Austin Peay offering $3,000 PELP scholarship to military-affiliated students

(Published July 5, 2019)

Military-affiliated students have an opportunity to earn a $3,000 scholarship at Austin Peay State University through the President’s Emerging Leader Program for the 2019-2020 academic year.

The scholarship offers a variety of PELP course offerings and one credit hour for course completion. Class requirements will center on completion of presentations on leadership, helping a course instructor as a teaching assistant and sharing leadership experience with classmates based on military experience in normal classroom discussions.

Pre-requisites include a minimum eight years of active-duty military service and between 30 and 59 undergraduate credits with a minimum GPA of 3.5.

Applicants must submit the following to browers@apsu.edu no later than Aug. 5, 2019:

Name.
Student A-number.
An essay (300-500 words) answering this question: “What leadership experiences do you possess that would aid in the development of your course classmates? Include a specific example of your leadership in action.”

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