Scholarships & Financial Assistance
With education costs on the rise, enhancing student assistance is a top priority for Acadia. Each year, we award more than $4 million to students in the form of scholarships, scholar-bursaries, bursaries, awards, and prizes. By maintaining a strong scholarship and financial assistance program, we are able to attract, retain and support our students.
As a donor to scholarships and financial assistance, you can direct your gift toward: general award funds or awards for specific departments, faculties, research, or athletic teams; any existing named awards; or you can create a personal legacy by establishing a named award yourself. By supporting scholarships and financial assistance, you can help to ensure access to all of the rewards of an Acadia education.
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Donald G. Stairs Athletic Award
Award | Eligibility: Athletics, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island
Established in 2020 by the Stairs family to honour their father. To be awarded to a returning varsity men’s hockey player who exemplifies leadership qualities on their respective team and in the community, as well as excelling in perseverance, dedication, and sportsmanship. Preference shall be given to a hockey athlete from Atlantic Canada. The recipients shall be in good academic standing and shall be chosen by the Director of Athletics in consultation with the head coach of the men’s hockey program.
This award honours Donald G. Stairs (‘44) who played for the varsity hockey Axemen, as well as the Acadia varsity men’s rugby team. Don was a two-time winner of the Orley Bligh Trophy during his four year varsity career, plus later in life he was made an Acadia Hockey Honour Roll inductee.
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Dr. Sylvia Simpson Bursary in Environmental and Sustainability Studies
Bursary | Eligibility: Pure and Applied Science, Environmental and Sustainability Studies, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia
Established in 2024 by Sylvia Simpson MD (’68) to reflect her New Brunswick roots and her passion for the environment. This bursary is awarded to Environmental and Sustainability Studies students demonstrating financial need. Preference will be given to students from New Brunswick, followed by Nova Scotia.
Sylvia Simpson grew up in Fairhaven, Deer Island, New Brunswick and earned a BSc with Honours in Biology at Acadia in 1968. A MD of Dalhousie University (1973), she practiced as a Family Physician until 1980. A graduate of John Hopkins University (MPH 1981), she completed her residency in Psychiatry (1986) and was Associate Professor of Psychiatry there, and later at the University of Colorado Medical School.
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