Tadlock Watson Scholarship

An endowed scholarship established by Sheryl T. Watson ‘65 and John R. Watson, Jr to support a scholarship with preference given to students with documented disabilities, with priority given to students with documented learning disabilities. The scholarship shall be awarded initially on the basis of financial need, as determined by the University’s Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships, however, financial need will not be a factor in the renewal of this scholarship for subsequent years. Preference will be given to students who are entering freshman. If there are no qualified entering freshmen, the scholarship may be awarded to students who are currently enrolled or to entering transfer students.

The scholarship will be renewed for as long as the student takes to complete a course of study sufficient to receive an undergraduate degree, so long as the student remains in good standing with the University and completes such studies within six years of entering the University. That is, for a freshman completing a first year of study at the University, this means that the scholarship may be renewed for up to five additional years, provided, however, that an exception to this limitation may be applicable for situations in which a student attending the University on a plan approved by the University’s Office of Disability Services may require more than six years to complete degree requirements – and, in such cases, the six-year maximum term for this scholarship shall be waived.

This scholarship shall assist students by displacing other forms of non-grant aid – to the extent that the available scholarship funds allow – beginning first with work-study aid, then student loans, and other such aid.

Please note that a student should not receive this scholarship assistance in excess of the annual cost of attendance at Madison. Therefore, in any such year – in which the needs of the primary Tadlock-Watson Scholar(s) may be met in full and there are available scholarship funds remaining, it may be that such remaining scholarship funds would be awarded to additional eligible students – perhaps for just that one year – until all scholarship funds available for disbursement in the particular year are expended.

Also, this scholarship shall not be used by the federal government to offset federal government assistance to which a student may be entitled or for which a student may be eligible that is not necessarily associated with or dependent upon the student’s enrollment at Madison (e.g. the US Social Security Administration’s SSI program).

This scholarship will be administered by the Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships, in coordination with the University’s Office of Disability Services;