Scholarships, Awards & Honors

Scholarships & Honors

Gold Pen Award

Any KSU student may enter this prestigious writing competition by submitting three (3) copies of a substantial undergraduate essay (8-12 pages with appropriate citations and bibliography) written for any KSU history class held between January and December of the previous year. Contact information, class title and professor, semester and year class was taken are required. The winner receives a gold pen of excellent quality, suitably engraved, together with a certificate of distinguished achievement and a $200 check. Submissions are accepted in early March and the award winner is announced sometime around the beginning of April.

Whitney Scholarship

Kent campus history majors are nominated for committee review by a history faculty member. The student needs to have a Cumulative GPA of 3.3 or better and a history GPA of 3.5.  The award is announced sometime around the beginning of April.

Honors

Majors in History may choose to write a Senior Honors Thesis through the auspices of the Honors College. The Department encourages such scholarly excellence. Several Honors Theses completed in the last decade have been published in part in scholarly journals.