Whitten Maher Memorial Scholarship Endowment for Writing and Design-School of Writing, Rhetoric & Technical Communication

An endowed scholarship established to honor the life of James Madison University (JMU) alum, Whitten Maher, whose death on December 20, 2012 prematurely ended the great potential that many recognized in his writing and designs. This scholarship is non-renewable.

This scholarship will acknowledge and support undergraduate works that convey compassion, intensity and well-informed reason. Such text or design-based work will aim to educate and respectfully engage audiences. This scholarship will provide the financial resources to support an annual scholarship for one or more students, identified as Whitten Maher Memorial Scholars. To be eligible for this scholarship, a student must:

• be currently enrolled in either full or part-time undergraduate studies in any academic discipline
• have created an outstanding written composition and/or design that does at least one of the following:
1) educates audiences through a civic purpose
2) promotes empathy rather than derision, and
3) seeks to encourage populations who feel unrecognized or misunderstood

The Whitten Maher Memorial Scholarship is not renewable and once a student has been awarded this scholarship they are not eligible to receive it again. Beyond the above criteria, the appointment of students to receive this scholarship shall follow the university’s guidelines for the awarding of scholarships.

Please visit the Whitten Maher Memorial Scholarship website for further descriptions and information about this scholarship.