ASU Alumni Association Medallion Scholarship

***Message from ASU Scholarship Committee. To get involved, fill out document to the left and e-mail the contact***

Hi Everyone,

The ASU Alumni Association Medallion Scholarship program is about to get started for this year's deserving high school seniors. I wanted to contact you to ask if you would be willing to help us again this year.

Although we are still reviewing our financial situation, we tentatively are planning to continue what we did last year by awarding 27 new scholarships that will each be worth $2,750 a year for four years at ASU.

We selected December 15, 2008 as our deadline to accept applications. That allows us to conduct the evaluations from December 22, 2008 to January 16, 2009. Hopefully, that will be enough time so that it doesn't interfere with anyone's holiday plans. We want to put the applications on a secure website again because that seemed to work pretty well last year.

There are all kinds of ways you can help:

• You could be on the committee. Generally, that involves attending one or two meetings and helping us make decisions about the program. Committee members also get invited to the Spring awards banquet.

• You could be an evaluator of written applications. As those of you who have done it before know, it only takes a couple hours to evaluate your portion of the applications and you can do it at home.
  

• You could be a team leader. If you have already been an evaluator, you can share your experience by being a team leader. We'll recruit and organize the teams so all the leader has to do is make sure the team members get the information they need and answer any questions that might crop up. (If they stump you, Greg and I can help.) The team leaders also receive the evaluation forms from their team members, consolidate them and forward them to Greg.

• We want to have six teams of five evaluators each, which means we need six team leaders and twenty-four evaluators.

• We are also looking for a few volunteers to interview the 30 (maybe 36) finalists. The interviews will take up most of a Thursday and Friday and possibly a Saturday morning. We would like to get five interviewers who would be willing to attend all three days so that we can have some consistency in the evaluations.

• You could also participate in the Alumni Ambassador program. This program connects alumni with our scholars for various opportunities throughout the year. I've attached a flyer for this program.

We would really appreciate your help again in selecting this year's Medallion Scholars. As those of you who participated in past years know, this is an easy way to help the Alumni Association and also have a huge impact in the lives of some very deserving students. A major plus is that you don't have to make a big time commitment in order to make a big difference.

Everyone on this list has mentioned that they might be interested, so please let us know that you are still willing to help out as a committee member, evaluator, leader, or interviewer. Remember, you are not limited to just one job.

Also, if you know someone else who you think would enjoy helping out, please share this information with them and encourage them to contact me.

I would also appreciate hearing if you are not interested so we can take you off our list. I look forward to working with you and will communicate more details as we near the application deadline.


Pat Shannahan
Scholarship Committee Chair
(602) 285-9136 Ext 26
pshannahan@azoca.gov