James Seamus Treanor Endowed Scholarship in Philosophy (ST0017)

Each year the Department of Philosophy will announce and open applications for the Treanor Scholarship. Applicants will be asked to submit a one-page statement on this topic, why I find the study of philosophy valuable.

Student responses must be submitted to the Department Chair by March 1 through the BOSS portal.

A committee appointed by the chair will review the submitted responses. The committee will select the submission that, in the judgment of the committee members, best answers the challenge.

The author of the winning response will be awarded an academic scholarship for the following academic year.

Additional criteria:

• Overall GPA 3.0 or higher
• Must be enrolled in a Philosophy course at time of application, be a philosophy major, or a philosophy minor
• Open to both graduate and undergraduate students.

For questions on this scholarship please contact philosophy@txstate.edu or call (512) 245-2285.