Rose E. Parker Graduate Student Scholarship
This award includes a minimum of $500 cash award and the inscription of the student recipient's name on a permanent department plaque. This annual award is presented at the Graduate Student Reception and scholarship recognition in late Spring of each year. The recipient must be a current special education graduate student who plans to graduate in May, August, or December of the calendar year in which the award is given. The recipient must be nominated by a graduate faculty member. Selection is based upon scholarship and service. Consideration is given for teaching, professional presentations, research conducted, publications, collaboration with faculty, service to the profession, and similar documentation of commitment and service to the profession of special education. Assets of this endowment are invested in the ISU Endowment Investment Pool. The Rose E. Parker Graduate Student Scholarship was established in 1989 through a gift from the Rose E. Parker Trust. The fund provides financial support for a graduate student in the Special Education Department who intended to teach children with disabilities. Candidates much be enrolled in good standing at Illinois State University as a graduate student in the Department of Special Education's master's, doctoral, or Director of Special Education (DOSE) program, with at least 9 credits completed in their degree program.