Women@INI Scholarships
Conference Scholarships
The Women@INI scholarship program will award scholarships each year to students who show academic merit and proven leadership in Women@INI and other academic programs. These scholarships will allow recipients to attend conferences focusing on women in technology.
For more information about the Women@INI scholarship program, contact our faculty advisor, Lorrie Cranor.
Executive Women's Forum Fellowship
 The INI and Carnegie Mellon CyLab have partnered with the Executive Women’s Forum (EWF), sponsored by Alta Associates, to offer a full scholarship to one Master of Science in Information Security Technology and Management (MSISTM) student each year.
Alta Associates is a premier executive recruitment firm specializing in Information Security, IT Audit, Risk Management and Privacy. In 2003, Alta Associates organized the first-ever Executive Women’s Forum on Information Security for leaders in information security, privacy and risk management, and they have been holding annual EWF’s since that time. The EWF is a group of over 200 of the most senior executive women in information security, risk management and privacy who meet yearly to share experiences and build trust-based relationships.
This scholarship will be offered for three years, beginning in the Fall 2007 semester. Awardees, known as EWF Fellows, will receive a full scholarship and will be mentored by an EWF participant at a senior level in the information security field. In addition, Alta Associates and Carnegie Mellon plan to create a mentoring program between EWF and Women@INI (WINI).
Recipients of the EWF scholarship must meet the following criteria:
- Meet all criteria for admission to the INI MSISTM program
- Have an accumulated GPA of at least 3.25 prior to entering Carnegie Mellon and maintain a minimum 3.25 GPA while at the INI
- Have no outstanding employment contract or obligation while attending Carnegie Mellon
- Show exemplary promise and potential
- Demonstrate exceptional leadership skills
- Be a U.S. citizen
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