Objectivist intellectuals and students pursuing intellectual careers are eligible to apply for various forms of financial support.

Please note that this support is typically reserved for current OAC students, graduates of our programs, and professors involved with ARI's educational programs.

The financial support we offer falls into the following categories: 

Tuition Waivers and Phone Scholarships

Most full-time students receive full tuition waivers and phone scholarships. Scholarships are intended to help defray some of the costs of phoning in to OAC classes. Currently, the OAC offers phone scholarships at the rate of $.04/minute of scheduled class time attended by the student. All financial assistance is conditional upon maintaining satisfactory standing in the program.  

Grants

Below are descriptions of some of the types of grants we have awarded to students and scholars in the past, but they are meant just to serve as examples. If you would like to apply for a type of grant that is not mentioned below, please feel free to do so. If a grant is approved, the amount of money awarded for a particular type of grant is determined on an individual basis.

Aid for Getting Into and Through Graduate School

1. Graduate School Application Fee Assistance. Students awarded this form of assistance receive a grant that helps defray their fees for applying to graduate schools.
2. Dissertation Grants. If either a part-time job or a heavy teaching load (whether as a teaching assistant or an instructor) is slowing your progress on your dissertation, you can apply for funding that allows you to write full time.
3. Grant for Publishing (non-Objectivist papers). Publishing papers in professional journals and, to a lesser extent, presenting papers to professional conferences, are crucial to landing an academic job once you have received your PhD. ARI therefore offers financial awards for writing and submitting papers both to professional journals and conferences.
4. Grants for Conference Papers. Scholars writing papers on, or applying, Objectivism with the intention of submitting them to a graduate or professional conference are eligible to apply for a writing grant.
5. Grants for Professional Journal Articles. Scholars writing professional journal articles on or applying Objectivism are eligible to apply for a writing grant. Payments may be disbursed at various stages of the project, for example: the completion of the outline, first draft, final draft and publication.
6. Book Grants. Scholars writing books on or applying Objectivism are eligible to apply for a book writing grant.
7. Scholars in Residence at ARI. Scholars who work at ARI will write on or teach Objectivism or apply it to cognate fields; they may also assist various departments at ARI by providing intellectual oversight.
8. University Positions. ARI assists Objectivist intellectuals in finding university employment by functioning as a liaison between the job seeker, the university and the donor or foundation that sponsors work on Objectivism (e.g., the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship). 

Aid for Disseminating Objectivism

1. Grants for Conference Papers. Scholars writing papers on, or applying, Objectivism with the intention of submitting them to a graduate or professional conference are eligible to apply for a writing grant.
2. Grants for Professional Journal Articles. Scholars writing professional journal articles on or applying Objectivism are eligible to apply for a writing grant. Payments may be disbursed at various stages of the project, for example: the completion of the outline, first draft, final draft and publication.
3. Book Grants. Scholars writing books on or applying Objectivism are eligible to apply for a book writing grant.
4. Scholars in Residence at ARI. Scholars who work at ARI will write on or teach Objectivism or apply it to cognate fields; they may also assist various departments at ARI by providing intellectual oversight.
5. University Positions. ARI assists Objectivist intellectuals in finding university employment by functioning as a liaison between the job seeker, the university and the donor or foundation that sponsors work on Objectivism (e.g., the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship).

If you are interested in applying for any of the forms of assistance above, or if you would like to request some other kind of assistance, please complete our grant application form.