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Call for MAC Minority Scholarship applications



MIDWEST ARCHIVES CONFERENCE SOLICITS SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS

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

In order to be eligible for a scholarship, the applicant must be a student of African, Asian, Latino, American Indian, or Pacific Islander descent, currently enrolled in, or accepted into, a graduate, multi-course program in archival administration listed in the SAA Directory of Archival Education, and must have a grade point average of at least 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) in his/her academic program. Applicants are not required to be residents of or to attend school in the Midwest region.

Applications are available from the Minority Scholarship Committee Chair:
Kathryn M. Neal, Curator
Givens Collection of African American Literature
Special Collections and Rare Books
University of Minnesota
111 Andersen Library, 222 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612) 624-3855; nealx008@tc.umn.edu

or the MAC web site at http://www.midwestarchives.org/scholar.htm. Applications must be postmarked by April 1, 2001. Awards will be announced no later than June 1, 2001.

The Midwest Archives Conference is one of the nation's largest regional archival organizations, drawing on a membership of more than 1,000 individuals and institutional members from its 12-state area.




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