CV NEWS FEED // For the second consecutive year, the Foundation for the Restoration of America (FFROA) has partnered with CatholicVote in seeking applications for FFROA’s free Constitutional Study Program, where students can apply for up to $10,000 in scholarships.
The deadline to apply for the first round of scholarships this year is Sunday, June 30 at midnight. Winners will be announced Monday, September 2.
There will also be a second round of scholarships with an application deadline of midnight on Tuesday, December 31. Winners from this round are set to be announced Monday, March 3, 2025.
“There is a need for a citizenry educated in the core body of knowledge about what makes America exceptional, and our vision is to restore a prideful history in the education of our young Americans,” FFROA states on the scholarship’s webpage.
“We invite you to learn about America’s founding through our FREE online Constitutional program and apply for a scholarship,” it continues.
FFROA plans to award a total of 39 individual scholarships this year, including two $10,000 scholarships, two $5,000 scholarships, and 35 $2,000 scholarships.
The website outlines: “To qualify for a $2,000 scholarship: Simply complete both the Introduction to the Constitution and the Constitution 101 course provided by Hillsdale College, download your Certificates of Completion, and apply.”
To qualify for a $5,000 or $10,000 scholarship, applicants must fulfill all the requirements for the two course $2,000 scholarship plus the completion of “one additional free online course offered by Hillsdale College.”
For this third course, applicants can chose from the following courses: The U.S. Supreme Court, The Federalist Papers, The Presidency and the Constitution, Congress: How it Worked and Why It Doesn’t, and Constitution 201: The Progressive Rejection of the Founding and the Rise of Bureaucratic Despotism.
All of the aforementioned courses are free.
FFROA notes that to be an eligible applicant for either scholarship, a student “must be an American citizen, age 16 or older, and currently enrolled in public or private high school, homeschool, college/university, or trade school.”
Applicants can apply once per semester although they are “only eligible to receive one scholarship.”
“So, if you applied and did not win a scholarship, you are eligible to apply for the next round or any round thereafter,” the website elaborates.
Recent FFROA scholarship winners have reflected on their experience as a valuable one which taught them the value of the United States’ founding principles.
“[A]s an American citizen, I have a calling to personally preserve freedom here and now – the same calling that every citizen is faced with,” said Elise Degeeter, who won a $10,000 scholarship.
$5,000 scholarship winner Benjamin Joerger agreed, stating, “The American people have the power to protect and advance their God-given right, yet few understand and utilize that power.”
“The principles and declarations made in the Constitution rest on the idea that the consent of the governed is what gives the government its power,” he added.
“One way we can protect the freedoms in the Constitution is by electing representatives who will stand firm on their convictions rather than caving to public pressure,” said $2,000 scholarship winner Hannah Bishop.
“Instead of giving away the intangible treasure of freedom, it must be cherished,” emphasized Christopher Sepka, the winner of a $2,000 scholarship. “It must be guarded from the thieves that lurk at every corner.”
