1. The Scholarship Commission will annually review procedures and accept recommendations to improve the National Scholarship application process. This will be done via the Internet and should be completed before the end of the calendar year.
2. The Commission Chair will provide the NAVUBPP Webmaster with a copy of the Nomination Packet annually. Projects may download the packet from a special web page on the NAVUBPP website. Upon request, the Commission Chair will mail the application packet. Each project with a current NAVUBPP membership is encouraged to submit a nomination.
3. Deadline for submission of the Nomination Packet to the Scholarship Commission Chair will be May 9.
4. A nominator must be a staff member of a current NAVUBPP member program and will be responsible for submission of the completed application and other required materials. Incomplete packets will not be considered.
5. Nominees must have participated in the Veterans Upward Bound project from which the nomination is being made and meet all eligibility criteria listed in the Nomination Packet.
6. Each director of a sponsoring project must show approval and verification of the required materials by his/her signature on the submitted application.
7. The Scholarship Chair will provide each Scholarship Commission member with copies of all eligible Nomination Packets.
8. Each packet will be reviewed and rated by members of the Scholarship Commission. If a scholarship commission member’s program submits an application, or a member is related to the nominee, that member(s) will not score the application. He or she shall recuse him/herself from any participation in the preliminary selection rounds that potentially could move the veteran into the final selection process.  Once the veteran/relative’s application has been eliminated from further consideration the relative/commission member may once again participate in the selection process.  The commission member will recuse him/herself from the entire review and selection process if the relative is selected as one of the finalists.  The chair of the Education Commission, of which the Scholarship Commission is a sub-commission, will replace the recused commission member during the selection process.  That applicant will be scored by the Education Commission chair or some other third party. Scores will be averaged and the applicant will receive that individual score.
9. The letter of nomination; the letter of recommendation; financial need; activities/achievements; academics; and the student essay will each be rated on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being the highest).
10. It will be the responsibility of each Scholarship Commission member to share his/her tabulated score with all other commission members.
11. The Scholarship Commission Chair will tabulate and verify the results with the other commission members and forward the winners’ names to the President of NAVUBPP.
12. Winners will be announced no later than June 27.
13. The Scholarship Commission Chair will provide the NAVUBPP webmaster with biographies and pictures of each winner to be posted on the NAVUBPP web page. The same information will also be furnished to the editor of the NAVUBPP Newsletter and to the winners’ hometown newspapers for publication.
14. The Scholarship Commission Chair will prepare certificates of merit to be presented to the individual winners.
15. The NAVUBPP Treasurer upon verification of fall enrollment of the Scholarship winners in order that award checks may be issued.
16. The Scholarship Commission Chair will maintain files of each year’s applications, score sheets, procedures, annual report, and any other pertinent documentation relative to the selection process. Applications may be destroyed after three years.