Name of Award: Best Academic Improvement Award

Description of Award:  MLC believes that residential college system, or liberal arts education emphasises the development of the “whole person,” where students are encouraged to take responsibility for their education. This award is presented to students who have made significant improvement on his/her academic results over the past academic year. The students should have actively participated in MLC’s  programmes and activities that are in line with MLC vision and mission. This award aims to encourage students to work hard on their studies and to remind everyone else that imporvements are always possible.

Number of Awards: Three

Value of Award per Awardee (MOP$): 3,000.00

Eligibility: MLC 2nd year residents in academic year 2021/2022.

Qualifications:

  1. Applicants must have resided in MLC during his/her 1st year of study and fulfilled the Residential College (RC) requirements in academic year 2020/2021
  2. Applicants must be an MLC resident in academic year 2021/2022.
  3. Applicant must actively protect the Motherland, Macau SAR, the University of Macau and the College’s reputations, students must not damage their reputation by harmful behaviour.

Application:
Application deadline: 20th October, 2021. Late applications are not accepted.

Selection Criteria:

  1. Applicants’ semester GPA should at least improve by 1.0, (for FLL students, this is equivalent to 3 points or more).  If no student meets the above criteria, the selection committee will select  three students  with the greatest improvement of GPA in academic year 2020/2021. (40%)
  2. Applicant’s cumulative GPA should be above 2.0 or 13 for FLL (10%)
  3. Applicants should have activitely participated in the College’s programmes and activities that align with the RC 2.0 competencies. (frequency/intensity) (30%)
  4. Applicants should have performed a significant role in the promotion/advancement of the College’s mission and vision. (20%)