Lorraine N. Cieminski Non-Traditional Student Scholarship

Criteria:

1. Non-Traditional (24+ years) Undergraduate female student from any major
2. Enrolled in 12 or more credits for both fall and spring terms
3. GPA of 2.5 or higher

Background and Motivation
Lorraine was a lifelong resident of Winona, MN. She married young and dropped out of high school, later completing her GED while working full time and raising six- children. She attended Winona State University as a non-traditional student in the late 1960’s, early 1970’s, majoring in Business Administration. At the time, non-traditional married female college students were unheard of. In 1976, Lorraine became the first woman to hold political office in Winona as a County Commissioner. She successfully sold insurance and operated a bookkeeping service. She did not complete her degree at
Winona State, opting to use the funds to send her now grown children to college. Cathleen Jo Faruque, a professor emeritus from the Department of Social Work developed this scholarship in memory of her mother, Lorraine, for non­ traditional women (aged 24 years and older) with children attending Winona State University,