Announcing The UW System's Eighth Annual
Liberal Arts Essay Scholarship Competition

Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin
System Advisory Group on the Liberal Arts (SAGLA)

The UW System Advisory Group on the Liberal Arts (SAGLA) is pleased to announce the eighth annual Liberal Arts Essay Scholarship Competition.

Award

Three awards for $2,000 each are available (one to a student from the UW Colleges and two to students from the UW comprehensive and doctoral institutions).

Eligibility

This year's competition is open to any UW System undergraduate student in academic good standing.

This year's topic:

Over the past two years, we have seen a Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election and a presidential race that both generated a great deal of civic discourse. How has your liberal education helped you process, develop informed opinions, and make decisions about what you see and hear and guided your participation as a citizen? How has your liberal education helped you interact with people with whom you disagree on the events that have taken place?

Feel free to choose a single experience or an array of experiences, whichever best fits the development of your own liberal education.  Your essay should create a clear picture of the experience(s) and should also make a clear connection between your experience(s) and your liberal education.

As you plan your essay, you may wish to check on the liberal education learning outcomes at  http://www.aacu.org/leap/vision.cfm .  Some of these outcomes could help inform your understanding of the larger framework of liberal education.

NOTE: All submissions are to be original essays, 1,000-1,250 words in length, typed, double-spaced. Each essay must include a title page with the following information: title of essay, student's name, major, institution, college and home address, e-mail address, telephone number, and the following statement: “I hereby affirm that this is an original essay and my own work.”

Submission/Selection

Please submit your essays to Kari Heidenreich (heidenreka12@uww.edu) in the Provost's Office no later than February 1, 2013. Up to three students may be selected as finalists in our campus competition and will receive a campus award in the amount of $500. In addition, they will be recognized at the University Writing Awards Ceremony in April.

Final selection of winning essays will be determined by a group of judges from the UW System Advisory Group on the Liberal Arts (SAGLA). Recipients will be notified in spring 2013.