Scholarships

You can apply to most of the following scholarships through the Scholarship Universe portal.

Scholarship Universe Instructions

Follow these five steps to apply for the College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences scholarships. Contact the Scholarship Universe team at OSFA-SU@arizona.edu for more information.

  1. Log in to Scholarship Universe with your university Net ID and password.
  2. Answer ALL questions asked in the PROFILE tab. This step may take up to 20 minutes. Your answers are used to match you to eligible scholarships year round.
  3. Look in the SCHOLARSHIPS tab and your ELIGIBLE folder for blue colored scholarships. Click on one to open it. U of A scholarships will be blue and non-U of A scholarships will be orange. Read the description to confirm it is from the College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences (CALES).
  4. Scroll down to the Apply Here section of the scholarship for application instructions. You will also see a ‘Bonus’ section that lists all the scholarships you will automatically apply for by submitting this application.
  5. Follow all the application instructions:
    1. Download the required CALES Scholarship Application Template from the scholarship's page. You must upload the completed application template and your resume to your DOCS tab. 
    2. Return to one of your CALES scholarships and select your documents from the appropriate drop-down bars in the Apply Here section. 
    3. Click the SUBMIT APPLICATION NOW button at the very bottom and all the scholarships in the bonus section will be moved to your APPLIED folder automatically. You are done!

Scholarship Listings

Glen Miller Scholarship

Glen M. Miller graduated from the University of Arizona in 1969 in the Department of Agricultural Education. He was hired by Mayer Public Schools to start the Vocational Agriculture Program. His wife, Elizabeth, was hired to teach 3rd grade. Mr. Miller started the Agriculture program in the rented Mayer State Bank building in downtown Mayer. He had one screw driver, one claw hammer, and all of the 4-H free materials he could obtain. The first year he taught science as well as agriculture as he built the program. By the third year all of the student body of Mayer High School enrolled in Vo. Ag. with the exception of one student. The 59 students rapidly gained a love of FFA and Vo. Ag. In the next 9 years the program produced state officers and many contest winners. Students were featured in two nationally produced films promoting FFA and Teaching. Your Land – Your Future and Hometown America featured Mr. Miller and the Mayer program.

Dr. Miller’s view of modern agriculture and agricultural education stands as solid now as it did when he was quoted in the 1972 Mayer High School year book. “ To many people, agriculture is considered only to be the product of plants and animals to provide food and fiber for the people of the world. However, agriculture is more extensive than that. Today, agriculture encompasses all the occupations where knowledge, skills, and abilities are necessary for a person to enter into the world of agriculture work. Agriculture includes farmers, ranchers, buyers, and sellers of agricultural products, agricultural mechanics, cowboys, inspectors, salesmen, chemists, teachers, scientists, economists and many other diversified occupations. The total picture of agriculture includes the pure and applied science necessary to get the raw materials onto the supper table. “

In 1981 Mr. Miller left Mayer to become the Director of the New Teacher Program for the Department of Agricultural Education at the U of A. In the next three years he helped first year teachers all over the state of Arizona and worked with Dr. Clinton O. Jacobs by assisting with laboratory instruction in agricultural mechanics.

In 1984 Mr. Miller and family left Tucson and he enrolled in the doctoral program at Mississippi State University. While there, in addition to being a full time student, Dr. Miller taught undergraduate classes in agricultural mechanics. Dr. Miller completed his doctorate in Agricultural Education in 1986 and was hired by the University of Arizona to teach agricultural mechanics and methods of agricultural education.

For the next 22 years Dr. Miller taught undergraduate and graduate classes in Agricultural Education. He developed new courses in Turf and Landscape Management and in Agricultural Power and Machinery. Dr. Miller taught numerous workshops for teachers. Dr. Miller was the superintendent of the State FFA Agricultural Mechanics Career Development event for 22 years.

Department: Agricultural Education Technology and Innovation

Criteria:

  • Agricultural Technology Management and Education Major
  • Entering junior or senior year
  • Preference towards students with a minimum 2.5 cumulative GPA
  • Preference towards students with financial need