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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">[With our apologies for duplication, we ask that you post this announcement to the members of the Society of
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Ohio
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Archivists, especially graduate students.]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The application period for the 2015 Society of American Archivists Josephine Forman Scholarship is now open.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> 
 If you are an eligible graduate student in archival science, apply!  If you know of an eligible graduate student, please forward this information to that student with encouragement to submit an application!   Applications must be submitted to SAA by February
 28.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The purpose of the Josephine Forman Scholarship is to provide financial support to minority students pursuing graduate education in archival science, to encourage students to pursue
 a career as an archivist, and to promote the diversification of the American archives profession. The scholarship is given to applicants who demonstrate excellent potential for scholastic and personal achievement and who manifest a commitment both to the archives
 profession and to advancing diversity concerns within it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The recipient of the award will receive a scholarship of $10,000. Awardees also may be invited to attend the annual meeting of the General Commission on Archives and History and/or
 the Quadrennial Historical Convocation, with funding provided by GCAH.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Eligibility:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The applicant must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The applicant must be of American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander descent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The applicant must be currently enrolled in a graduate program or a multi-course program in archival administration, or have applied to such a program
 for the next academic year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The applicant shall have completed no more than half of the credit requirements toward her/his graduate degree at the time of the award (i.e., June
 1).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The applicant must be enrolled in a graduate program and begin school no later than September 1 or the fall semester/quarter immediately following the
 award. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Applicants may have full-time or part-time status.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">For more details or to download the application form please visit:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> <a href="http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-forman">http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-forman</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>The deadline to apply is February 28, 2015.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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Sincerely,<br>
<br>
The Josephine Forman Scholarship Subcommittee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Josué</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> Hurtado (Chair), Temple University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">L. Dale Patterson, </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">United Methodist Church Archives</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Lisa Huntsha, Augustana College</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Elizabeth Nielsen, Oregon State University</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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