Established by Maradel Krummel Gale, associate professor emerita of sustainable community development in the UO Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM), one scholarship of approximately $3,000 may be awarded each academic year. Applicants for the scholarship may include new and continuing students from the Pacific Island nations of Micronesia, Polynesia, or Melanisia, including the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Selection of recipients for this scholarship shall give priority to applicants who are fluent in a language indigenous to the islands, such as Belauan, Yapese, Satawalese, Marshallese, Samoan, Pohnpeian, Cook Islands Maori, Fijian, Bislama, or other recognized island languages.
