Scholarship

 

2013 Garth & Marie Jones Scholarship

 

 

What you could receive:

Two scholarships will be awarded that will pay up to $2000 for tuition and fees for 2013 Spring Semester.  Note: This scholarship is restricted to tuition and fees for 2013 Spring Semester.  If you have other financial aid covering tuition and fees for the 2013 Spring Semester you are not eligible to receive this scholarship.  Please feel free to contact the Mountain West Center listed below with any questions.

 

Who can apply:

This scholarship is for USU junior or senior undergraduate students and graduate students with a record of high academic achievement and community service, majoring in one or more of the following: Communications; English; History; Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication; Liberal Arts and Sciences; Political Science; Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology; Religious Studies; or Economics. Expected graduation date must not be before May 2013. Applicants from the rural parts of Utah, southeastern Idaho, and southwestern Wyoming will be given preference in selection.

 

How to apply:

Please submit a letter of application, a resume, a current USU transcript (unofficial transcripts are acceptable) or a transcript from previous colleges (for transfer students), and the names and contact information of three references.  There is no application form. Your letter should describe your interests, your experience, and your community service, as well as why you are interested in this scholarship. It should also demonstrate a connection to the rural West and an interest in studying and understanding the Mountain West and its people, including the politics of the West. Please submit your application simply stapled. Do not submit it in a folder or binder. If you choose to submit photos (this is not required), please limit the number to three. (Please be sure to include your contact information: mailing address, email, phone number, including where and how you can be reached over the Christmas holidays as well as at school.)

 

Selection of recipient shall be made by the scholarship committee of the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

 

For more information, please call 435-797-0299 or stop by Old Main, Room 339.  Applications must be received by 5:00 P.M. on Monday, November 19, 2012. Submit all application materials to:

          

Jones Scholarship

Mountain West Center for Regional Studies

Utah State University

Old Main 339

UMC 0735
Logan, UT 84322-0735

The scholarship recipients will be notified in December. 

Garth N. and Marie Jones

Garth Jones was born in Salt Lake City, Utah.  He graduated from Utah State University in 1947 with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Economics.  He earned his Master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Utah.  His career made him a student of Third World development for over five decades, mainly in South and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Basin.  He has lived for extended periods in Micronesia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Taiwan under the auspices of U.S. Interior Department, US/AID, Ford Foundation, United Nations, World Bank and other technical assistance agencies.  His primary fields of interest are organizational theory and public policy analysis – especially in the areas of complex, irrigated agriculture and population programs.  He is the founding Dean of the University of Alaska Anchorage’s College of Business and Public Policy.

 

Marie was born in Roosevelt, Utah.  She graduated from Brigham Young University in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Instruction certified to teach social studies and history.  Marie lived in very diverse and exotic locations throughout her life, yet she never forgot her rural Utah roots.  In Pakistan, Marie taught the first university co-ed course at the University of the Punjab and instructed high level government officials at the National Institute of Public Administration.  In each community where she lived she was very active in volunteer service and was well known for her charity and compassion.  She was honored in 2006 by the BYU Department of Theater and Media Arts with a lifetime community service award.  Marie passed away on November 4, 2010.

 

Garth and Marie Jones were married September 29, 1950 and are the parents of three sons.