CUPA Scholarship and Awards Programme
When established in 2001 the Concordia University Retired Faculty and Staff Scholarships and Awards Endowment Fund was to support graduate and undergraduate students in any Faculty or School at Concordia University. This continues to be the CUPA Endowment Fund’s mandated aim.
The funding of the scholarships and awards is derived through the CUPA Endowment Fund annual payout, divided evenly between graduate and undergraduate students, with a further division at the undergraduate level with 50% for scholarships and 50% for bursaries.
Since 2001, every effort has been made to ensure equitable distribution of the scholarships and awards among the Faculties and Schools. At the graduate level, the award values have ranged from $4,000.00 to $5,000.00 while at the undergraduate level bursaries have ranged from $2,000.00 to $2,500.00 and scholarships from $1,950.00 to $2,500.00.
It has always been a CUPA goal to ensure that students from all Faculties and Schools would benefit from CUPA scholarships and awards and that they be at the highest possible monetary amount, based on the funds held in the Endowment Fund. The objective is to offer $5,000.00 awards to graduate students and $2,500.00 at the undergraduate level, requiring an annual Endowment payout totaling $40,000.00. The above-mentioned award values are the recommended minimum amounts suggested by the Faculties and the School of Graduate Studies.
It is expected that through the generosity of donors to the fund over the past 20+ years, that goal will be met as of academic year 2026-2027.