Tuesday, September 12, 2023
3 – 4 p.m.
Boone Center
Thursday, April 18, 2024
All Day
Rick Roth Memorial Scholarship
This endowment was established to award scholarships to students who are pre-majors or majors in integrated strategic communication, and who demonstrate the qualities embodied by Professor Roth of tenacity, determination, commitment, leadership, service and involvement.
Dan Rather Endowed Broadcast Journalism Scholarship
This endowment was established to support scholarships for broadcast journalism students. The recipients should be juniors entering the broadcast journalism sequence.
Communication Fund for Excellence
Each year, the Department of Communication offers an Outstanding Senior Award and an Outstanding Junior Award. These awards are based entirely on academic merit. Eligible students will be contacted by the unit to apply for this award. Winners are selected by a faculty committee.
Clarence E. and Edna Horn Johnson Endowed Scholarship
The endowment was established to provide scholarships for students who are graduates of a high school located in Pike, Letcher, Harlan or Floyd counties in Kentucky.
Tournament of Champions Charitable Fund
This fund supports activities of the annual Tournament of Champions and can be used for fee reductions for participating teams, the annual Breakfast of Champions event, meals for competitors, academic scholarships for champions, travel grants, and an annual J.W. Patterson Policy Debate Scholarship to the TOC Policy Debate Champion and the second place TOC Policy Debate Team.
Tall Grass Farm Foundation Graduate Fellowship/Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues Endowed Fund for Excellence
This fellowship is part of the Institute for Rural Journalism Endowment. The fellowship recipient is determined by the Director of the School of Journalism and Media, the Director of the IRJ and the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs. A rural female graduate student in the College shall be considered and if none are eligible, then any graduate student in the College who has an interest in rural journalism may apply. This fund was established by Lois Mateus. Mateus was the recipient of the Kentucky Excellence in Public Relations Award in 2004.
Sy Ramsey Reporting and Writing Award
This award is given to students that are full-time juniors or seniors and have demonstrated excellence in writing. It is the donors request that one print and one broadcast award be awarded. Students are asked to submit original work in support of their entry. The award honors the memory of Sy Ramsey, a Frankfort State Capitol correspondent for The Associated Press for 21 years. Ramsey is a member of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame (1984).
Shirley Rose Scholarship
This fund supports a full-time adult learner as defined by the endowment. An adult learner is defined as a student who has responsibilities other than those of a traditional student (i.e. is a single parent or employed full-time). A 500-word essay is required describing your status as an adult learner. Student must show financial need. The scholarship honors Shirley Rose, a 40-year UK employee and undergraduate advisor for the college. Rose retired in 2001.