Millersville Noonan and SGRCA Grants Now Available

Noonan Grants

Students can earn up to $500 toward scholarly activities by applying for Millersville’s Noonan Grants.  If you have a trip, conference, or creative event  that requires funding, check out the Noonan grants to see if the activity qualifies for funding.

For more information, check out the Noonan Grant website and read the Noonan Guidelines.
The application is due on October 2, 2017 by 11:59 pm.

Please note: Typically, the committee has approved funding for active student participation in conferences and performance competitions, field trips, and programs bringing speakers/consultants/activities to the campus for the benefit of large numbers of students. Generally, grants are limited to transportation, registration, and admissions fees. The committee does not fund meals and lodging; these costs must be borne by the student or another sponsoring group. Noonan requests may not exceed $500.00.

Student Grants for Research and Creative Activity (SGRCA)

These grants are for research or creative projects for both undergraduates or graduate students.  Please review the SGRCA Guidelines for more information on the purposes, requirements, and deadlines for this grant.

The application is due September 25th 2017.

Types of Proposals Funded:
1.  Activities involving student participation, such as performances, competitions, or other presentations at state, regional, or national conferences/meetings. Admission, competition, registration, and transportation costs will be covered up to the maximum award amount.
2.  Support for travel involving a group of students to present research papers may also be requested.
3.  Computer runs / processing charges.
4.  Survey compilations / reproductions charges /mailing costs.
5.  Archival, library and museum fees for research purposes, with associated travel costs/mileage.
6.  Purchase of equipment, materials and supplies.
7.  Purchase of books, DVDs CDs, CD-ROMs, etc.
8.  Photocopies.
9.  Publishing page charges. (Attach verification)
10. Shared research or creative projects.

Scholarships App

Throughout our years here at Millersville, English professors have worried about how our students often have to split their time between learning and working.  As professors, we want our students to get the most out of our teaching, and it’s difficult to engage students who are tired or underprepared to do their best.  The English faculty often wished there was some way to make it so that our students didn’t have to work while taking courses.

While English doesn’t have the funding to free everyone from work, we do want to offer an opportunity that may help a significant number of you who are willing to take the initiative to find your own funding.  It’s called Scholly, a scholarship-finding application that English will now provide free to its students and that they will then have for their lifetimes (grad school awaits!).

To get this app, please email englishoffice@millersville.edu from your millersville email with your name and M#, stating that you are an English student.  You will be sent back an activation code that you can then use to set up your own personal Scholly account, customized with your unique qualifications. The rest is up to you. I do ask that if you score a scholarship, you let us know at englishoffice@millersville.edu—we want to know whether this app is useful for future students.

In addition to this app (free to you), the following sites are recommended by http://www.financialaidfinder.com:

  • FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Listings
  • FastWeb Database contains more 1.3 million scholarships worth over $3 billion.
  • College Board Database has over $3 billion in aid from 2,300 sources.
  • Sallie Mae American’s leader in college lending provides access to award-winning database with over $16 billion in scholarships from 2.8 million sources.
  • Scholarship Experts Forbes.com’s vote for best scholarship search engine.  2.4 million scholarship and fellowship programs totaling $14 billion. Customized list of scholarships that match student’s hobbies, interests and academic background.
In the hopes that this can help some of you find more time to enjoy reading, writing, viewing, learning, and culture in general.
— Jill Craven, Chair of English

Grand Opening of the Writing Center

Come join us for the Grand Opening of the Writing Center in the McNairy Library room 106 on September 18th at 4pm.  President Anderson will attend, and Associate Provost Adams will supply cookies (and Starbuck’s is right across the hall).  We hope this new location in the library will enable more students to work with Writing Center consultants to improve their prose.

The Writing Center can help with all sorts of writing, and work with students at all stages of the composition process (from prewriting to the editing phase).  Appointments with consultants last for half an hour, and students can either make appointments or drop in.  The Center also accepts online submission of papers if students want just written feedback.  For more information, see the Writing Center webpage.

The new writing center will open for business on Monday Sept. 11th.

Its hours:

    • Sun. 6:00pm-9:00pm
    • M-R 1:00pm-9:00pm

Students who are interested in becoming writing  tutors can go to the following link and fill out this application.
Find out more information by talking to Writing Center Director Dr. Bill Archibald in Chryst 104.