I'd like to thank the members of the Scholarship Committee – Caroline Abbott (NRCC), Ed Anderson (NVCC), Jim Newsom (TCC), and Joan Tarpley-Robinson (DCC) – for their continuing service on the Committee. In May, Ann Loving will become chair of the Scholarship Committee and will contact you with information about the 2011 award. Meanwhile, be thinking about students you might recommend. Applications are usually due in early June, with the decision made by July.

Criteria include:
1. Intention to major in mathematics, computer science, or mathematics education and demonstrate potential for success in any of these areas. Preference will be given to those candidates who intend to teach mathematics or computer science.
2. Demonstrate ability, determination, and motivation necessary for successful academic performance.
3. Have completed at least 12 semester hours of college-level courses, including 3 hours of transfer mathematics at a Virginia community college by the end of Spring Semester of the year of application with a GPA of 3.2 or higher.
4. Continue for two semesters (Fall - Spring of the award year) at a Virginia community college and enroll in at least 6 semester hours of college-level courses, including a transfer-level mathematics course, for each semester the scholarship is received.

Our current interpretation of these criteria is that students receiving the scholarship be in a math intensive program of study. We have discovered that there exist computer science and education programs for which the terminal math sequence is MTH 163/271 or MTH 157. We have declined to award the scholarship to applicants who have not demonstrated a plan to study mathematics beyond this level. Consequently, we had no scholarship recipient in 2010. If you disagree with this interpretation, please express your views to the 2011 Scholarship Committee.