Alabama Code 16-47-172. Scholarships; standards and requirements for admission
Terms Used In Alabama Code 16-47-172
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- year: means a calendar year; but, whenever the word "year" is used in reference to any appropriations for the payment of money out of the treasury, it shall mean fiscal year. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama is authorized and required to establish 10 scholarships for the benefit of 10 students in the school of social work. Each scholarship shall be in the amount of $1,800.00 per year. These scholarships shall be payable from the annual appropriation to the school of social work. To be eligible for one of these scholarships a person shall be a young man or woman of good character and shall have been accepted for matriculation by the authorities of the school of social work in accordance with the current standards and requirements of such school. These standards and requirements must, in turn, meet in every way the requirements for admission to an approved graduate school of social work. In awarding these scholarships, preference shall be given to applicants from counties in which there is a severe shortage of professionally trained social workers.