Honor Roll: Underrepresented Minority Scholarships that changed their eligibility policies towards Pacific Islanders

After completing our national study last year, we've directed our attention to educating  underrepresented minority programs about the need to open up their programs to Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. Since then, five thirteen scholarships have changed their policies, and while we've thanked them already, we're doing it again by adding them to our "Honor Roll" of programs that made the right decision.  Together these programs represent an average of over $1,100,000 in financial aid each year.

We hope that more programs will follow their lead: 

HONOR ROLL

• HBCU Minority Scholarship
• Actuarial Diversity Scholarship
• National Medical Fellowships Emergency Scholarship Fund
• National Medical Fellowships Need Based Scholarship Program
• University of Illinois at Chicago Martin Luther King Jr Scholarship 
• Diversifying Faculty in Illinois Program (added August 24, 2013)
• University of Illinois at Chicago Abraham Lincoln Graduate Fellowship (added Sept. 7, 2013)
• AICPA Scholarship for Minority Students (added September 21, 2013)
• University of Missouri George C Brooks Scholarship (added September 30, 2013)
• University of Missouri Diversity Award (added September 30, 2013)
• Semiconductor Research Corporation Masters Scholarship Program (added October 5, 2013)
• Arthur Schomburg Fellowship Program, Buffalo State University of New York (added October 20, 2013) 
• University of Missouri Transition Grant: (added November 1, 2013)