McJulien Minority Graduate
Scholarship Award

The ECT Foundation's McJulien Minority Graduate Scholarship Award is presented to a minority graduate student in educational communications and technology.

The awardee receives a plaque presented during the awards ceremony at the 2010 annual convention to be held October 26-30, 2010 at Hyatt Regency Orange County, Anaheim, California.

Background

The McJulien Minority Graduate Scholarship Award was established by Wes McJulien, past president of AECT and member of the ECT Foundation, in memory of his son, Patrick D. McJulien.

Criteria:

1. The applicant must be a full-time graduate student enrolled in a degree granting program in educational technology at the Masters, (MS), Specialist (Ed.S.) or Doctoral (Ph.D./Ed.D.) level.

2. The applicant must provide evidence of an average of "B" or better to be considered for this award.

3. The applicant must be member of AECT.

4. Recommendations from three references must be submitted in order for the application to be considered.

5. The winner will be selected by AECT's awards committee with recommendations solicited from the national affiliate Minorities in Media.

Procedure:

To submit a nomination complete the form. Please click here.

Deadline:

Deadline for nominations is July 29th, 2010.

Contact:

For additional information please contact Denise Tolbert, MIM president, at dtolbert@nu.edu

ECT FOUNDATION

The ECT Foundation is the non-profit foundation of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) and was established to carry out the purposes and programs of AECT that are charitable and educational in nature. The ECT Foundation funds an extensive awards program that promotes scholarship and leadership in the field of educational communications and technology at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Because it is a non-profit organization, all donations to the ECT Foundation are tax-deductible. Financial gifts to support its many programs are welcome. For additional information or to make a donation, write to ECT Foundation, c/o AECT, 1800 N. Stonelake Dr., Suite 2, Bloomington, IN 47404.

Minorities in Media

Minorities in Media's purpose is to encourage the effective utilization of educational media in the teaching-learning process; to provide leadership opportunities in advancing the use of technology as an integral part of the learning process; to provide a vehicle through which minorities might influence the utilization of media in institutions; to develop an information exchange network common to minorities in media; to study, evaluate, and refine the educational technology process as it relates to the education of minorities and to encourage and improve the production of effective materials for the education of minorities.