About Us
Office of Scholarships and Financial Wellness
About Us
Office of Scholarships and Financial Wellness (SFW) offers generous scholarship support
to scholars, leaders, National Merit Semifinalists and Finalists and more - more than
$23 million each year.
The Office of Scholarships and Financial Wellness, in alignment with The University of Southern Mississippi, aspires to be a student-centered office by offering a welcoming environment and
preparing a diverse student population to embark on meaningful life endeavors by educating
the community on college costs and financial opportunities.
We also understand additional community and economic barriers that students face prior
to, during, and after college. We collect student data to assess the financial landscape
of USM's population to help identify scholarship, grant, and resource opportunities
to help improve the financial well-being of our Southern Miss community.
SFW provides a hub for scholarship and financial resource information to support all students at The University of Southern Mississippi.
SFW provides a hub for scholarship and financial resource information to support all students at The University of Southern Mississippi.
Our main objectives are to:
- Provide a centralized hub of scholarship information and financial resources to help with college affordability.
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Work with community and campus partners to identify free and credible financial resources to support the financial well-being of our students, faculty, and staff.
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Provide student-centered customer service, accuracy, and efficiency when awarding incoming and continuing scholarships.
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Practice fair and consistent policies when monitoring and maintaining current scholarship awards.
The mission of OUS is supported by the following values:
- Learning. SFW fosters personal growth, professional development, and a lifelong commitment to wellness specially focusing on financial literacy.
- Collaboration. SFW values connections with faculty, staff, and students to ensure fair and consistent policies and procedures are followed during the awarding process.
- Inclusion. SFW values an inclusive scholarship community of people that embraces the diversity of people and ideas.
- Responsibility. SFW promotes social responsibility and citizenship by requiring undergraduate scholarship recipients to uphold the Code of Student Conduct.
Staff
- Assistant Director of Operations and Development: Jasmine Coleman-Miller
- Assistant Director of Scholarships & Financial Wellness: Hector Talavera
- Coordinator of Scholarships & Financial Wellness: Jacob Nelson