Locke Scholarship
Policy
The
purpose of this policy is to set the procedures for the award and administration
of the Locke Scholarship Program.
The Corvallis Rural Fire Protection District may provide scholarships to
qualified students assigned as intern firefighters at the Locke Fire Station and
under the Corvallis Fire Department Volunteer Program.
Scholarships are to encourage professional and academic development of
these intern firefighters.
Interested parties may submit an application to the Corvallis Fire Department
Lieutenant in charge and overseeing the operation of the Locke Fire Station.
Eligibility
To be
eligible for a Locke Scholarship an applicant must:
Interns at Locke Fire Station
who voluntarily or involuntarily separate from the Corvallis Fire Department
Volunteer Program or fail to maintain the “eligibility requirements” listed
above may owe a reimbursement of their full scholarship to the Corvallis Rural
Fire Protection District for the term/semester affected.
This is to be judged and determined by the Corvallis Rural Fire
Protection District Board.
Scholarships will be awarded on a “credit hours taken” basis.
Interns enrolled in twelve (12) or more credit hours per term/semester
will receive a scholarship award of $2,000.00, up to four (4) terms or three (3)
semesters per year. Interns enrolled
in less than twelve (12) credit hours will be awarded a prorated amount at
$166.67 per credit hour. (Example:
An intern enrolled in ten (10) credit hours will receive an award of $1,666.70)
Interns must take a minimum of two (2) credit hours to apply for a
scholarship during any one term.
Scholarship awards will not be made for courses that have been repeated and for
which an award was earned during past terms/semesters.
Scholarship awards will be distributed at the end of each term/semester and will
be based on an intern’s official enrollment in college level courses.
Interns who begin their residency at the Locke Fire Station after the
school term/semester starts will receive an award on a prorated basis.
(Example: An Intern who
begins his/her residency four (4) weeks into an (8) week term/semester will
receive half (1/2) of the scholarship amount determined by the formula in the
paragraph above.)
Interns may
appeal to the station lieutenant for an early award of a scholarship.
This is an exception to the timing requirements.
If in agreement, the lieutenant will then
take the appeal to the Corvallis Rural Fire Protection District Board or its
designated member(s)
for a personal
review. (Example:
Some students may need to pay their tuition for the next term/semester
well in advance of the reporting of grades for the completed term/semester.
This practice has already been established as an exception to the rule.
Another exception would be a hardship situation.)
Before an intern can receive an advance on a scholarship, he/she must go
before the Corvallis Rural Fire Protection Board or its designated member(s) and
state their case. (Appearing for a
personal case review is a one-time event and will carry forward to future
scholarship advances.) The intern
will sign a promissory note for each advancement of scholarship funds.
The note will become null and void after the successful reporting of
term/semester grades and compliance with the standards above.
Reporting Requirements
Interns
will be expected to report to the lieutenant any credit hours that they add,
drop, withdraw from or fail to pass during the term/semester.
At the end
of each term/semester, interns will provide a copy of their final grades to the
Locke Fire Station Lieutenant for review and compliance with the standards set
above. The lieutenant will then
report the grades to a selected Corvallis Rural Fire Protection District Board
Member before scholarships for that term/semester will be awarded.
The
undersigned hereby applies to be a participant in the Corvallis Rural Fire
Protection District’s Locke Scholarship Program.
I affirm that I am admitted to and in good standing with the Corvallis
Fire Department Volunteer Program and understand the conditions of the Locke
Scholarship Policy set forth above:
Dated:
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Signature
Attest:
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