- Full-time graduate student
- Maintain full-time enrollment unless fewer than twice the number of hours required to be full-time remaining in degree program
- Major in Educational Leadership or its successor at the University unless no applicant possess these characteristics, then student enrolling full-time in College of Education will be eligible for consideration
- A 3.5 cumulative GPA
- Annually renewable if recipient reapplies and meets requirements
- Be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States