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The Reilly Scholarship Program
for
Arts & Letters/Engineering Students
In a world increasingly challenged by new developments
in technology and science, it is particularly important
that those most intimately engaged in the creation and
implementation of technology have the opportunity to reflect
as broadly as possible on the world their technical work
will transform.
The University of Notre Dame’s Five Year Dual-Degree
Program in Arts and Letters /Engineering (AL/ENG)is a distinctive
one in American higher education. Established in the 1960’s,
the program enables engineering students to combine professional
training in a field of engineering with a richer experience
of humanistic, artistic, and social scientific perspectives
than normally would be possible within the confines of a
four year engineering degree program. To achieve its goals,
the AL/ENG Program requires of students who elect to pursue
it five full academic years of study. However those who
complete the Program receive, in turn, two degrees, a Bachelor
of Science degree in engineering and a Bachelor of Arts
degree in arts and letters.
In 1985 an alumnus of the AL/ENG Program, Mr. John D. Reilly
(BA 1963, BS Engineering 1964) presented the University
with an endowment in honor of his father to support special
scholarships to be awarded to students enrolled in the AL/ENG
Program. The relatively high costs of a Notre Dame education
make the commitment to five, rather than four, years of
academic study a difficult one for students who must rely
on financial aid to cover the expense of their college education.
Students at Notre Dame enrolled in accredited five-year
programs (e.g., architecture and AL/ENG) have the same entitlement
to undergraduate financial aid from the University during
their fifth year, as they did during their first four years.
Much of that aid, however, is available only in the form
of additional loans and/or campus employment. By contrast,
the Reilly Scholarship Program is in a position to make
available scholarship dollars in place of non-scholarship
aid for qualifying AL/ENG students, not only during their
fifth and final year, but during earlier years as well.
In recent years as many as twenty-two AL/ENG students annually
have received Reilly Scholarship support.
The focus of the Reilly Scholarship Program continues to
be on students preparing to enter their fifth, and final,
year in the AL/ENG Program. From each rising fifth year
class several members are designated Reilly Scholars in
honor of noteworthy academic and extra-curricular achievement
throughout their careers as AL/ENG students. Along with
outstanding students representing other University programs,
Reilly Scholars receive public recognition of their awards
at Commencement. In addition, Reilly Scholars receive preference
in the awarding of scholarship dollars in support of their
fifth year of study. (A student selected as a Reilly Scholar
who is ineligible for additional need-based financial aid
still receives a generous monetary honorarium.) But whether
or not a fifth year AL/ENG student is selected to become
a Reilly Scholar, each member of the class remains eligible
to receive substantial Reilly scholarship support.
The selection of Reilly Scholars and decisions about fifth
year financial aid distribution, are made in the spring
of the senior year. They are based on students’ academic
and financial aid records and a personal interview conducted
by a small faculty committee late in the spring semester.
Seniors who wish to be eligible for financial aid in the
fifth year must submit an official Financial Aid Form to
the Undergraduate Office of Financial Aid as soon as possible
in the spring of their senior year. (Indeed, it is strongly
recommended that all fourth year AL/ENG students submit
the FAF even if they have not previously qualified for University
financial aid.)
Students seriously interested in participating in the AL/ENG
Program must begin no later than their sophomore year to
prepare for this opportunity by carefully planning their
required and elective coursework, and choosing majors in
Engineering and in Arts and Letters. Consultation with Associate
Dean John Uhran in the College of Engineering, as well as
with Assistant Dean Ava Preacher in the College of Arts
and Letters, is essential in planning your curriculum and
in officially registering for enrollment in the AL/ENG Program.
To encourage early enrollment in AL/ENG, the Reilly Scholarship
Program offers modest, need based scholarships to currently
enrolled AL/ENG students in the junior and senior years.
To establish eligibility for consideration, newly enrolled
sophomores and juniors are asked to schedule appointments
during the spring semester with the Director of the University’s
Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values, who is
responsible for overseeing the Scholarship Program.
CONTACT INFORMATION
The Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values
346 O’Shaughnessy Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame IN 46556
574.631.5015
reilly.31@nd.edu
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