E-mail us!

AEJMC PR Division Home Page

AEJMC Home Page

AEJMC Public Relations Division

AEJMC Public Relations Division Invites Students To Apply for Roschwalb International Study Grant

Students in public relations whose plans include study or research outside the United States are encouraged to apply for the Susanne A. Roschwalb Grant for International Study and Research, awarded annually by the Public Relations Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.

Full-time undergraduate and graduate students majoring in or emphasizing public relations at four-year colleges and universities in the United States are eligible to apply. An applicant may propose engaging in either an organized university exchange program or an individually designed course of study or research.

The 1999 grant will be $250 and is intended to offset a portion of the cost of travel associated with international study or research. Deadline for the receipt of applications is Friday, Feb. 26. In 1997, the grant was awarded for the first time. The winner was Kerry Anderson Crooks, a doctoral student at the University of Florida. The 1998 winner was Anastasia Egorova, a Russian citizen studying at the University of Southwestern Louisiana graduate school.

The award honors the memory of American University Associate Professor Susanne A. Roschwalb, who was active in the Public Relations Division until she died in February 1996 at age 56 from complications related to breast cancer.

Application rules and requirements are printed on the other side of this announcement.

The Roschwalb Grant Committee will notify the winner and unsuccessful applicants by April 1 and will send a check for the amount of the award by May 1. Questions concerning the application process may be addressed to the committee:

• Judy VanSlyke Turk, University of South Carolina,
  Phone 803-777-4105, Fax 803-777-4103, e-mail: Turk-Judy@sc.edu
• Larry Lamb, Kansas State University,
  Phone 785-532-3954, Fax 785-532-5484, e-mail:lflamb@ksu.edu
• Linda Scanlon,
  Phone 757-422-9819, Fax (call first) 757-422-9819, e-mail: linscan@infi.net

Application

Susanne A. Roschwalb Grant for International Study and Research

Application should list:

• Applicant name
• Street address
• City, state, zip
• E-mail
• Phone
• College or university
• Major field of study

Provide with this application form a narrative that describes your intended international program of study or research. It must specify how you see this experience as uniquely benefitting your public relations education and career development. In other words, explain why you should be chosen to receive this grant over any other applicant. This narrative must not exceed one page of double-spaced typed or word-processed text.

2. Letter of support

Provide with this form (or in a separately mailed envelope that observes the application deadline and clearly identifies the applicant) a letter of support from a full-time faculty member who teaches public relations and who has personal knowledge of you and your international program plans. Additional letters of support are welcome but not necessary.

3. Application submission

Send this form, your study description and letter of support (if you, not the letter writer, are responsible for getting it in on time) to:

Roschwalb Grant Committee
A. Q. Miller School
105 Kedzie Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan KS 66506

The letter of support need not accompany your form, but it must be received by the application deadline.

The deadline for receipt of all application materials is: 5 p.m., Friday February 26, 1999