Ione Dodson Young Endowed Scholarship (SY6338)

The Ione Dodson Young Endowed Scholarship honors a distinguished professor who taught at Texas State from 1955 to 1973 and was very well-known for her courses in nineteenth-century English literature. Professor Young also taught technical writing, directed over fifteen MA theses, chaired the Freshman English Committee, and served as Director of Freshman English for three years. Her reference book, A Concordance to the Poetry of Byron (1965), has long been considered a standard work. The Ione Dodson Young Endowed Scholarship is restricted to full-time upper-level undergraduate or graduate students majoring in English.

Students eligible for this scholarship will:

• Be enrolled and complete coursework as a full time English major student each semester of the academic year for which the scholarship is held. Students graduating Fall term of the academic year for which the scholarship is held are not eligible for the scholarship.
• Be enrolled in at least one English course each semester of the academic year for which the scholarship is held.
• Maintain at least a 3.0 GPA in the Fall in order to receive the scholarship for the Spring.
• Recipient will be a U.S. Citizen, Permanent Resident, or Resident Alien of good character

If you have any questions about this scholarship, please consult the English Scholarship FAQ here: https://www.english.txstate.edu/studentres/scholarships.html. If you have further questions, contact (512) 245-2163 or liberalarts@txstate.edu.