How does the CPOSF choose who gets a scholarship?
All applications for eligible candidates are carefully reviewed by an independent panel of Master Chiefs at the Navys Senior Enlisted Academy in Newport, Rhode Island. The panel grades the applications and develops the slate of selected awardees using standard evaluating criteria. The panel then presents that slate to the CPOSF Board of Directors. The CPOSF board does not participate in, influence, or question this panels final decision or the results. The CPOSF Board of Directors, in order to be fair and impartial, does not receive or handle in any way any of the applications and, therefore, will never know the identity of the applicants, except for those selected by the panel as awardees and alternates. It is the stated goal of the CPOSF to eventually be able to provide financial assistance to all qualified applicants. However, until such time that we achieve the financial capability to do so, we must continue to use our current proven method to review applications and make fair and
