Louisa Bowen Memorial Scholarship for Graduate Students in Archival Administration

The Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) is soliciting applications for the 2024 Louisa Bowen Memorial Scholarship for Graduate Students in Archival Administration.

The Louisa Bowen Memorial Scholarship for Graduate Students in Archival Administration is a scholarship worth $1,000 and a one-year membership in the Midwest Archives Conference. Applicants must be a resident or full-time student residing in one of the following states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

Applicants must also be currently enrolled or accepted into a graduate, multi-course program in archival administration and have a GPA of at least 3.0 for the most recent academic year.

The application due date is March 31^st, 2024.

For more information about applying, please see the scholarship webpage.

MAC Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship Applications Solicited

The Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) is soliciting applications for the 2016 Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship for Minority Students. The scholarship is designed to provide financial assistance to minority students pursuing graduate education in archival administration and to encourage ethnic diversification of the MAC membership and of the archival profession as a whole. Two $750 scholarships, accompanied by one-year memberships to MAC, will be awarded.

In order to be eligible for a scholarship, the applicant must be of African, American Indian, Asian or Pacific Islander, or Latino descent; must be a student currently enrolled in or accepted in a graduate, multicourse program in archival administration; and must have a grade point average of at least 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) in his or her academic program. If the program is not listed in the SAA Directory of Archival Education, the applicant must provide proof of the multicourse standard by submitting copies of course descriptions from the institution’s current departmental catalog. Applicants are not required to be residents of or attend school in the MAC region.

Applications are available from the Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship for Minority Students Committee Chair:

Alison Stankrauff
Archivist and Associate Librarian
Indiana University South Bend
574 – 520 – 4392
astankra@iusb.edu

And from the MAC website, http://www.midwestarchives.org.

Applying for the Archie Motley Scholarship has gotten easier with MAC’s new online application form.

Applications must be postmarked by March 1, 2016.

Awards will be announced no later than June 1, 2016.

LAST CALL FOR MAC SCHOLARSHIPS

This is a last call for submissions for the MAC 2012 scholarship. We have also increased the number of scholarships available. There are now six scholarships available for current students who wish to attend the MAC 2012 meeting in Grand Rapids, MI on April 19-21. The scholarship will cover the registration fees for the conference. Please follow the link below and fill out the form by this Friday, March 9, 2012 to be eligible. A random selection will be used to determine the winners.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dDFMd2IyeGd0M3N1aFRLbTdwUW9JVnc6MA

Good luck and see you this April in Grand Rapids!