Colo- r ander- Wake Geor- messee ike H, South h Rice Texas :e 20, laho 7; olorado ng 7; Oregon lington i Dark udds-on intucky ■ # *■ k- ^ 311! Sr i-:., Scholarship Nominations Open Special To The Battalion PRINCETON, N. J.—An elec tion campaign promising rich re wards for the successful candi dates gets under way Monday as thousands of faculty members from universities and colleges in the United States and Canada be gin to nominate college seniors for Woodrow Wilson graduate fel lowships. In announcing the opening of the competition for the academic year 1961-62, Dr. Hugh Taylor, President of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, estimated that well over 9,000 students will be nominated by the closing date of Oct. 31. Designed to reduce a nation wide shortage of qualified college teachers, the program annually awards 1,000 fellowships for the first year graduate study at any university of the recipient’s choice in the United States or Canada. Candidates are elected only after rigorous screening and personal interviews by one of fifteen re gional committees of educators. Each elected fellow receives a $1,500 stipend for living expenses plus full tuition and family allow ances. Open To Graduates The program is open to college graduates mainly in the humani ties and social sciences. Both men and women are eligible, and there is no limit on the age of the can didate or on the number of years he may have been out of college. Those who receive awards are not asked to commit themselves to col lege teaching, but merely to “con sider it seriously” as a possible career. The program, designed to en courage college seniors of out standing ability to study for ad vanced degrees with faculty jobs as their goal, is administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation under a $24,500,000 five-year grant from the Ford Foundation. Dr. Hans Rosenhaupt, National Director of the Wilson Fellowship Foundation, in an analysis of the past five years’ activities, reported that the highly selected grants have been awarded to graduates from 560 different colleges. This is convincing proof that many col leges throughout the country, not only the few well-known ones, of fer high quality education. Almost 90 per cent of all the 1,000 Fellows in 1959-60 continued study after the first year, and more than 75 per cent of all Fel lows eventually end up in aca demic positions. Of the nominated candidates who failed to win Woodrow Wilson Fellowships more than 80 per cent, Dr. Rosenhaupt Swimmers To Start Working—Page 4 said, went on to graduate school anyway, often with financial help from other sources. He estimated the annual need for new college teachers at 30,000 a year for the next ten years. No Direct Applications The Woodrow Wilson National | Fellowship Foundation does not accept applications directly from students. Every candidate for the | award must be nominated by a faculty member. Nominated stu dents are invited to declare them selves active candidates for the award by sending the necessary application forms to the chairman of the selection committee for the region in which the prospective candidate is now located. A list of the fifteen regions and the names of the regional chair men may be obtained from the .Foundation’s national headquar ters, Box 642, Princeton, N. J., or from the Woodrow Wilson repre sentative on any campus in the United States and Canada. Names of fellowship winners will be made known by Mar. 15, 1961. % V issa wBmBm i»sii Dinner-Dances Begin A near capacity crowd of A&M faculty and staff Dinner-Dance meetings. Here the staff members turned out last night for faculty and staff members dance following the first of the year’s series of Faculty and an initial banquet session.