Gilbert Awards Application Process
Interested applicants should complete the attached application and include an essay, observing the page limits. A committee of English faculty, as well as the donor, will evaluate the applications giving consideration to the following criteria: project viability, quality and coherence of the written proposal, and the strength of the entire application. (Handwritten, incomplete, inaccurate, or late applications will not be accepted.)
This application consists of 3 parts:
- Application Page (form attached). This is a PDF form directly onto which your responses can be typed.
- Educational Objectives Essay. This is a 1-2 page formal essay proposal, detailing your project and how it will help you transition from earning an English degree to life beyond
- Budget (form attached). This is a PDF form directly onto which your specific budgetary figures can be typed.
*It is important that your name appear only on the Application Page and not on the Essay or Budget, as the committee seeks blind submissions.
DEADLINE: Please submit completed application no later than 5:00 p.m., February 22, 2008 to:
Career and
Guilford
5800 West Friendly Avenue
Greensboro,
NOTIFICATION: Award recipients will be notified by April 1, 2008.
FOLLOW-UP REQUIREMENTS: If your proposal is chosen, you will be expected to make regular progress reports, and provide a final project assessment, before receiving the last portion of funding. The Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert Award is also meant to encourage greater community-building and networking between alumni and current students in the English major. Thus, you will be expected to participate in a Gilbert Award alumni event, or to act as a mentor for other graduating English majors, in the following year. If the nature or viability of your proposed project changes between application and award, the grant may be withheld or cancelled at the discretion of the committee and donor.