Eileen Glavin Bursary

The Eileen Glavin Bursary has been established by the family of Eileen Glavin to support students with financial need who have overcome a personal challenge.

Eileen Glavin was born in England to Irish immigrant parents in 1921. During the Second World War, Eileen enlisted with a Royal Air Force and was engaged in the top-secret code-breaking operation led by Alan Turing, centered at Bletchley Park. After her brother Patrick was killed in Germany just weeks before Victory in Europe Day, her father brought most of the family home to Ireland, but Eileen stayed on in England and married an Irish RAF member. After emigrating to Canada in 1957, Eileen worked at a variety of jobs, raised four sons, and once they were grown, she served the family of the Rebbe Feuerstein as a nanny, helping to raise eight more children.

Eligibility

• enrolled in any for-credit Royal Roads certificate or degree program
• demonstrates reasonable financial need
• describes overcoming a personal challenge
• preference may be given to students who are single parents or first-generation post-secondary students

How to apply

• this In-Course Award is open to students who are (or will be) active in their program on the deadline date
• pending the availability of funding, the competition will run annually from March 1st to May 1st (closes 11:59pm RRU time)
• applications are submitted online through MyAdmin. A full list of awards in competition will be viewable upon login
• address eligibility criteria for all awards in that competition one one-page essay with your name in top margin