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Undergraduate Scholarships
Scholarships remain Notre Dame’s top fundraising priority. By underwriting tuition and related expenses, scholarship benefactors ensure that the Notre Dame experience is affordable for every deserving student—regardless of his or her ability to pay.
Moreover, because roughly 83 percent of Notre Dame undergraduates are Catholic, endowing a scholarship means that you are helping to educate some of the nation’s most promising young Catholics.
Benefactors may endow a scholarship at the following levels:
- Premier: $5,000,000
- Presidential: $1,000,000
- Distinguished: $500,000
- Prize: $250,000
- Named: $100,000
Scholarships will be named at the donor’s behest: for example, the Lucille and Paul O’Brien Scholarship.
With the consent of the donor, appropriate recognition will be offered, including the listing of the benefactor’s name on the Scholarships and Fellowships Recognition Wall on campus, invitations to special recognition events, annual reports, and regular correspondence with scholarship recipients.
To learn more about endowing a scholarship, please contact us.
Kerry Kilbourn, Class of 2007
With the assistance of the James F. Andrews Memorial Scholarship, Kerry Kilbourn was able to participate in a Center for Social Concerns Summer Service Project Internship Learning Program at the Bay Cliff Health Camp in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. “It’s a therapy camp for kids with disabilities,” she says, “and I learned so much there.”
If not for the Andrews Scholarship, Kerry might have had to trade the internship experience for a summer job. It would have been a major sacrifice: as a science preprofessional major now applying to medical school, the chance to work at a medical camp provided Kerry with not only insight into her future profession, but also a distinct competitive advantage in the application process.
The James F. Andrews Memorial Scholarship was established by Notre Dame Trustee Kathleen W. Andrews (’62 MS), vice chairman of Andrews McMeel Universal, and her business partner, John P. McMeel, the company’s chairman and president. The scholarship honors the memory Kathleen’s late husband, James (’61), by funding more than 150 Summer Service Learning Program students annually through Notre Dame’s renowned Center for Social Concerns.
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