Vermont Law & Graduate School Expands Scholarship Access for Indigenous Students
An article in Tribal Business News by Brian Edwards, published May 17, 2023
A private law and public policy graduate school in central Vermont is making one of its scholarships available to members of state-recognized tribes for the first time.
South Royalton, Vt.-based Vermont Law and Graduate School said its First Nations Scholarship will provide full or partial tuition scholarships to one or more Indigenous candidates each year. The scholarship’s purpose is to enable Native students to pursue careers in any of the programs offered by the school, including legal degrees from its law school and master’s degrees offered by the graduate school and its School for the Environment.
Previously, the First Nations Scholarship was only available to members of federally recognized tribes. Moving forward, the scholarship will also be accessible to students from state-recognized tribes, including the four Abenaki tribes whose ancestral homelands are located in what is now Vermont.