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| COH W.E.B. Du Bois Scholarship |
The College of Humanities is pleased to announce the W.E.B. Du Bois Scholarships. In offering these awards, the College of Humanities encourages students to explore the Du Bois legacy by majoring in the liberal arts, specifically in a field of study housed in the UA College of Humanities.
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The College of Humanities is hoping to offer two scholarship awards of $3,000 each in honor of the great scholar and educator, W.E.B. Du Bois, who dedicated his life to the cause of African American empowerment, to two high school seniors familiar with and actively involved with African American culture and activities who meet the following criteria:
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APPLICATION PROCEDURE The official application form for the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Scholarship can be downloaded at http://coh.arizona.edu/dubois.pdf. The application form is also available at the UA College of Humanities Dean's Office: 621-9294. Required application materials will include personal information-including high school transcript-, letters of recommendation, and a 300-400-word essay on the importance of higher education and the manner that the student's pursuit of a college education at The University of Arizona will meet his/her vocational goals and serve underserved communities. The completed application form and all required materials are due on March 14, 2007. Materials should be sent to: Dean Charles Tatum To apply for this scholarship, a student must already be admitted to The University of Arizona as a freshman for Fall 2007. Additionally, the student should submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form (FAFSA) for 2007-2008 by February 14, 2007 to meet The University of Arizona suggested financial aid deadline. The FAFSA form can be picked up in high school counseling offices or can be found on-line at www.fafsa.ed.gov |
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT Pat Brooks
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W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the greatest scholars, thinkers, and writers of the 20 th century. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1868, W. E. B. Du Bois went on to graduate from Fisk University, studied at the University of Berlin, and graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in philosophy (cum laude) and Ph.D. in History in 1895. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Clark University, Wilberforce University, and Atlanta University. Du Bois founded the NAACP in 1909 and was a pioneer of the Pan African movement. He was the author of numerous books including the renowned classic, The Souls of Black Folk, The Suppression of the Slave Trade to the United States of America , The Philadelphia Negro , that became the foundation for the emergence of urban sociology, Black Reconstruction in America , The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois , The World and Africa , Color and Democracy , In Battle for Peace , and novels and prose such as Dusk of Dawn, A Pageant of Seven Decades , The Quest of the Silver Fleece , Dark Princess, and Dark Water . He was the founder of Crisis, the publication of the NAACP, at forty-two, and Phylon , a scholarly journal on Africana experience, at seventy-two. At ninety-two, he co-founded the socialist quarterly, Freedomways , and launched the Encyclopedia Africana at the age of ninety-three. "We want our children educated...Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States." — W.E.B. Du Bois W.E.B. Du Bois was the prototype of the activist scholar, organizer, and writer, par excellence . His dedication to the upliftment of the Africana community in particular, and downtrodden humanity in general, through tireless educational pursuit, is a model for all students and educators from every quarter of the globe. He was a true Renaissance person in every sense of the word. |
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