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PrintLuard Morse Scholarship awarded to Allyson Carpenter and Laura Campbell
National Announcement – January 16th, 2015
Allyson Carpenter and Laura Campbell
Allyson Carpenter, a Political Science Major/Community Development Minor, and Laura Campbell, a Biology Major/Chemistry Minor, both at Howard University in Washington, D.C., have been selected as this year's recipients of the English–Speaking Union (ESU) Luard Morse Scholarship. The scholarship provides $25,000 towards a semester of study at an English university during the 2015-16 academic year.
The ESU is pleased to share today's The New York Times article, "A Diverse Mix of Pupils, Learning Civilized Dissent," featuring the ESU Middle School Debate program's New York Debate League. Now in its fourth year, the program, designed to help young adolescents develop critical thinking and language arts skills through public speaking, has reached more than 2,300 students in grades 5 to 8 in New York and New Jersey. There are nearly 900 individual debates through this program annually.
The ESU Conference in Newport, Rhode Island, which took place on October 17 - 19, drew the largest number of members to a conference in years, topping out at 140! Nearly every Branch was represented, and we enjoyed the participation of more Branch leaders than usual, as they were specifically invited to a day-long Conclave of Branch Presidents and National Board Members that took place just prior to the Conference.
This past July, ESU Executive Director Christopher Broadwell and Director of Educational Programs Carol Losos traveled to Great Britain to introduce themselves to our educational partners there, including the British Universities Summer School (BUSS) professors and administrators at Oxford University and Shakespeare's Globe in London – as well as our counterparts at the ESU of the Commonwealth at Dartmouth House. Here is their report: