{"id":52,"date":"2020-02-06T00:23:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T00:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2020-02-10T18:26:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T18:26:41","slug":"truman-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/scholarship-details\/truman-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Truman Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background:<\/strong>\u00a0 The United States Congress established the Harry S. Truman Scholarship competition in 1975 to honor the nation\u2019s 33rd president. The scholarship provides $3,000 for the senior year and $27,000 for students preparing for careers in government or public service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Scholarships:<\/strong>\u00a0 About 70 scholarships are awarded annually to college juniors; the competition is based on state of home residence, and at least one scholarship is awarded to each state and to the American territories. A few at-large scholarships are awarded. Although the scholarship is primarily for graduate studies leading to a career in public service (interpreted broadly), $3,000 is provided for the senior year in college.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong>\u00a0 The application consists of a transcript (students must be in the upper quarter of their college classes, but a 3.6 or above GPA is expected), information about activities, a series of paragraph-long responses about leadership experiences and career goals, an essay on an issue of public policy, and three letters of recommendation, plus the university\u2019s letter of endorsement. A good application generally takes 20 to 40 hours to prepare and review.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who Should Apply:<\/strong>\u00a0 Students (U.S. citizens) with excellent grades, documented leadership, public service activities (especially working on campaigns or for someone in politics), and a record of community service who wish to earn a degree that will lead to a career in the public or private nonprofit sector should consider applying for a Truman Scholarship. The foundation is looking for \u201cchange agents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong>\u00a0 Three letters of recommendation, plus a university endorsement, written by the Truman Faculty Representative, are required. One letter must discuss the candidate\u2019s potential for graduate study; one, potential for public service; one must address the leadership experience the candidate has described. The university\u2019s letter of endorsement is formed in part by the on-campus interview with the Truman Selection Committee, in part by discussion with the candidate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More Information:<\/strong> Visit the <a class=\"ApplyClass\" title=\"Truman Scholarships website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truman.gov\/\">Truman Scholarships website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background:\u00a0 The United States Congress established the Harry S. Truman Scholarship competition in 1975 to honor the nation\u2019s 33rd president. The scholarship provides $3,000 for the senior year and $27,000 for students preparing for careers in government or public service. The Scholarships:\u00a0 About 70 scholarships are awarded annually to college juniors; the competition is based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}