Fall 2025 BOLD Scholars Application

University of North Georgia's Building Outstanding Leadership Development (BOLD) Scholarship Program Application

Deadline: February 28th, 2025

Our Building Outstanding Leadership Development (BOLD) Program is designed to cultivate our students’ exceptional leadership skills, empower individuals to reach their full potential, and equip students with the skills necessary to effectively lead both at the University of North Georgia (UNG) and beyond.

Why join BOLD?

Empowerment: Gain access to exclusive leadership development opportunities designed to enhance skills, expand networks, and amplify impact.
Support: Receive financial support through an academic scholarship and personalized mentorship from UNG student leaders, faculty, staff, and community members who are invested in student success and personal growth.
Opportunity: Unlock access to student leadership positions, student employment, internships, and more.
Community: Become a part of a strong community of BOLD Scholars who support and uplift each other on their leadership journey.

Program Objectives:
Through this scholarship program, students will:

Develop Self-Awareness: Enhance participants' understanding of their strengths, weaknesses, values, and leadership style to foster self-awareness and personal growth.
Build Leadership Competencies: Equip participants with essential leadership competencies such as communication, decision-making, conflict resolution, strategic thinking, and emotional intelligence.
Foster Team Collaboration: Cultivate skills for building and leading high-performing teams, including effective delegation, motivation, coaching, and fostering a culture of trust and collaboration.
Lead with Purpose: Inspire participants to lead with purpose, integrity, and ethics, aligning personal and organizational values to create meaningful impact.
Cultivate Resilience: Provide strategies for managing stress, overcoming adversity, and maintaining resilience in the face of challenges, enabling leaders to thrive in dynamic environments.
Sustain Leadership Growth: Offer ongoing support, coaching, and opportunities for reflection and feedback to sustain leadership growth beyond the program duration.

Scholarship Information

The BOLD Program scholarship annually awards up to 30 first-year UNG students with a $5,000 scholarship per year ($2,500 per semester) or up to cost of attendance. This scholarship is one way that UNG rewards incoming students for their leadership experience prior to attending UNG and commits to their potential for leadership when they arrive on campus. UNG provides an environment where you will learn, grow, and develop as a leader.

Scholarship Requirements

Students must be new first-year admits, or freshman transfer admits with total earned credits of less than 30 hours beginning in the fall 2025 semester.
Students must be seeking a bachelor’s degree and cannot be dual enrolled during the fall semester in which they are applying for the program.
Students must have had a high school GPA of 2.5 or higher.
Students can be enrolled on the Cumming, Dahlonega, Gainesville, and/or Oconee campuses. Blue Ridge students are encouraged to search for the UNG Emerging Leaders Program as an equivalent opportunity.
Students must express a desire to advance their leadership and service experience while at UNG.

Program Requirements

BOLD Scholars will be expected to uphold academic and attendance commitments to remain in good standing and receive their full scholarship. Students who fail to do so will be asked to leave the program and their scholarship may be revoked. Upon acceptance as a BOLD Scholar, all required trainings and meetings will be shared in a timely manner with the student.

Application

The BOLD Scholars application is due by February 28, 2025. Announcements of the final cohort for 2025-2026 will be made no later than April 4, 2025. For more information, contact Jessica.Brown@ung.edu.