Applications are now available for the AFT’s Robert G. Porter Scholars Program,
which offers four, four-year $8,000 scholarships to high school seniors who show
outstanding service to their community and an understanding of the role unions can
play to create a more just society. Applicants must be dependents of AFT members.
The program also awards 10 grants of $1,000 each to AFT members to assist in their
continuing education.
Since its inception in 1993, the Robert G. Porter Scholars Program has awarded
more than $550,000 to AFT members and their dependents to further their
education and to help achieve the goals of AFT – affiliated unions, such as UUP. The
scholarship program honors the late AFT secretary – treasurer, who served from
1963 to 1991.
Porter was a union activist who dedicated his life to championing the rights of
working people, promoting civil rights and ensuring that the union was a vehicle to
achieve justice.
The application deadline for students and members is March 31, 2016 (Midnight).
Third party responses for high school student applications are due by
April 15,2016.
For more information, go to http://bit.ly/1QKpYD5