The Patterson Scholarship Endowment is a needs-based fund established for the primary purpose of providing high-school students with the funds, supplies, and resources necessary to travel and participate in high school speech and debate tournaments and to attend high school debate camps.

The Patterson Fellows Program is a merit-based program that provides full-tuition scholarships to twelve of the top rising policy debaters in the country to attend the University of Michigan Seven-Week summer camp. These twelve students are known as "The J.W. Patterson Fellows."