Scholarships & Financial Awards
Opportunities for Incoming Freshmen
Select the following link to download the Departmental Awards Application Form. Make sure that you also include a resume.
For a junior or first semester senior majoring in Marketing with a 3.5 GPA or higher and less than 90 hours completed, must have outstanding qualities in leadership, service, and citizenship; $300. Candidates meeting the minimum GPA requirements are formally invited to apply each spring; the entire Marketing faculty votes to select the recipient.
For a junior or first semester senior majoring in Marketing with a 3.2 GPA or higher, strong qualities in leadership, service and citizenship, and less than 90 hours completed; $350. Candidates must have finished high school as a resident of a town in Central Illinois. Candidates meeting the GPA and residence criteria are formally invited to apply. The Central Illinois Chapter of Delta Nu Alpha (a professional organization focusing on marketing, distribution, and transportation), with help from the Marketing faculty, selects the recipient.
For a junior or senior majoring in Marketing with a 3.0 GPA or higher and who has provided the ISU Collegiate Chapter of the American Marketing Association with outstanding leadership and service; candidates must have earned at least 75 hours and be a dues paying member of the ISU Collegiate Chapter of the AMA; $200. The faculty advisor to the ISU-AMA Chapter selects the recipient.
For a graduating senior majoring in Marketing with a 3.2 GPA or higher and at least 100 hours completed, who is an active member of the ISU Collegiate Chapter of the American Marketing Association and exhibits "good citizen" traits characteristic of the man after whom the award is named, Robert V. Mitchell, former Dean of the College of Business and Emeritus Professor of Marketing; $300. Candidates are identified by the Marketing faculty advisor to ISU-AMA, with the assistance of the Marketing Department chairperson. The entire ISU Marketing faculty votes to select the recipient.
For the graduating senior majoring in Marketing with at least 100 hours completed who has earned the highest grade point average among his/her peer group; $250. The recipient is identified and contacted by the Marketing Department chairperson; in case of a tie, the student with the superior service activity profile is selected.
For a graduating senior majoring in Marketing with at least 100 hours completed, who is a dues paying member of the ISU Collegiate Chapter of the American Marketing Association and has a 3.33 GPA or higher; $200. Candidates meeting the minimum criteria are identified by the Marketing chairperson who formally invites each to apply. The entire Illinois State University Marketing faculty votes to select the recipient.
For a senior majoring in Marketing with at least a 3.5 GPA and at least 90 hours completed; $500. Senior candidates meeting the minimum GPA requirement are formally invited to apply for this award each spring; the entire Marketing faculty votes to select the recipient.