The English department offers an atypically large number of competitive scholarships and prizes recognizing superior academic achievement. These awards range from $50 to $3,000, and give ambitious and bright students not only financial support, but also intellectual promotion of a kind that will increase their potential for superior placement in career fields and graduate institutions of their choice. For writing awards, papers are nominated by faculty mentors. The department also awards outstanding academic performance and excellent student teaching for English Adolescence Education majors. Each Spring semester, an annual awards ceremony for all award-winning students and their parents is held during the last week of classes.
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- Albert A. Dunn Memorial Scholarship and Book Grant The Albert A. Dunn Memorial Scholarship awards money toward tuition to a full-time student majoring in English, or with a dual major in English and another program, who is passionate about literature, has a special love of reading, a possible interest in teaching, and demonstrates skill in communication. The Albert A. Dunn Memorial Book Grant awards $500 toward the purchase of primary texts in fiction, poetry, and drama.
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- John and Eleanor Courts Memorial Scholarship
- Crescence Ehmke Graham Scholarship
- Howard Herkimer & Hildegard Maytum Strong Scholarship
- Laura Foster Award: Awarded to an English major (full-time undergraduate with at least junior standing) for the paper best displaying excellence in the study of literature. Preference will be given to papers that focus on the Romantic period (or, more generally, nineteenth-century literature), especially Sir Walter Scott.
- Henry Salerno Scholarship: Awarded to a senior going on to graduate school who has done superior work. Submissions for this award include a personal statement of plans for graduate study (1-3 pages, double-spaced), and scholarly evidence of superior writing (a paper or equivalent). Evidence of acceptance AND enrollment to graduate school (i.e., a copy of registration, etc.) is needed to actually award the money after the student is enrolled.
- Mary Louise White Book Award: Two Mary Louise White Book Scholarships of $200 per semester (for up to four semesters in all) will be awarded to first-year English majors on the basis of admissions data (which might include financial need) and writing excellence. One scholarship will be awarded to an English major, a second to an English Education major. The entry paper must be 300 to 500 words in length, must demonstrate an individual style or voice, the ability to place your own experience in a wider context, and a proficient use of mechanics (grammar, spelling, etc.), and must answer one of the following questions: (1) If you were given $200 to spend on books that were not for school, what would they be and why? (2) Describe how and why a particular book changed your perspective.
- Mary Louise White Poetry Award: For the best poem or group of poems written by a Fredonia State undergraduate student.
- Mary Louise White Fiction Award: For the best short story written by a Fredonia State student.
- Mary Louise White Creative Writing Award: For the best work of creative writing (to alternate between prose and poetry every year, this year it will be for poetry) written by a Fredonia State student.
- Best Paper by a First Year Student Award: best paper written by a first-year student at SUNY Fredonia.
- Best Paper by an Upper-Level Student Award: best English paper written outside of ENGL 100 by a student beyond the first year at SUNY Fredonia.
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- Summer Research Fellowship Award
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- Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society:
The Department of English is a member of the Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society. Qualifying English majors will be able to graduate with that honors designation in May 2007, and will also be eligible for further scholarships and awards that the society offers. For further information on how to apply for this honor's designation, email Emily VanDette.
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Further information:
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