The Linders Community Cultural Harmony Week (CCHW) Scholarship
Deadline Date for Application: September 18, 2009
NameThis scholarship, known as the Linders Community Cultural Harmony Week Scholarship, will be awarded in the amount of $500. Clark and Christy Linders have been outstanding supporters of the CCHW throughout the years and have fully funded a CCHW Scholarship since 2005.
HistoryK-State student Barbara Baker founded Racial/Ethnic Harmony Week in 1988 with the support of Student Governing Association president Laurian Cuffy and his cabinet. This week was created to develop a welcome presence for the leadership of people of color in campus and community life. Though the work of Ms. Baker targeted general problems and concerns of both U.S. and international citizens, the week was the direct result of an unfortunate incident that occurred in what was then Bushwacker’s Club in Aggieville in June of 1988. Puerto Rican students had rented the club to celebrate the day of San Juan (St. John the Baptist), the patron saint of the island and capital city. Bushwacker’s employees hung signs using obscene language that referenced San Juan. The case was finally taken to the state attorney general’s office, with a decision against Bushwacker’s for its actions. According to Ms. Baker, “It was our hope that a Racial/Ethnic Harmony Association would be developed to continue the dialogues of multiracial harmony as it pertained to local campus and community issues. We knew the week would sometimes be controversial and some people would not understand its intent. But we had faith in the vision that our society can hear and then see truth together, dialogue about solutions together, heal together and change together.” Ms. Baker adds that these events are for everyone: “We need European American voices and leadership, but we also need the voices and leadership from African, Native, Latino/a, and Asian Americans. Until we truly have equalized the vision of people of color toward how we can achieve an equitable society, we must have an event called Racial/Ethnic Harmony Week.”
Racial/Ethnic Harmony Week has spread beyond the boarders of K-State to include the Manhattan community and school district. In 2002, Racial/Ethnic Harmony Week was changed to Community Cultural Harmony Week to bridge all the rich diversity in our communities, bringing us together to learn and grow.
ScholarshipThe applicant of the scholarship must meet the following criteria in order to receive
Eligibilitythe scholarship:
- The applicant may be any K-State undergraduate or graduate student who is
committed to social justice issues related to a multicultural society.
- Applicants should be currently enrolled at Kansas State University as a fulltime
undergraduate or graduate student and must be enrolled as a fulltime undergraduate or graduate student at Kansas State University while receiving the award.
3. Applicants must complete an application.
- Applicants must write a two-page essay reflecting on how he/she has contributed, and plans in the future to contribute, to social justice issues related to a multicultural society.
5. Applicants must provide two letters of reference. Reference letters should validate
the applicant’s academic and leadership achievements and should verify that the applicant is successfully progressing toward graduation.
6. A copy of the applicant’s academic transcript must be included with the application.
7. Submit the Release of Information Form signed and dated by the applicant.
EligibilityIf the applicant does not submit all of the above information, the applicant will not
Notificationbe considered eligible for the scholarship.
Selection andThe recipient will be chosen by a scholarship committee of university and community
Time Linerepresentatives. The applicants will be informed by e-mail of the award selection.
The scholarship recipient will be acknowledged during Community Cultural Harmony Week at the Banquet – Friday, September 25, 2009. The banquet activities will begin at (noon) 12:00 PM in the K-S-U Ballroom in the K-State Student Union
The scholarship will be awarded for spring semester and the check will be made to
Kansas State University for a tuition stipend.
The Linders Community Cultural Harmony Week (CCHW) Scholarship
Application
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* Scholarship applicants must write a 2-page summary on how they have in the past and how they plan in the future to contribute to multicultural social justice issues in society. Please be as specific as possible.
Applicants must sign a Release of Information form (included with this application) so the scholarship committee can verify student financial assistance and employment income.
Deadline date for applications and summary: Friday, September 18, 2009
All applicants will be notified as to the status of their application.
The recipient will be invited to attend the Community Cultural Harmony Week Banquet for special recognition.
Release of Information
I, ______, give the Community Cultural Harmony Scholarship Committee permission to verify financial assistance with the Office of Student Financial Assistance and to check on sources of income obtained from employment.
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Return Completed Application to:Gayle Spencer, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean of Student Life
Office of Student Activities and Services
809 K-State Student Union
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
(785) 532-6541
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