Scholarships for Journal Students
Sponsors of the annual Banking Institute program and The Mascia Family Banking Institute Scholarships fund ten, $10,000 scholarships for the rising 3L editors of the banking journal.
The Lissa Broome Scholarship
The Lissa Broome Scholarship was established by the Center’s Board of Advisors who created an endowment in 2001 to provide support to a third-year law student serving as an editor of the North Carolina Banking Institute Journal. This scholarship is for $10,000.
Marion A. Cowell Scholarship
This scholarship was first awarded in 2013-14 to provide a second scholarship to support a third-year law student serving as an editor of the North Carolina Banking Institute Journal. In 2019 it was named the Marion A. Cowell, Jr. Scholarship by the Board in honor of Marion Cowell’s role in forming the Board of Advisors and beginning the Banking Institute. This scholarship is for $10,000.
Mascia Family Banking Institute Scholarships
Mike Mascia and his family created this scholarship that was first awarded in 2022 to five of the editors on the North Carolina Banking Institute journal. This scholarship provides $10,000 to each recipient.
NC Banking Institute Sponsor Scholarship
In honor of the publication of Volume 20 of the North Carolina Banking Institute journal, the Banking Institute sponsors began providing $3,000 scholarships to eight editors of the journal so that all editors were receiving a scholarship of at least $3,000. In 2022, with the creation of the Mascia Family Banking Institute Scholarships, the Banking Institute Sponsors began providing 3, $10,000 scholarships to journal editors so that all ten journal editors now receive a $10,000 scholarship during their third year of law school.
Global Summer Enrichment
The Center provides funding to help offset the costs of summer study abroad related to banking and finance. This support provides $2,000 travel grants for up to five students and modest grants for each week spent in an international summer internship. Support for additional students is provided by Center Board of Advisor member, Camden Webb ’95. Our summer international partner is Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany.
Summer Public Interest Grants
The Center funds four summer public interest grants (each in the amount of $3,000) to students working in unpaid public interest positions related to banking and finance, including students clerking with a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge or a North Carolina Business Court Judge.