Yellow Ribbon Program COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog

Yellow Ribbon Program COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog SIPA is proud to be a participant in the Yellow Ribbon Program, a financial aid opportunity under the Post-9/11 GI Bill.   Interested Veterans will need to complete two steps to qualify.   First is to file paperwork with the Department of Veterans Affairs and second is to submit a Web based form to SIPA.   The funding is based on a first-come, first-served basis and applicants will be ranked by when they apply for the program via the Web based form supplied by SIPA. We are currently working on getting the form set up and when we have more information on when it will become available we will post information to this blog as well as send an email to the email address supplied by applicants when they applied.   Stay tuned for more information.   A general overview of the program is available on the Columbia University Student Financial Services Web site. Yellow Ribbon Program COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog The Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs is pleased to announce the application for the Yellow Ribbon Program Scholarship, available to eligible veterans of the US Armed Forces, for the 2014/15 academic year. The Yellow Ribbon Program is an initiative authorized by the Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 (the Post-9/11 GI Bill) in which educational institutions provide eligible student veterans with a partial tuition waiver or grant matched by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. This program supplements the base educational benefits provided by the Post-9/11 GI Bill. To be eligible for the Yellow Ribbon Program, you must be a US veteran eligible for the maximum level (100%) of benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill according to your VA Certificate of Eligibility. If you are a veteran of the US Armed Forces and would like to learn more about eligibility for these benefits, please visit the GI Bill website at www.gibill.va.gov/. SIPA is committed to honoring those who have served our country by being one of seventeen individual schools at Columbia University participating in the Yellow Ribbon Program.     An application is required and will be available on our website by Monday June 9, 2014 at noon, Eastern Daylight Time. The application will be a Google document that is to be submitted online; no other documentation is required. Those who received a Yellow Ribbon scholarship at SIPA in the 2013/14 academic year and will be enrolled at SIPA for 2014/15 [and have maintained their eligibility] need not reapply, the award will be renewed in an amount based on available funding. SIPA cannot guarantee funding for every eligible candidate, and funding will be on a first come, first served basis, so please make sure that you complete the application no later than June 27, 2014.