Prof. Ahang Beny’s Scholarship: Calls For Proposals From South Sudan Universities
Ahang Beny’s Scholarship: Calls For Proposals From S. Sudan Universities
“The winners will be required to verify their enrollment in one of South Sudan’s universities…”
14 January 2012
Call For Applications For the Professor Ahang Beny Scholarship for Students in South Sudanese Universities
It is with great pleasure and anticipation that we the children of Professor Ambrose Ahang Beny, Laura Nyangtung and John Rin Beny, inaugurate the above titled scholarship in our late father’s name. We seek in some small, yet positive, way to advance the hopes, dreams and aspirations of South Sudan’s next generation of youngsters!
Our father unequivocally devoted his life to education and the Letters. Professor Beny, an avid and brilliant scholar, taught English/African Literature at the University of Juba, South Sudan from 1980 to 1987. Moreover, he wasn’t merely interested in his own training (or that of his seven children) but also cared deeply about the plight of his country’s pupils at the primary through university levels. Like many of his colleagues at the University of Juba, he strongly believed a prosperous and enlightened South Sudan could be achieved by unceasingly supporting plus strengthening the country’s institutions of learning; “from the ground up”, he would probably say.
ESSAYS: In this vein, my sister and I seek essays of no more than 500 words, each, from entering and current college students. (Initially, this call for papers will target first through fourth year collegians attending universities across South Sudan.
However, if our efforts prove successful, the scholarship will be expanded to include primary and senior secondary school students in the years to come.) In your essay, you should discuss your academic achievements to date and your academic goals for the future, including how this scholarship would advance your educational aims.
Interested or aspiring, “authors” can write on any subject/topic of their choosing. Importantly, the submissions should address issues that are of “relevance” and import to South Sudanese. (“Frivolous” or clearly unserious write–ups will immediately be rejected and discarded.)
In the Ahang Beny Scholarship’s first year, 2012, my sister and I will act as judges. Final papers, e–mailed for consideration by the two of us, should be devoid of glaring grammatical, or syntax errors, typos, misspelled words, etc.
We will select one winning paper and a runner up. The winner will receive $2,000.00 USD and the second–place finisher will be given $1,000.00 USD.
Award of Ahang Beny Scholarship monies is contingent on the official opening of the country’s universities. The winners will be required to verify their enrollment in one of South Sudan’s universities and funds will be disbursed directly to the respective educational institution for payment of tuition expenses. The prizes are to be used in advancing the recipient’s higher education, no more. Any remaining funds will be retained in a custodial account to cover subsequent school fees.
The following info details deadlines and contact particulars:
1.Due date/time is 16 Apr 12, no later than 5:00 pm South Sudan local time. Late submissions will be returned.
2.Papers are to be e–mailed to ahangscholarship@gmail.com, again not later than 5:00 pm, South Sudan local time.
Thank you for your time and welcomed participation. It is our hope that this effort, though only a small beginning at this juncture, will greatly encourage South Sudan’s youth and young adults to aggressively and tenaciously pursue an education. Knowledge is power and an educated polity can move the highest mountains or seemingly intractable barriers. There’s no time to waste and much to learn/do; in our shinning historic moment, “patience” is a virtue reserved for those who wish to be left behind by human progress. Let’s get on with it right now!
Signed: Laura Nyangtung and John Rin Beny
*Laura Nyantung Beny is Visiting Professor of Law, Duke University (2012) and Professor of Law, University of Michigan, USA
Source: Gurtong.org
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