Norrine Bailey Spencer
Scholarship Award

Norrine Bailey Spencer

 

Investing in Virginia's Next Generation of Women Leaders

The Norrine Bailey Spencer Scholarship provides financial assistance to help make participation in the Senior Leadership Seminar more accessible. Depending on available funding and the applicant pool, awards may include full or partial tuition assistance.

 

Established by the ACE Women's Network Virginia, the scholarship honors Norrine Bailey Spencer's extraordinary commitment to mentoring women leaders and strengthening higher education throughout the Commonwealth.

 

About Norrine Bailey Spencer

The Virginia Network advances women by providing programs that build professional networks and support the development of women in all sectors of higher education in the Commonwealth. To help achieve these goals, the Executive Board of the Virginia Network invites applications for the Norrine Bailey Spencer Scholarship.

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The Norrine Bailey Spencer Scholarship is awarded to a participant in the Virginia Network’s Senior Leadership Seminar. Norrine Bailey Spencer, an administrator at Virginia Tech for thirty years, served on the Network’s Executive Board from 1988 to 2008. As one of the earliest members of the Network board, Norrine contributed greatly to the organizational wisdom and glue that has held the board together over the past twenty years, and she gave it a solid foundation on which we continue to build. Norrine mentored dozens of women through the Network, but her reach went far beyond this organization to touch the lives of many others through her work in civic, college, and religious organizations. Upon her departure from the board in 2008, Norrine was presented the gift of this named scholarship, recognizing and celebrating her passion for the Virginia Network’s mission in general and her devotion to the Senior Leadership Seminar program in particular.

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The Norrine Bailey Spencer Scholarship will be awarded to a confirmed participant in the Senior Leadership Seminar. The full tuition award is need-based, and preference will be given to applicants from institutions that are traditionally underrepresented in the Seminar.

 

Scholarship Details

The Norrine Bailey Spencer Scholarship provides financial assistance to participants in the Senior Leadership Seminar. Depending on available funding and the applicant pool, awards may cover full or partial tuition. The selection committee may choose to support multiple participants in a given year to expand access to the program.

 

• Financial assistance toward Senior Leadership Seminar tuition

• Awards may be full or partial tuition

• Based on demonstrated financial need

• Available to confirmed Senior Leadership Seminar participants

• Preference may be given to applicants from institutions traditionally underrepresented in the Seminar

• One or more awards may be made each year, depending on available funding and the applicant pool

 

How to Apply

Confirmed Participants receive scholarship information following acceptance into the Senior Leadership Seminar.

 

Applications are reviewed by the ACE Women's Network Virginia SLS Committee.