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<b>Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship Applications Solicited</b></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">MAC is soliciting applications for the 2025 Archie Motley Memorial Scholarship for Students of Color (</span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.midwestarchives.org/motley" target="_blank" id="OWA9071aed8-3426-cb21-318a-314c8169947f" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="http://www.midwestarchives.org/motley" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: blue;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">http://www.midwestarchives.org/motley</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">).
The scholarship is designed to provide financial assistance to students of color pursuing graduate education in archival administration and to encourage ethnic diversification of the MAC membership and of the archival profession. Two $1,500 scholarships, accompanied
by one-year memberships to MAC, will be awarded. </span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To be eligible for a scholarship, the applicant must be of African, Arabic, Asian, Indigenous, Pacific Islander, or Latinx descent; must be a student currently enrolled in or accepted in a graduate, multicourse program in
archival administration; and must have a grade point average of at least 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) in their academic program. If the program is not listed in the SAA Directory of Archival Education,
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the applicant must provide proof of the multicourse standard by submitting copies of course descriptions from the institution’s current departmental catalog.</span></div>
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Applications are due <b>March 1, 2025</b> and must include the following documents:</div>
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Completed application form, available at <span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.midwestarchives.org/motley" target="_blank" id="OWA6f2c8489-0bd9-88f3-9f52-c1ab2b92ebc0" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="http://www.midwestarchives.org/motley" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: blue;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2">http://www.midwestarchives.org/motley</a></u></span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">
Current resume that includes education, work history, involvement in campus or community organizations, membership in professional organizations, and any honors or awards received</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">
Transcript from the applicant's most recent academic program (unofficial transcript is acceptable)</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">
Essay of not more than 500 words outlining the applicant's interests and future goals in archival administration</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">
One letter of recommendation (may be submitted separately by recommender).</li></ul>
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Please send all materials (application form, transcript, and essay) as one single file. Completed applications should be sent to:</div>
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Megan Keller Young</div>
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Senior Instructor and Special Collections Librarian</div>
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University of Illinois Chicago</div>
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megank@uic.edu</div>
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Applications must be emailed by March 1, 2025. </div>
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Awards will be announced no later than June 3, 2025. </div>
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