AmeriCorps Scholarship Program
About AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps is a service scholarship opportunity available to all students in the final and licensure year of the education programs offered at the University of Utah. This includes all students in the Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education programs.
As students in their final year in the education programs are completing their student teaching requirement, the AmeriCorps Scholarship is a way to reimburse them for their time and effort. Students are not getting paid for the any working and service hours they contribute to their school and the community, which often adds up to over 4o hours per week. The AmeriCorps award is a thank-you for their time, energy, resources, and service they have provided.
As all licensure students are eligible to participate in the AmeriCorps Program, an AmeriCorps coordinator will be visiting your Action Research/Seminar and Field Practicum classes.
For questions regarding AmeriCorps, you may contact our AmeriCorps coordinators, Matt Schulz and Jill Hinckley, at uite@utah.edu or 801-581-7158.
For Current AmeriCorps Members:
All AmeriCorps Forms and Time Logs can be accessed here.
As Reminders:
- Enrollment must be completed within 30 days.
- If you are experiencing problems with the AmeriCorps website, please let the coordinators know as soon as possible.
- You cannot record any hours before your official Enrollment date.
- Turn in Time Logs by the 5th of each month.
- Complete the Reflections portion of each time log each month. If this is not filled out, we will ask you to re-do it.
- Signatures on all paperwork must be original, not photocopied, scanned, or faxed. All time logs must have both yours and your site teachers signatures.
- No more than 20% of total service hours may be from Member Development Hours. Please do not go over this limit. If you do, we will not count those hours and you will need to re-do your time log.
- No Fundraising Hours will be completed for this scholarship.
- There is a limit of 12 service hours per day, 60 hours per week.
- Do not log Direct Service Hours on Sundays or holidays.
- Before the coordinators can begin recording your hours, you must turn in your Service Summary and Proof of Eligibility forms. Without these, we cannot verify your eligibility or service site.
