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Dear Graduate Program Assistants and Graduate Program Directors...
Below, please find information on the Mackenzie King Open and Travelling
Scholarships. Due to a delay in communication between the McKenzie King
scholarship committee and York Univesrity, the dead-line of Febuary 2nd
has been extended to
February 13.
More information and applications are available from: http://www.mkingscholarships.ca/
The dadline date by which applications and all supporting documentation
must be received in FGS, 283 York Lanes is Friday, February 13, 2009.
Students are asked to submit a completed application package by this date
and not have letters and trasncripts arrive separately at FGS.
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The Mackenzie King Scholarships were established as an independent trust
under the will of the late Rt. Hon. William Mackenzie King (1874-1950).
Two classes of Mackenzie King Scholarship are available to graduates of
Canadian universities: the Open Scholarship and the Travelling Scholarship.
Both are to support graduate study.
The Open Scholarship is available to graduates of Canadian universities
who pursue graduate study in any discipline, in Canada or elsewhere. One
Open Scholarship is awarded each year. The value has recently been about
$9,000 but it is subject to change.
The Travelling Scholarship is available to graduates of Canadian universities
who pursue graduate study in the United States or the United Kingdom in
the areas of international relations or industrial relations. Recently
four scholarships of $10,000 each have been awarded annually, but the number
and the amount are subject to change.
A scholarship is available from the Mackenzie King Scholarship Trust for
a graduate of Harvard University to pursue graduate studies at a Canadian
university. Further information about this scholarship is available
from Harvard University, to which application must be made.
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How to apply:
Applications must be made to the Faculty of Graduate Studies of your "home"
university. This is the Canadian university from which you most
recently graduated or at which you are currently enrolled.
You must be a graduate of a Canadian university when tenure of the
scholarship begins.
If your home university has no Faculty of Graduate Studies, please submit
your application to the Awards Office at that university. You may apply
for both scholarships with a single application if the eligibility criteria
are met for both.
A complete application consists of the following, each of which should
be sent directly to the "Mackenzie King Scholarships Competition"
c/o the Faculty of Graduate Studies of your home university:
- The completed and signed application
form (including attached sheets A and B as described on that form).
- Three letters of reference from
persons who have an intimate knowledge of your record and ability and are
able to give a critical evaluation of your plans for postgraduate study.
- At least two of these testimonials
must be from persons under whom you have taken your major work at university,
or from senior colleagues with whom you have been associated in academic
teaching or research.
- Certified copies of official transcripts
of marks and other academic records from each university you have attended.
If a transcript is not available, you may substitute a certified statement
by the Registrar or the Faculty concerned.
All these items must be received by your home university by February
13, 2009.
Please note that applications sent
directly to the Board will not be considered.
All documents will be regarded as confidential and will be retained by
the Board of Scholarship Trustees. The Board assumes no responsibility
for missing documentation.
The Board reserves the right to require a candidate to furnish additional
information or references.
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Eligibility
The Mackenzie King Open Scholarship is open to graduates of any
Canadian university who engage in (commence or continue) postgraduate study
in any field, in Canada or elsewhere.
One Open Scholarship is awarded annually. Its value has lately been $9,000
but is subject to change.
The Mackenzie King Travelling Scholarship is open to graduates of
any Canadian university who engage in (commence or continue) postgraduate
study, in the United States or the United Kingdom, of international relations
or industrial relations (including the international or industrial relations
aspects of law, history, politics and economics).
Mr. King expressed the hope in his will that this scholarship would "afford
to Canadian students in the future opportunities to broaden their outlook
and sympathies and contribute in some measure to that understanding of
the problems and policies of other countries which is the basis of international
good will".
Four Travelling Scholarships of $10,000 have lately been awarded annually,
but the number and value of scholarships are subject to change.