Javits Fellowship Program

(click here for downloadable information about this opportunity)

$30,000 plus tuition & fees for fine arts, humanities and social science graduate study

Eligibility:

  • financial need
  • Any fine arts (dance, visual, music – performance, literature, theory, composition; theatre arts – playwriting, screenwriting, acting) graduate major in a terminal graduate degree program
  • History, Rhetoric, Sociology, Psychology
    • Either new grad, entering TWU fall 2007 OR
    • Current grad in 1st yr, (Fall 07 = start of 2nd yr)
    • Current grad in 2nd yr of study do NOT qualify
Application due in late September 2007/early October

Students must demonstrate:

  1. superior ability & achievement (must have GRE scores on file)
  2. exceptional promise (supporting materials/ slides submitted on CD)
  3. financial need (must have FAFSA on file)
Scoring (400 pts)
  • Statement of purpose (100 pts)
  • Letters of rec (100 pts)
  • Academic record (50 pts)
  • Scholarly awards/ honors (50 pts)
  • Supporting arts materials (100 pts)

    • Javits Website:

    http://www.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html

    Committee contact information:

    Amy O'Keefe (aokeefe@twu.edu)

    John Weinkein (jweinkein@twu.edu)

    Mary Williford-Shade (mwillifordshade@twu.edu)