About the Scholarships

Brian Hayes, the first recipient of JEA’s Future Journalism Teacher Scholarship, delivers a session a JEA/NSPA convention.
The Journalism Education Association sponsors up to five $1,000 scholarships for education majors who intend to teach scholastic journalism. Each recipient must be an upper-division or master’s degree student in a college program designed to prepare him/her for teaching at the secondary-school level. Current secondary-school journalism teachers who are in a degree program to improve their journalism teaching skills are also eligible.