Undergraduate Scholarships

The Department of English offers the following scholarships to undergraduate English majors:

Ernest S. Clifton Memorial Scholarship
This one-year scholarship is open to all undergraduate English majors, including incoming freshmen, and is based on academic performance in English courses, recommendations from two English teachers, and overall academic performance.
(Amount varies)

Arthur Sampley Memorial Scholarship
This one-year scholarship is open to all junior and senior English majors with at least one semester of work completed at UNT. The award is based on excellence in an original piece of fiction, poetry, drama, or in a personal essay. (Amount varies)

English Department Scholarship
This one-year scholarship is open to all junior and senior English majors with at least one semester of work completed at UNT. The award is based on academic performance in college English courses, recommendations from two college English instructors, and overall academic performance. (Amount varies)

Mary E. Whitten Scholarship
This one-year scholarship is open to all undergraduate English majors who are native Texans. The award is based on recommendations from two English teachers and overall academic performance. (Amount varies)

Imogene Bentley Dickey Mohat Scholarship
This one-year scholarship is open to all undergraduate English majors. The award is based on recommendations from two English teachers and overall academic performance. Recipient must be registered for at least 15 semester hours at the time any part of the scholarship is received. (Amount varies)

Mary Patchell Scholarships
These are one-year scholarships for undergraduate English majors. These scholarships require a minimum of 3.5 for English courses, with a minimum of 12 completed hours (or the equivalent) of college English courses, and two letters of recommendation from UNT English instructors. (Amount varies)

Burlage Family Scholarship
This one-year scholarship is open to all undergraduate English majors. The award is based on overall academic performance and letters of recommendation from two college or
university instructors. (Amount varies)

Undergraduate Scholarship Payments and Requirements

Each of the undergraduate scholarships is paid in two installments (fall and spring). The following qualifications apply to all these scholarships:

• Applicants must have a 3.0 GPA on all college work completed, or a total of 1000 on the SAT, or 24 in English on the ACT for entering freshmen.
• The continuation of all scholarships into the second semester is contingent upon a student's maintaining a GPA of 3.0 in at least 12 semester hours of course work (15 for the Mohat) and making at least a grade of B in each English class.
• The student must be enrolled at UNT but does not have to be a Texas resident..

Send completed applications—including name, campus id number (or social security number), address, and telephone number; transcripts; proof of SAT or ACT scores for freshmen; required letters of recommendation in sealed envelopes; proof of native Texas residency, such as a birth certificate for Whitten applicants; and pieces of creative writing for Sampley applicants to the following address no later than March 1 of each year:

Undergraduate Scholarship Applications
Dept. of English
University of North Texas
1155 Union Circle #311307
Denton, TX 76203-5017

Note: Send only one set of materials even if applying for multiple scholarships. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Deadlines
The application deadline for all undergraduate English scholarships is March 1.

Application for Undergraduate Department of
English Scholarhips