The Bill Walsh Scholarship 2024

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants for all ACES scholarships must be seeking degrees as enrolled college/university juniors, seniors, or graduate students during the fall term of 2024, and demonstrate an interest in editing as a career. Scholarships are awarded without regard to the student’s nationality, residence, or field of academic concentration. 
• The Walsh scholarship will go to an applicant who aspires to edit news and who demonstrates the talent and passion for language to which Bill Walsh devoted his career. Applicants for the other five scholarships should commit to the editing of written materials and demonstrate effectiveness in doing so.
• We’re looking for critical thinkers who have a passion for words and enjoy making writing clear, accurate, and engaging. A student may simultaneously seek both the Walsh Award and one of the other five scholarships.
• Previous scholarship winners are not eligible

Selection: 

The scholarship program is administered (but not judged) by two members of the ACES Education Fund Board, Lisa McLendon and Alex Cruden. Judging of the applications is done by two separate panels of five people each. The selection of winners is a two-step process. In December, the judges choose the finalists, who then take a timed editing test in early January. Test results are then added to the applicants’ portfolios, and a re-judging decides the winners.

Application Deadline: 15th Nov 2023 

Next applications will open in Aug 2024