.png)
The 2025 Whitney M. Young, Jr. Scholarship application opens December 16, 2024 and closes January 17.
Applicants must be:
-
A high school senior or recent graduate who has not enrolled in college
-
A New York City resident
-
Involved in community service, display leadership ability and have academic achievements
​
Each year, NYUL awards scholarships ranging from $2,000 to $10,000 to exceptional high school seniors and recent graduates who have not yet enrolled in college. Since the development of the scholarship, NYUL has awarded and leveraged over $20 million to 4,000 African American and LatinX youth.
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Whitney Moore Young, Jr. (July 31, 1921 – March 11, 1971) was an American civil rights leader. Trained as a social worker, he spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into one that aggressively worked for equitable access to socioeconomic opportunity for the historically disenfranchised.
Education
Born in Kentucky in 1921. Young earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Kentucky State University. From 1942-1944, while serving in the U.S. Army, he studied electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After his discharge from the military, Young returned from overseas and went on to earn his MSW from the University of Minnesota.
