American Reading Forum
2004 Graduate Student Mentor/Scholarship Program
I would like to thank all of the members who have indicated that they will be making a contribution to the scholarship fund for the 2004 conference. If other members wish to donate to the scholarship fund, they should contact me as soon as possible.
Graduate students presenting at the December 2004 conference must be nominated by a member by November 1, 2004 to be eligible for a scholarship. Letters of nomination should be sent to:
P.O. Box 2845 Email: rvbass@valdosta.edu
Valdosta, GA 31604-2845
Students involved in a conference session, either as a presenter or reactor, may be nominated. Nominees are expected to submit an article, on their session or a reaction to another session, following the procedures established for the ARF Yearbook. Acceptance of the article for publication is not a condition of eligibility for scholarship recipients.
This year the 2004 Call for Proposals provides a Graduate Student Research Proposal Form with a deadline of October 1, 2004. If you have a graduate student who applies either under this provision or under the regular deadline for proposals, I will need to have your nomination by November 1, 2004.
Each scholarship recipient will be selected according to the ratings obtained on the blind reviews of his/her session proposal and receipt of nomination letter from an ARF member. If a student is unable to attend the conference, the next attending student on the list will receive the scholarship.
It is the expectation that a draft of the scholarship recipient’s paper be received by the reactor at least one week prior to the conference and that the member who nominates the student will mentor and then verify to the chair of the Scholarship Committee that these requirements have been met.
Students wishing to participate in the mentoring/research exchange sessions during the 2004 conference should notify me (see the address and numbers above) by November 1, 2004 so that appropriate arrangements can be made. Students do not have to be scholarship recipients to attend this session.
Randall Bass, Chair
ARF Graduate Student Mentor/Scholarship Program