Our office is aware of the delay with FAFSA Student Aid Indexes (SAI) reports. When submitting applications, if your SAI is still outstanding, please make note of it in your application and we will accept your SAI at a later date. Thank you.

Eligibility

To be eligible, you must attend a school in Maryland and
live in District 11B. Please verify your legislative district by inputting your address at www.mdelect.net. The Scholarship Committee will not consider any applications that are not from District 11B residents, except for Renewal applications (see below).

Renewal Applications

Applicants who received an award for prior or current school years should use the Renewal form to ensure scholarship money for the upcoming year and may email the application per the instructions.

In addition to students living in District 11B, we will accept renewal applications from students who now live in District 11A, due to redistricting in 2022.

Previous undergraduate recipients should fill out the graduate school form (not the renewal form) if they advance to graduate school.

There is a limit of 5 years total on all scholarship awards.

Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)

Delegate scholarship applications do not require FAFSA to be completed, but it is helpful. For more information on FAFSA, please see the Maryland Higher Education website. FAFSA has a priority due date of March 1, 2024, but MHEC has extended it to June 1, 2024.

Out-of-State Exceptions

You may use this scholarship at an out-of-state school if your major is not available at any Maryland institution and if your delegate agrees. For additional information and a unique major application see the State Delegate Scholarship page on MHEC’s website.

For additional information on state financial aid, visit MHEC’s website.

About Mr. Lipsitz

H. Allan Lipsitz devoted his life to teaching and learning.  Born in Baltimore, he was a 1959 City College graduate and earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1963.  He also earned three master’s degrees from the University of Maryland and the Johns Hopkins University for studies in English, education and liberal arts.

Mr. Lipsitz taught English at Milford Mill High School for 13 years, where he was respected and beloved by hundreds of students to whom he transmitted his deep love of literature, while teaching essential writing skills and critical thinking.  He cared about his students as individuals and many remember him as their mentor.  The class of 1971 dedicated its yearbook to him, in appreciation of his “enthusiasm, exciting new ideas, warmth and devotion.  As translator of the mysteries of the English language to both willing and unwilling students, as Coordinator of the Fine Arts Program and Humanities course, and as class and yearbook advisor, Mr. Lipsitz devoted hours of his life to the Milford community.”

He went on to work for 17 years as an academic advisor in continuing studies at Towson University, where he also started the Elderhostel program.  Mr. Lipsitz then became the first director of adult education at Beth El Congregation in Baltimore, where he worked for 9 years until his death, designing award winning classes, programs and trips.

He instilled in others a love of lifelong learning that is his legacy.