Barbara Gezon Baker Scholarship for Academic Excellence in Sociology and Social Work. Scholarships are awarded to students entering the junior or senior year who have an outstanding academic record, particularly within the Sociology and Social Work Department. The quality of the student's written work may be considered as well. Candidates are nominated by department faculty; no application is required. Two awards are given each academic year.

Donald and Marie Boersma Family Scholarship in Social Work. One scholarship is given annually to a student entering the junior year in the Bachelor of Social Work program. It is renewable for the senior year. The scholarship requires an application. (No appplication for 2008-09; scholarship has been renewed).

Dr. Donald Bouma Memorial Scholarship in Sociology and Social Work
Two scholarships are given annually to a sociology or social work major entering the junior or senior year, in memory of Dr. Bouma, Calvin's first professor of sociology. The scholarship requires an application.

Connie Bratt Social Work Scholarship. Two scholarships are awarded annually to students entering the senior year in the Bachelor of Social Work program who exhibit a commitment to Christian service. This scholarship requires a written application.

Annemary Heerspink Memorial Social Work Scholarship. One scholarship is awarded annually to a social work major entering the junior or senior year. An application is required.

Sociology and Social Work Faculty Honors Scholarship. One scholarship is awarded annually to a sociology or social work major entering the senior year. An application is required.

Leanne Joy Knot Scholarship. Two scholarships are given annually to a sociology or social work major entering the junior or senior year. An application is required.

Richard and Janice Van Deelen Scholarship. On scholarship is awarded annually to a social work major entering the junior or senior year. The award is intended for students who are adopted persons, have special interest in adoption, or have interest in working in the field of adoption. The scholarship requires an application.

Vanderploeg-Edgerly Scholarship. One scholarship is awarded to a sociology or social work major entering the junior or senior year. The recipient agrees to write a major paper on child sexual abuse in one of his or her courses. An application is required.

Mary E. VandenBosch Zwaanstra Scholarship. One award is given to a social work major entering the senior year based on the student's commitment to the field of gerontology and principles of social justice, as demonstrated by personal aptitudes and testimony, backed by actions (volunteer service and/or work experience) and his/her intentional choice of a field placement in gerontology in the senior year. In addition the applicant(s) shall submit a course paper(s) and/or essay in which the cause of the elderly is argued in a clear and cogent way from the perspective of a social worker.

Department and program awards are made in April with application forms and information distributed in late February or early March in courses and through announcements in hallways or on bulletin boards near the department, and also via the social work list serv. More information on each of these awards is given in the college catalog.