The Sacramento State Faculty Senate awarded nine students with scholarships at Thursday’s board meeting.

The awards were for student achievement. To qualify, undergraduate students were required to have 3.5 or higher GPA and be in the top 10 percent of students within their major.

Post-baccalaureate students needed to be within the top 5 percent.

Bruce Bikle, associate professor of Criminal Justice and Faculty Senate president at Sac State, said he was “impressed by the quality and the depth of the recipients and their commitment to the community.”

The scholarship is worth approximately one semester of tuition. The award is an endowment, meaning it is generated from interest earned on money that is invested by the faculty and by the Alumni Association.

The scholarship program began in the early 1990s, with the first awards being given in 1994. The awards are given every spring semester. Recipients are chosen by a faculty committee. In all, 62 scholarships have been awarded by the Faculty Senate.

This year’s winners are Gretchen Hess, speech pathology and audiology major; Amy Lam, kinesiology and health science major; Donna Matthews, social work major; Rebecca Tsang, geology major; Katherine McCoy, history major; Tatyana Manzyuk, nursing major; Jesse Manton, business major; Trina Drotar, English major; and Stephanie Criddle, nursing major.

Derek Fleming can be reached at [email protected]