Student scholarship contest is OPEN
FIRST PLACE $1,000 & Expense paid trip to 2010 NSNC Convention
SECOND PLACE $500 - THIRD PLACE $250
ENTRY FORM -- NO ENTRY FEE
Undergraduates (including seniors) who write bylined general interest or editorial page columns that appear in the print or on-line editions of college newspapers. A college newspaper is one whose main circulation is on a college campus. Specialized columnists, such as movie reviewers and sports commentators, are not eligible. Columns carrying dual by-lines are eligible but only one prize will be awarded.
Instructions and the entry form are located here. No entry fee is required.
The first-prize winner, determined by judges chosen by the NSNC, will receive a scholarship of $1,000 and will be the guest of the NSNC at its 2010 convention in Bloomington, Ind., July 8-11, 2010. Second-prize winner will receive $500. Third-prize winner will receive $250.
APPLICATION MUST BE POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN MARCH 31, 2010. PLEASE SEND YOUR ENTRY TO: Russell Frank, College of Communications, Carnegie Building, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802.
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 About the National Society of Newspaper Columnists Education Foundation
NSNC Education Foundation is a tax-exempt non-profit foundation devoted to the education and training of new and old columnists everywhere.
The NSNCEF awards annual scholarships to three outstanding student newspaper columnists who write for U.S. college or university undergraduate newspapers. First prize is $1,000. Second prize is $500. Third prize is $250. Tax-deductible contribution to the NSNCEF are accepted. Funds go towards helping train columnists.
The scholarship contest is open to undergraduates (including seniors) who write bylined general interest, editorial page or Op-Ed page columns. Sports columns, movie reviews, magazine columnists and other specialized columns are not eligible. There is no entry fee. One entry for each student newspaper columnist is permitted.
The NSNC Education Foundation is associated with the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, America's largest association of newspaper columnists, founded in 1977. Columnists or retired columnists are eligible to join the NSNC. In addition, anyone who is interested in becoming a columnist or is interested in the craft of column writing is eligible to join, including bloggers and online columnists.
The core mission of the Education Foundation arm of the NSNC is to foster training opportunities for newspaper columnists and others interested in column writing.
Donations may be sent to:
NSNC Education Foundation
c/o Luenna Kim/Executive Director
P.O. Box 411532
San Francisco, CA 94141
For more information about the contest, contact NSNC Education Chairman Russell Frank, Associate Professor, College of Communications, Penn State University, by e-mail at mailto:rfrank@psu.edu or by phone at 814-863-6415.
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Well-traveled Columnist Is NSNC Scholarship Top Winner
 Paul Bowers, who has just completed his sophomore year at the University of South Carolina, is the first-place winner of this year's NSNC college journalism student scholarship. He was awarded the $1,000 scholarship by NSNC Education Chair Russell Frank at the annual NSNC conference in Ventura, Calif., June 25-28, 2009.
This is not the first big win for Bowers, a print journalism major from Charleston, S.C. In March he was chosen by Nicholas Kristoff of the New York Times, another Pulitzer Prize winner, to accompany him on a trip to study poverty in Africa.
His writing career started in middle school writing columns for the Charleston Post and Courier's "ink" section for students. Bowers was editor-in-chief of his high school newspaper in Summerville, a Charleston suburb, and served in various positions at the University of South Carolina student newspaper, The Daily Gamecock.
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College Student Scholarship winners for 2009
Winners of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists Educational Foundation Scholarship Contest were announced May 31st . Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz of the Cleveland Plain Dealer was final judge of the nationwide competition. She offered these comments on the winners:
First place: Paul Bowers, The University of South Carolina
 There are many reasons to hope the newspaper industry survives the current crisis, and that list just got longer after reading Paul Bowers. Let's hope we can read his work for many, many years to come. At a young age, he is already well on his way to meeting a standard only the best columnists ever reach. He is hilarious when the subject calls for a light touch -- I laughed out loud from beginning to end on his "sagging pants" piece -- and dogged when solid reporting is crucial. When he relies heavily on actual reporting, he knows that, ultimately, he must have an opinion, too, and he expresses his views with the logic and grace of a much older writer. "[Have] patience," he writes near the end of a column about a lopsided campus debate on
religious faith. "Let the way you live your life bear witness to the veracity of your claim, and that will speak volumes more than any statistic or talking point." More, please.
Second place: Amy Hanoa, University of California, Berkeley
What a fresh and pithy voice we have in Amy Hanoa. She is an astute observer of life's lessons, and a keen critic of the cultural scene and our willingness to get sucked in by the latest fad. She's also quite funny, and is willing to make herself the butt of some of her best lines. No dreadful "voice of God" opining here. She readily admits to her own failings, and uses them and the glaring missteps of others to say, in various and thoughtful ways: Think, people. Think.
Third place: S.P. Sullivan, University of Massachusetts
S.P. Sullivan knows how to turn a phrase to make readers think hard about their notions of the world. He is a gifted writer, the kind who inspires a reader's busy scribbling in the margins of his column. He's smart, too, and conveys insights in a conversational tone that closes the distance between him and the reader. "That's why they say all politics is local," he writes. "Nobody feels the financial crisis harder than the local people wondering what's going on with that (expletive) bridge."
The contest was open to undergraduates (including seniors) who write bylined general interest, editorial page or Op-Ed page columns. The scholarship contest is an annual event of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. This is the twelfth year of the scholarship contest. NSNC extends appreciation to all who helped make the contest a success.
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