How to Become a ¡PUEDE! Scholar
The ¡PUEDE! Project funds 6 bilingual school psychology and 6 bilingual speech language
pathology graduate students each year, and students remain on the project for a 2-year
cycle. In the final year, some of the scholars will be supported for a third year.
Financial assistance is available.
¡PUEDE! Scholars are selected from first-year Speech Language Pathology (SLP) candidates, and from second-year School Psychology (SP) candidates. Thus, all PUEDE! Scholars must first be accepted into one of these graduate programs:
¡PUEDE! Project Application
When applying to the PUEDE! Project, you must provide:
- CV or resume
- Language proficiencies
- Application essays on interest in high needs youth
- Depth and breadth of knowledge base with Latino DL/EL populations
- History of collaboration
- References
Project applications also require an affidavit assuring that candidates understand the service obligation requirements, the Pre-scholarship Agreement and Exit Certification. The leadership team reviews and rates application and interviews candidates to select each cohort.
- Link to application (Word doc)