Applications for the $1,000 Warren Jake Wicker Scholarship Undergraduate Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are being accepted until May 1, 2011.  

The scholarship is awarded annually to a rising high school senior who is accepted to attend UNC-Chapel Hill and has least one parent who has been continuously employed full-time by a North Carolina city or county government for at least five years prior to January 1, 2011.

Applications must be received by the UNC Office of Scholarships and Student Aid on or before May 1, 2011. For information and an application form, contact Torie Davis Forte at torie_forte@unc.edu or (919) 843-1619, or Ann Simpson at simpson@sog.unc.edu or (919) 966-9780.  The Wicker scholarship is awarded based on relative financial need and academic promise.

The scholarship was created by the 1990 Municipal and County Administration class to honor the course director, Jake Wicker, a member of the School of Government faculty for 48 years.