Restorative Practices Foundation Offers Graduate School Tuition Scholarships

In its continuing effort to foster the growth of restorative practices, the Restorative Practices Foundation, the philanthropic sister organization of the IIRP Graduate School, is offering generous tuition scholarships. Students who receive scholarships are responsible for fees and the cost of textbooks and materials of assigned readings for each course.

No Application Necessary for the Three One-Credit Introductory Courses in Basic Restorative Processes

To introduce new students to restorative practices, the first three one-credit introductory courses are available tuition-free without a scholarship application:

• YC/ED 501 Basic Restorative Processes: Introduction
• YC/ED 502 Basic Restorative Processes: Restorative Conferencing
• YC/ED 503 Basic Restorative Processes: Family Group Decision Making
• During the summer term these one-credit courses are also available as a single combined three-credit course — YC/ED 500: Basic Restorative Processes.

Please call the IIRP Graduate School Registrar at 610-807-9745 to activate your scholarship. No application is needed.

Financial Aid Application for Additional Course Tuition Scholarships

For those interested in obtaining scholarships for additional courses, please complete the IIRP Financial Aid Application form in your Student Portal. Applications for scholarships must be made each term. Once the application is reviewed, applicants will receive an email that the scholarship has been activated and may register.

Although tuition for the 2010-2011 school year is $600 per credit or $1800 per three-credit course, during the Fall 2010 term, students applying for scholarships will pay only $450 tuition per three-credit course plus fees and the cost of textbooks and materials of assigned readings for each course. (The tuition match for scholarships in the future is likely to increase.) The Restorative Practices Foundation will pay the balance of the tuition for the students.

If your workplace offers tuition reimbursement, we expect that you will avail yourself of that benefit in order to allow sufficient scholarship monies to remain available for those graduate students who do not have tuition reimbursement.

“But the benefit we receive must be rendered again,
line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

The Restorative Practices Foundation scholarship awards are based on an informal understanding that students who receive scholarships will commit themselves to replenishing the scholarship fund for other students in the future.

Scholarship recipients are asked to repay, over time, the entire sum of assistance they have received. Because repayment is voluntary, unlike a loan, the payments are recognized as tax-deductible donations by the IRS.

We trust that scholarship recipients will make the Restorative Practices Foundation one of their primary charities so that the funds for scholarships will be available to a future generation of IIRP students.

For more information on IIRP Graduate School scholarship programs, please call the Registrar at 610-807-9745.