North Carolina Jail Administrators’ Association

The NORTH CAROLINA JAIL ADMINISTRATORS’ ASSOCIATION is offering cash scholarships to eligible students who are currently enrolled or who have been accepted into an accredited college or university to study criminal justice-related courses.

Eligibility Requirements

To be eligible for consideration, the student must:

1. Be a member or the immediate family member (son, step-son, daughter, step-daughter or spouse) of a member of the North Carolina Jail Administrators’ Association. (Does not include Associate Members.)
2. The student must be enrolled in a Criminal Justice or related course of study in an accredited college, university or technical school.
3. The student must be engaged in or seeking a full-time career in detention, corrections, law enforcement, law or another criminal justice-related field.
4. The student may be required to appear for a personal interview before the Scholarship Committee.

To Apply

The student must complete a scholarship application and forward it (along with all required information) to the North Carolina Jail Administrators’ Association Scholarship Committee. The packet must be mailed to the following address and postmarked on or before September 1, 2010:

Elaine Christian, Executive Director
North Carolina Jail Administrators’ Association.
Scholarship Committee
Post Office Box 41368
Raleigh, NC 27629

The North Carolina Jail Administrators’ Association will award a cash grant up to $1,000.00 at the discretion of the scholarship committee. The decision of the Scholarship Committee is final.

Download application (.pdf)