Caroline Chandler, International Campus graphic designer
College students finding out in on-line diploma packages on the U of A should apply by Feb. 15 to be thought-about for the W.E. Manning Memorial Scholarship to be awarded within the fall of 2023.
The International Campus asks college, advisers, directors and pals to share this scholarship deadline with college students in on-line packages.
About 25 U of A college students in undergraduate or graduate on-line diploma packages can profit from scholarships of $2,000 per pupil. College students can apply for funding for greater than 40 diploma packages supplied by the educational faculties and featured on the U of A ONLINE web site.
The scholarship committee will give choice to scholarship candidates who exhibit monetary want, tutorial advantage or important group service. Desire additionally might be given to Arkansas residents and first-generation increased training college students. For scholarship functions, a pupil might be outlined as a first-generation pupil if neither guardian earned a better training diploma.
The U of A Educational Scholarship Workplace will announce the awards about 60 days after the Feb. 15 deadline. Scholarships will apply to tuition and costs for the 2023-2024 tutorial yr.
“I believe that it is nice that there is a scholarship particularly for on-line college students,” mentioned Trinity Barnes of Newark, Arkansas, who’s incomes a bachelor’s diploma in communication on-line. “It is actually given on-line college students a highlight and reveals that on-line training is of no lesser worth than conventional face-to-face educating.”
Barnes was considered one of 29 college students who had been named in Fall 2022 to obtain Manning scholarships.
The International Campus awarded scholarships to 4 college students in 2018, seven college students in 2019, 22 in 2020 and 25 in 2021. Scholarships honor the reminiscence of William E. Manning, a passionate U of A educator who joined the International Campus in 1975 and died in 1993. Manning, who was 51, was director of credit score research, an workplace that now facilitates U of A Self-Paced On-line Programs.
“The W.E. Manning Memorial Scholarship helps on-line college students overcome one of many main obstacles to increased training — value,” mentioned Cheryl Murphy, vice provost for distance training and head of the International Campus. “That is the sixth yr in a row to supply our scholarship that particularly advantages college students in on-line diploma packages on the College of Arkansas.”
The work Manning and others did within the Eighties and Nineties set the muse for what has grow to be the International Campus, a service unit devoted to serving to tutorial faculties develop and ship high-quality on-line training and workforce improvement packages. The International Campus supplies tutorial design providers, know-how providers, media providers and help with advertising, recruiting and strategic tutorial improvement.
Scholarship candidates have to be enrolled in on-line diploma packages from the Dale Bumpers School of Agricultural, Meals and Life Sciences; the J. William Fulbright School of Arts and Sciences; the Sam M. Walton School of Enterprise; the School of Schooling and Well being Professions; the School of Engineering; or the College of Legislation.
Presents will be made to the Manning Scholarship fund by the U of A’s On-line Giving web site.