Scholarships for Art Students1. PurposeCollege is an important part of continuing education and is also the best time for students to hone their skills and become the best they can be in their field. The inclusion of support, both financial and mental, is essential to achieving a college education and should be given equally to athletic and artistic students. But every year, many athletes in the United States are offered college scholarships to recognize their talent and encourage them to play at the university that awards them the scholarship. At the same time, the same number of equally artistically talented students have to pay for college themselves because they don't benefit from as many scholarships as athletes. This unfair and unequal distribution of scholarships poses a threat to the college education of art students around the world. This is a problem that occurs at every university in the United States, including Iowa State University, and it is a policy that needs to be changed so that college is an equally beneficial for athletes as well as artists.2. ScopeIn this article, I will compare information about athletic and arts scholarships offered at Iowa State University. In doing so, I will focus on the difference in number, criteria and cash awarded by these scholarships. I will discuss the needs for change in this policy, the ideas I have on how to change it, the benefits that will result from changing this policy, and how to implement these changes.3. History and Needs According to a scholarship list distributed by Iowa State itself, the college offers a greater number of athletic scholarships than arts scholarships. With scholarships available in every sport played in the state of Iowa, the chances of an athlete receiving a scholarship are much higher than those of an art student. In fact, according to information provided by Iowa State, a new athletic student is five times more likely to receive more scholarships than an equally qualified art student. The reason for this difference is that most general scholarships are offered to arts students and these scholarships are offered to all students, including athletes, making the competition and chances of receiving such scholarships much more difficult. Scholarships offered by Iowa State should be of equal amounts, especially those focused specifically on art and athletics..