Draft 2025-26 Scholarships & Awards

The School of Education is pleased to announce the following scholarships and awards available for Education majors and minors for the 2025-2026 academic year:

  • The Frances Blumenthal Memorial Award
  • The Barbara and Sandford Cohen Graduate Scholarship
  • The Colucci/Stoler History Scholarship Gift Award
  • The Florence Einstein Scholarship
  • The Bertram Epstein Memorial Prize for Excellence in Educational Research
  • The Irwin & Ruth Fleischner Scholarship
  • The Dr. Jerry Gelbwachs Fellowship in Science Education
  • The Jack Holman Memorial Scholarship
  • The Immigrant to Immigrant Scholarship
  • The Raymond Klein Memorial Scholarship
  • The Dr. Harold Kobliner Textbook Scholarship
  • The Barbara Krames-Cohen Undergraduate Scholarship
  • The Sylvia Liss Award
  • The Merck Workshop: Education Award
  • The Jack and Rhoda Resnick Scholarship
  • The Joseph Schur Mathematics Prize
  • The Orsa Patchoros Velivasakis EXCELLENCE in Education Award
  • The Lillian Weber Scholarship
  • The Howard Wexler Scholarship
  • The Mary Wuensch Memorial Award for the School of Education 
  • The Pauline Yee Bing Chan Mei (1966) Memorial Scholarship 

Open Application Period: December 22, 2025 to January 11, 2026
Applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 PM on January 11th.

Applying for Scholarships

If you are interested in applying for a School of Education scholarship, the application and award process will be different this year.  It will be managed through the new award management system, Academic Works. Please take a moment to sign up for Academic Works and apply for School of Education scholarships.

Once you have created your account, make sure to complete and submit all questions on the General Application, which will automatically pull your CUNYFirst information and match you to scholarships for which you are eligible. Then complete an application for each of the School of Education scholarships that interests you.

Selecting Award Recipients

As applications are entered, the Scholarship Committee will review them to verify eligibility and begin to evaluate the applications. The committee or Academic Works may reach out to applicants who need to submit additional documents or answer additional questions.  Applicants should check their Citymail email regularly, so they don’t miss these important messages. All messages related to School of Education scholarships will have the subject line, School of Education Awards Information. Applicants who fail to respond to these emails, risk losing the opportunity to win an award.

Once the deadline to submit scholarship applications has passed, the scholarship committee will review all applications, supporting documents, and transcripts and select the best candidates for each award. Those candidates will then be vetted by the finance office to verify that they are eligible to receive the awards.

Notifying Award Recipients

Once cleared to receive an award, students will receive an email from Academic Works, requesting that they accept the award and complete and submit all required paperwork on the Academic Works platform. 

For questions related to the School of Education scholarships, please contact Margaret Schehl at mschehl@ccny.cuny.edu .

For problems with Academic Works, plea​se contact the CCNY Scholarship Office at ccnyscholarapp@ccny.cuny.edu or Andrea O. Ojeda, the CCNY Scholarship Coordinator at aojeda@ccny.cuny.edu .

Last Updated: 12/23/2025 17:37