Betsy Wilson from the FICPA has reached out with the following opportunity:

The James Wilcox Endowment (Wilcox) established through the FICPA Scholarship Foundation (SF) is offering African-American 4^th year accounting students who are FICPA members the opportunity to pursue their postgraduate accounting education. The Endowment has allocated six (6) $5,000 scholarships for three (3) male and three (3) female accounting students from accredited Florida colleges and universities that have 5^th Year or Master’s Programs. African-American 4^th year accounting students who are currently completing their senior year and will be enrolled as a 5^th year or Master’s Program student for the upcoming 2018-2019 academic year, beginning with the fall 2018 semester, should be encouraged to apply for this scholarship.

HOW TO APPLY
Students can apply online and upload their official transcripts and other requested documents at scholarships.ficpa.org/. This year, applicants are required to arrange for at least one faculty member to submit a letter of recommendation. A sample recommendation form is enclosed. It is the student’s responsibility to download the form while completing the online application and arrange for a faculty member to send us their completed recommendation (any accounting faculty member). Note: This faculty recommendation is in addition to overall scholarship recommendations by your school’s scholarship advisory committee The deadline for students to submit online applications is March 15^th. If this deadline does not work with your academic calendar, contact us immediately.

CRITERIA
Attached are updated scholarship criteria for these awards (pay particular attention to the GPA/course requirements, residency requirements and to the information on full and part-time scholarships) and Wilcox Scholarship Selection Procedures for your information.

PROMOTION
Your assistance is requested in distributing the enclosed flyer to increase student awareness of these scholarship opportunities. The Board of Trustees is looking for exceptional students, with real financial need, who will remain in Florida to practice.

DEADLINES & PROCESS
In March, you will receive a link for viewing all scholarship applicants from your school. In May, the SF Scholarship Allocation and Application Review Committee will review the student applications and your faculty recommendations. At its June meeting, our Board of Trustees will vote on the recommendations and award recipients will be announced. 

Please submit your letter of recommendations no later than April 15, 2018 to Betsy Wilson at betsy@ficpa.org or 3800 Esplanade Way, Suite 210, Tallahassee, FL 32311. This deadline is firm. Mrs. Wilson may be contacted at 850-224-2727, ext. 0 or betsy@ficpa.org if you have any questions regarding the scholarship selection process.

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