Preamble University scholarships should operate with unanimity of purpose in support of excellence, and with close cooperation among functional program components from fund acquisition through student recruitment and recipient selection to award processing. It is the purpose of this document to provide a frame of reference for academic scholarships while addressing in greater detail some policy and procedural matters of academic concern.
Students are the raison d'etre of any university.
Ultimately, they establish the norms of quality. At a great university, they must be good when they come in and noticeably better when they leave. As a major facet of Penn State's commitment to the basic principle of the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 that education should be available to all who could qualify for it regardless of class or financial position. The legitimate preferences of our scholarship fund donors shall be observed. The Pennsylvania State University does not discriminate in academic scholarship selection on the basis of age, health, sex, marital status, number of children, etc.