About the Scholarship
Sixteen partial college scholarships of $4,000 each are being offered for the 2025-2026 school year. Winners, selected in a lottery drawing, also will receive second-year scholarships of the same amount contingent upon satisfactory academic accomplishment. Part-time students, less than 12 credits, will receive half of the scholarship monies.
Eligible for the awards are CWA members and their spouses, children and grandchildren, including those of retired or deceased members.
Eligibility
CWA members, their spouses, children and grandchildren (including dependents of laid-off, retired or deceased CWA members) may apply. Applicants must be high school graduates or at least high school students who will graduate during the year in which they apply. Undergraduate and graduate students returning to schooling may also apply. Prior winners may not reapply.
Dates
Applications are accepted during the months of November through April. Final deadline for the 2025-2026 school year is April 30, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
To apply for the scholarship please click here.
CT AFL-CIO Scholarship
Each year in April, we gather together for Workers Memorial Day to honor the memory of those workers who have lost their lives on the job. During the ceremonies, we speak of the sacrifices made by these workers and of the families left behind, and we are inspired to work harder on behalf of all workers.
This year, the Connecticut AFL-CIO Health and Safety Committee is again offering a scholarship essay contest to inspire public high school seniors to think about the importance of workplace health and safety.
In this scholarship essay contest, public high school seniors in Connecticut are asked to respond in 1,000 words or less to one of the scenarios below with serious thought, research and most importantly, awareness of the true cost of workplace hazards on the lives of workers. Entries will be judged anonymously on content, originality and clarity of vision.
The essay topics this year include reflecting on a significant health and safety event in Connecticut’s history, how government safety agencies protect workers, and how climate change impacts worker health and safety. Students are asked to seriously think about the importance of workplace health and safety, and the consequences that arise when workers are forced to toil in unsafe working conditions.
- 1st Prize: $2,000
- 2nd Prize: $1,500
- 3rd Prize: $1,000
