Eligible Advisors Encouraged to Apply for Mosal Awards
Phi Theta Kappa chapter advisors with three years of service as of April
5 have a unique opportunity to grow personally and professionally through
projects funded by the Mosal
Award Program.
As many as 10 advisors may be selected
to receive Mosal Awards, which carry stipends of $5,000 each. Mosal Awards
are announced at the Association of Chapter Advisors Luncheon, to be held
during the 2008 International Convention in Philadelphia. Recipients
also receive the Mosal Award Medallion.
The Mosal Award Program
provides financial support to advisors wishing to implement and complete
projects relating to personal professional growth - defined as "advancement,
improvement, increase in knowledge, or general progress towards maturity
in one's profession beyond earned degrees, pursued out of the individual
desire for betterment or personal interest in the undertaking."
The Mosal Award application
form is available online. The submission deadline is February
22.
In 2007, Mosal Awards were presented to advisors Jeff Edwards
and Dr. Brent Kendrick.
Edwards' award-winning proposal was
Touring History: Tracing the Evolution of Political Economy in Scotland,
England, and France. Edwards is a professor of economics at Holmes
Community College in Mississippi and at Cy-Fair College in Texas.
Dr.
Kendrick, an English professor at Lord Fairfax Community College in Virginia,
received a Mosal Award for Celebrating 400 Years of Virginia Writers:
John Smith to Lee Smith.
Visit the Phi Theta Kappa Mosal
Award website to read the 2007 award-winning proposals.
Advisors
whose terms began on or before April 5, 2005, (three years before the date
of the Awards Ceremony at the 2008 International Convention), are eligible
to apply. Potential applicants who are unsure of their advisor start-date
should contact Phi Theta Kappa Headquarters to determine whether or not
they are eligible.
Unlike other Phi Theta Kappa recognition
programs for chapter advisors, the Mosal Award Program bases selection
on growth potential rather than achievements in Phi Theta Kappa programming.
The Mosal Awards honor the memory of the late Dr. Margaret Mosal,
Phi Theta Kappa's former Executive Director.
