Data from Hank Fuller, Director of Financial Aid

Scholarship Committee

Annual Report 2006-2007

Prepared by Wes Jones, Chair

Data from Hank Fuller, Director of Financial Aid

The members of the committee for the 2006-207 academic year were:

Hank Fuller, Director of Financial Aid, invited three groups of candidates to visit The Citadel and compete for academic scholarships. The total number of students visiting campus was 97. The visit dates and subsequent committee meeting dates were:

November 2-3, 2006 Meetings scheduled for November 9 & 16, 2006

January 25-26, 2007 Meetings scheduled for February 1 & 8, 2007

March 2, 2007 Meetings scheduled for March 8 & 15, 2007

The committee voted to offer full academic scholarships to the 40 students listed in table 1. Of the 40 students offered full scholarships, 15 (38%) were from South Carolina and 26 (62%) were from out of state. Table 2 shows the average academic credentials of the students offered full scholarships versus the students offered partial scholarships.

Additionally, the committee piloted a decision support system developed by Professor Rudolph. The system will be utilized again in the 2007-2008 academic to enhance the committee’s decision making. Minutes of all committee meetings are appended to this report.

Respectfully submitted,

Wesley M. Jones, Jr., Ph.D.

Scholarship Committee Chair AY 2006-2007

Citadel Scholarship Committee AY 06-07

Meeting notes

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Members present:

The meeting was called to order at 11:05 am by interim chair, Dr. Jones (BADM).

Acknowledging the presence of a quorum, the floor was opened for nominations for committee chair for the AY 06-07. The result of the election was that Dr. Jones (BADM) was elected chair for the current academic year.

LtC. Fuller proceeded to give a briefing about the procedures of the committee for the benefit of all members.

The committee will meet in about 3 weeks to finalize the essay questions to be asked this year and to discuss any procedural changes.

Scholar visits are scheduled for the following dates with committee meetings scheduled for the two Thursdays following the scholar visits

November 2-3, 2006 Meetings scheduled for November 9 & 16, 2006

January 25-26, 2007 Meetings scheduled for February 1 & 8, 2007

March 2, 2007 Meetings scheduled for March 8 & 15, 2007

Respectfully submitted,

Wesley M. Jones, Jr., Ph.D.

Chair, Citadel Scholarship Committee 2006-2007

Citadel Scholarship Committee AY 06-07

Meeting notes

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Members present:

The meeting was called to order at 11:05 am by chair, Dr. Jones (BADM).

Acknowledging the presence of a quorum, the floor was opened for nominations for questions to be included in the scholarship application process. Four existing questions and 3 additional question ideas were nominated. The committee decided to table the additional, unwritten, question ideas for this year’s scholarship competition, but Dr. Wehrman, Dr. Zardus, and Dr. Speelman will each provide questions for subsequent year consideration. Three of the four questions were selected for inclusion in this year’s competition. The questions, attached to these notes, related to:

Hurricane Katrina

Global Warming

Plagarism

LtC. Fuller gave a brief overview of the interview procedure.

Dr. Rudolph will forward to the committee members an evaluation rubric for written work related to the critical thinking process that we can all utilize when reading the essays submitted by scholarship competitors. This will add some consistency to the evaluation process.

The committee will not be scheduled to meet again until after the first round of interviews in early November.

Scholar visits are scheduled for the following dates with committee meetings scheduled for the two Thursdays following the scholar visits

November 2-3, 2006 Meetings scheduled for November 9 & 16, 2006

January 25-26, 2007 Meetings scheduled for February 1 & 8, 2007

March 2, 2007 Meetings scheduled for March 8 & 15, 2007

Respectfully submitted,

Wesley M. Jones, Jr., Ph.D.

Chair, Citadel Scholarship Committee 2006-2007

To: Members of The Citadel Scholarship Committee

From: MAJ Scott Lucas, English Dept.

RE: Minutes of 11/9/06 Scholarship Committee meeting.

Members Present: Fuller, Heuston, Lucas, Rhodes, Rudolph, Speelman, Turner, Zardus.

Also present: MAJ Licia Calloway, who helped last Friday with scholarship interviews.

Hank Fuller, substituting for Committee Chair Wes Jones, called the meeting to order at 11:05. After acknowledging the somewhat small number of Committee members present at the meeting, those in attendance decided that enough members were present to begin an evaluation of scholarship candidates.

LTC Fuller then explained the various criteria by which Committee members were to evaluate scholarship candidates. These included the materials in the candidates’ application folder, the reports on the candidates’ interviews by Citadel faculty (interviews took place on November 3), and any extra impressions offered by COL Jack Rhodes, who met with several of the candidates separately in his capacity as Director of the Honors Program. Hank Fuller also gave the Committee an overview of the status of scholarship funding for next year’s entering class. LTC Fuller emphasized, as he did at the Committee’s first meeting, that less money is available for out-of-state students than in years past, a factor that must weigh in our eventual decision on how to allocate funds.

The Committee then turned to the task of evaluating individual candidates. For each candidate, the Committee heard a report from the candidate’s faculty interviewer and listened to an overview of the candidate’s admission-folder materials. Committee members then discussed the candidate, after which Hank Fuller called for a vote on him/her.

Based upon our discussions, the Committee members present made the following recommendations on the question of whether or not to offer full scholarships to the following students:

Powell—Yes

Rowland—Yes

Sloat—Yes (The Committee recommended him for the Aiken Scholarship)

Smoak—Committee members were split on Mr. Smoak’s candidacy; we therefore decided to revisit the question of his candidacy at a later meeting.

Sandy—No

Ryan—We did not have admissions-folder materials for Mr. Ryan, so we decided to postpone a decision on him.

Clark—As with Mr. Smoak above, a lack of consensus on Ms Clark led Committee members to decide to defer a decision about her until a later meeting.

Conkell—Yes

High—Yes

Gillis—No

Newton—Yes

Hart—Yes

Gross—Yes

After evaluating the candidates, the Committee acknowledged that it had recommended for full scholarships more out-of-state students than it had expected. The Committee will thus take up at a future meeting the question of what to do if it has recommended more out-of-state students than can be offered full scholarships.

LTC Fuller then thanked the Committee members and MAJ Calloway for their work and reminded them that the Committee will meet again at 1100 hours on Thursday, November 16, in a convenient open classroom on the second floor of Bond Hall. At that time, if the faculty interviewers are present at the meeting, the Committee will continue with its evaluation of those students interviewed on November 3, 2006.

The Scholarship Committee meeting adjourned at approximately 1230 hours.

Respectfully submitted,

MAJ Scott Lucas

Member, Scholarship Committee

To: Members of The Citadel Scholarship Committee

From: MAJ Scott Lucas, English Dept.

RE: Minutes of 11/16/06 Scholarship Committee meeting.

Members Present: Fuller, Murray, Lucas, Bower, Wehrman, Plemmons, Rudolph, Speelman, Turner, Zardus.

Also present: MAJ Licia Calloway, who helped with the November scholarship interviews.

Hank Fuller, substituting for Committee Chair Wes Jones, called the meeting to order at about 1100. LTC Fuller noted that the Committee would vote on the remaining full-scholarship candidates and reconsider those for whom the Committee postponed a final decision last week.

The Committee generally based its decisions upon the materials in the candidates’ application folders and, whenever possible, on the reports by the Citadel faculty members who interviewed the candidates. Since COL Jack Rhodes was out of town on this day, the Committee was unable to avail itself of his extra input as Director of the Honors Program.

Based upon our discussions, the Committee members present made the following recommendations on the question of whether or not to offer full scholarships to the following students:

Alexander: No

Beja: No

Clark (reconsidered after an inconclusive discussion at our last meeting): No

Conklin: Yes

Covey: No

Gilbert: No

Good: No

Hardina: No

Hines: No

Kinard: Yes

Klecha: No

LaRocca: Yes

Leichty: Yes

MacChesney: Yes

Musselwhite: No

Peterman: No

Powanda: Yes

Ryan: No

Smoak (reconsidered after an inconclusive discussion at our last meeting): No

Smythe: Yes

Stacy: No

Stroman: No

Talley: No

Tye: Yes

Van Swearingen: Yes

Wilson: No

After evaluating the candidates, Hank Fuller noted that we had offered an equal amount of full and partial scholarships to the candidates interviewed in November. He also noted that we have already reached our limit of scholarships to offer, so we may well have to set higher criteria for the next round of candidates applying for full scholarships.

LTC Fuller then thanked the Committee members and MAJ Calloway for their work.

The Scholarship Committee meeting adjourned at approximately 1245 hours.

Respectfully submitted,

MAJ Scott Lucas

Member, Scholarship Committee

To: Members of The Citadel Scholarship Committee

From: MAJ Scott Lucas, English Dept.

RE: Minutes of 2/1/07 Scholarship Committee meeting.

Members Present: Fuller, Heuston, Jones, Lucas, Bower, Rhodes, Wehrman, Plemmons, Rudolph, Speelman, Turner, Zardus.

Also present: MAJ Licia Calloway, who helped with the January scholarship interviews.

LTC Hank Fuller and Committee Chair MAJ Wes Jones called the meeting to order at about 1105 hours. LTC Fuller noted that the Committee had offered $540,000 in scholarships to candidates in December, leaving a sum less than that to offer those interviewed in the Spring semester. LTC Fuller urged the Committee in this round to seek out in particular worthy in-state candidates for full scholarships, because in-state candidates’ tuition fees are much less than those of out-of-state students.

CPT George Rudolph then demonstrated for the Committee the spreadsheet document he had developed to assist Committee members in assessing full-scholarship candidates. CPT Rudolph led the Committee members through the various aspects of the spreadsheet, and he demonstrated how scholarship candidates could be ordered and ranked based upon various criteria, such as state of origin and ACT scores. (CPT Rudolph converted candidates’ SAT scores into ACT scores in order to have an uniform measure with which to work). He also noted that he had added a “meets criteria?” column to the spreadsheet, allowing Committee members easily to identify those who meet the minimum standards, as determined by the Committee, for consideration for a full scholarship. Further, based upon his calculations, CPT Rudolph estimated in advance how the Committee might decide upon each of the interviewed candidates, though he noted that he did this only for demonstration purposes (since we had not yet heard about the candidates’ essays and interviews at that point). He also showed the Committee his estimate of how much money it would likely offer to candidates in this round of evaluation.

The Committee was highly impressed with CPT Rudolph’s work on this spreadsheet, and Committee Chair Wes Jones praised CPT Rudolph for his “great step forward” in helping the Committee evaluate candidates. MAJ Jones later suggested that CPT Rudolph send the spreadsheet to Committee members, so that each member might try his/her hand at adding to its usefulness. CPT Rudolph did so after the meeting concluded.