Finanical Aid Division
Law Enforcement Officers' Dependents Scholarship
Date Updated: November 15, 2006
The Law Enforcement Officers’ (LEO) Dependents Scholarship program provides an eight-semester scholarship to any state-supported college, university, or technical institute in Arkansas to dependents of Arkansas residents in one of the categories below who were killed or permanently disabled in the line-of-duty:
- Law enforcement officers
- Full-time or volunteer firefighters
- Municipal and/or college or university police officers
Sheriffs or deputy sheriffs
- Constables
- Game Wardens
- Certain Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department employees
- State forestry employees engaged in fighting forest fires
- State correction employees killed or totally disabled due to contact with inmates or parolees
- State park employees who are commissioned law enforcement officers or emergency response employees
- Emergency Medical Technicians
- Department of Community Punishment employees
The scholarship will pay the cost of tuition, fees and dormitory room charges when provided in campus-owned facilities. The scholarship will not pay the cost of books, food, school supplies and materials, or fees for extracurricular activities.
Dependent children are eligible to receive benefits for eight semesters and must be less than twenty-three (23) years of age on or before the first day of the semester or quarter. Spouses are entitled to an eight-semester scholarship. The spouse will no longer be eligible if he or she re-marries. The benefits will cease at the end of the semester in which the spouse is currently enrolled at the time of the re-marriage.
Call (501) 371-2050 or (800) 54-STUDY for additional information.
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