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GRADUATE PROGRAMSFinancing Your DegreeScholarshipsStephen Weinrib Memorial ScholarshipThe Stephen Weinrib Memorial Scholarship Fund is a newly established scholarship to assist graduate students within the College of Criminal Justice. Established by Mrs. Donna Weinrib Cohn, the scholarship honors the late Mr. Weinrib's strong commitment to higher education. The purpose of this award is to aid graduate students in good academic standing who may be experiencing financial difficulty. This Fund is designed to assist one or two students with graduate school related expenses: textbooks, lab materials or computer peripherals. The Fund has been established in the amount of 2,000. Each year, depending upon need, the review committee will decide whether to award the scholarship to one or two recipients. Candidates must be: 1) entering their second or third semester of graduate work at the College; 2) be in good academic standing here at the College, and 3) demonstrate some financial need and what they would use the funds toward. Students will be contacted either by phone or email if they have been selected to receive the scholarship. An awards ceremony will take place at some time in the spring semester.
How to Apply: Students will be contacted either by phone or email if they have been selected to receive the scholarship. An awards ceremony will take place at some time in the spring semester. Ruffin Society ScholarshipGeorge Lewis Ruffin was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1834 to George W. and Nancy L. Ruffin, free blacks, who moved to Boston with their eight children in 1853. Ruffin graduated from the Chapman Hall School and married Josephine St. Pierre of Boston in 1858, making his living as a barber. Within six years, he had published a review in the Anglo-African, a black weekly published in New York, and served as a delegate to the 1864 National Negro Convention in Syracuse, New York, which demanded black suffrage and supported Lincoln’s re-election. Continuing his barbering, Ruffin read law with the firm of Jewell Gaston and was admitted to Harvard Law School, which did not then require a college degree. He graduated in 1869, the first black to graduate from a university law school and obtain a law degree. Ruffin was admitted to the Suffolk County bar the same year, and joined the firm of Harvey Jewell. He and Jewell won seats in 1869 and 1870 in the state legislature, where Ruffin focused on the violence in the South. In 1876 and 1877, he was elected to the Boston Common Council and continued his attendance at Negro conventions. Ruffin was appointed as judge of a municipal court in Charlestown in 1883, the same year in which he was appointed counsel resident in Boston for the Dominican Republic. George Lewis Ruffin and his wife were among the more prominent black citizens in Boston. Ruffin, was the first president of the Wendell Phillips Club of Boston, and a member and one-time president of the Banneker Literary Club of Boston. For twelve years he was superintendent and an important officer of the Twelfth Baptist Church of Boston. He died in Boston in 1886, survived by his widow, three sons, and a daughter. About the Ruffin Society
The Justice George Lewis Ruffin Minority Fellowship Program Each Ruffin Fellow receives a stipend and full tuition waiver for the duration of the Fellowship Program. Asian Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, Latino/as, and Native Americans are eligible. Applicants must be U.S. citizens who hold or will receive a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university prior to the start of the academic year for which the Fellowship is requested. Ruffin fellowship application as a Word file and as a PDF
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