Scholarships

The Department of Political Science offers the following scholarships for its students. Please contact Eddie Meaders at meaders@unt.edu for further details.

The Clovis and Marilyn Morrisson Scholarship

The Clovis and Marilyn Morrisson Scholarship honors Dr. Clovis Morrisson, a long-time professor in the Department of Political Science, and his wife, Marilyn by providing scholarships for students studying political science at the University. Professor Morrisson delighted and instructed generations of students in Constitutional Law, as well as American and Texas government.

To be eligible for consideration, an applicant for the Scholarship must possess the following characteristics:

1. Meet the minimum entrance and academic performance standards of the department in effect at the time of any award;
2. Maintain full time enrollment in their degree program at the University;
3. Enroll as a full-time student in political science at the University; in the event no applicant possesses this characteristic, or if the Department of Political Science (or its successor) no longer exists, then students enrolling full-time in the study of government and politics at the University will be eligible for consideration.

The Dad Pender Memorial Scholarship

The Dad Pender Fund honors a previous Political Science Chair, Dad Pender, and advances scholarship in the Political Science Department. Scholarships awarded from the Fund are chosen by the Department through its normal processes and are based on academic merit

The Frank Feigert Scholarship

The Frank Feigert scholarship honors an extraordinarily gifted teacher who won the admiration and love of countless students.  He joined UNT’s Department of Political Science in 1977 and devoted himself to it and its students until his retirement in 2003.  He was named a Regents Professor in 1990 and was Chair of the department in 2001-2002.  Professor Feigert’s teaching career was recognized by the state of Texas in 2002 when he was named a Minnie S. Stevens Piper Foundation Professor.  He is the author or co-author of six books and published 25 articles and book chapters. 

To be eligible for consideration, an applicant for the Scholarship must possess the following characteristics:

1. Will have completed 21 undergraduate hours in political science with a GPA of at least 3.5 in the major and overall and have completed 90 hours total by the time of the award. At least 12 of the political science hours will have been taken at the University of North Texas;
2. Maintain full time enrollment at the University, unless the student has fewer than twice the number of semester hours required to be full time remaining in his/her degree program.

The Steven Poe Scholarship

The Steven Poe Scholarship honors the memory of the late Prof. Steve Poe, a world-renowned expert in human rights and dedicated teacher. Preference will normally be given to those students who are studying human rights in domestic or international politics or who are political science pre-law majors with an interest in human rights. To be eligible for consideration, an applicant for the Scholarship must possess the following characteristics:

Undergraduate Students

1. Will have completed 18 undergraduate hours in political science with a GPA of at least 3.5 in the major and overall and have completed 60 hours total by the time of the award. At least 12 of the political science hours will have been taken at the University of North Texas;
2. Maintain full time enrollment at the University, unless the student has fewer than twice the number of semester hours required to be full time remaining in his/her degree program.

Graduate Students

1. Will have completed 18 graduate hours in political science at the University of North Texas with a GPA of at least 3.75.