Dottie Roberts Endowed Scholarship

Selection statement of purpose
Scholarships within the college are awarded to provide financial support based on need, academic achievement, and/or other specified criteria as determined by the fund agreement for Donor/Gift Funded scholarships or the awarding department for Institutional/Departmental scholarships.
The donor sets the criteria for recipient selection (i.e., financial need, field of study). Scholarships are awarded for one academic year. Institutional funded scholarship selection criteria will be determined prior to review and selection of applicants and will be documented annually.
Dorothy A. (Dottie) Roberts was born March 23, 1916. Orphaned at an early age, then adopted by the Roberts family, Dottie worked her way through college, graduated, and earned a master’s degree in Economics.

Dottie worked at a number of Denver publishing companies, including The Rocky Mountain News and Cervi’s Rocky Mountain Journal. In the 1960s, she founded Colorado GuestGuide, one of the first travel/destination magazines for the hospitality industry. In the 1970s, she founded Colorado Woman magazine, and in the 1980s was part of the startup company RCR Communications, a company publishing magazines related to the booming cable industry, which had a very large presence in the Denver area. Her last and likely favorite project was as a supporter and advisor for the new Colorado Expression magazine, founded in 1991.
Dottie also contributed significantly to a number of charitable causes, serving on the boards of Denver Chamber of Commerce, Big Sisters, and National Jewish Hospital, as well as others. Dottie loved her work, where she specialized in the business of publishing and advertising and mentored a significant number of budding entrepreneurs in the publishing business. One of Dottie’s passions was golf, and she organized and participated in a number of tournaments raising substantial money for the causes she loved.
Dottie died August 26, 2003 and left her estate to fund the Dottie Roberts Foundation Trust, created specifically to help entrepreneurial young women with an interest in publishing attend college. Thank you letters should be addressed to Suzy Witzler.

The Dottie Roberts Endowed Scholarship provides scholarship awards for undergraduate students enrolled full-time in CMCI, who are Colorado residents and who demonstrate financial need as determined by the FAFSA.
Selection Criteria
Applications are reviewed holistically, and selection criteria may include, but is not limited to, academic record, leadership experience, extracurricular involvement, community service, employment, essays, and in some cases, financial need as determined by the FAFSA/CASFA.
Essays: Quality of writing and content are weighed heavily.
Financial Need: The FAFSA and the Colorado Application for State Financial Aid (“CASFA”) are the mechanisms approved for calculating financial need for need-based scholarship awarding.