011306Honors

Honors Open House Coming Up
1/20/06 at 2:55:02 PM

— Mary Moga, Academic Adviser

With most of the peer advisers and some of the professional staff away for the part of the holidays, we used the down-time to finish projects from fall and start working on the major tasks for spring: scholarships and freshman admissions. Between now and the end of February, we will review more than 1,400 applications from high school seniors, admit about 900 of them, and plan for the 400 that will show up for orientation. At the same time, we manage the award process for $500,000 worth of scholarships for continuing CLA students. Currently more than 260 students have completed or are in the process of completing the application! Please remind your students that the application deadline is January 30, 2006, and the application materials are available on your community's navigation bar or at our website: http://www.cla.umn.edu/honors/claschol.htm

We have facilitated the nomination of many students for 2006 national scholarship competitions: 3 students for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, 4 students for the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, one student each for the Udall Scholarship and Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Scholarship, and two students for the Carnegie Foundation's Junior Fellows Program. Sally Lieberman is working with these candidates as they prepare their applications for the national competitions, which take place during Spring semester.

For those of you who have not had a chance to visit us in our new space, there will be a building Open House in Nicholson Hall on Friday, January 27 from Noon – 1:30 p.m. Please mark your calendars – we'd love to see you here!

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