The department offers a number of prizes for students who excel in their academic work. The following are the Scholarships offered by the Department for English for Graduate students.

The Peterson Morley Award: An award of $1,000 will be bestowed annually upon a student currently enrolled as an English major at CSUN in either the undergraduate or graduate program, who plans to enter the teaching profession at any level. Applications from students who demonstrate financial need to complete their studies will be given particular attention.

The Richard Lid and Helen Lodge Scholarship: An award of $500 will be given to a graduate student enrolled in English and/or Secondary English Education, to help pay fees for graduate work. The applicant must concurrently be teaching in middle school or secondary school or be on sabbatical.

The Thomas Matthew Magness Graduate Memorial Fund: In memory of Thomas Matthew Magness, a former English graduate student, this award will provide $1,000 tuition remission for a first-semester graduate student in the English MA program. Selection will be based on academic merit.

The Professor Mitchell Marcus Prize in English: A prize of $4,000 will be awarded each spring semester to the graduate student whose achievements in the study of English are considered by the faculty as the most distinguished.

The Mahlon Gaumer Award: An award of $500 will be given to a graduate student who is the author of the best critical essay on English literature—with emphasis on the use of language.

The Harry Finestone Award in English: An award of $750 will be presented each year to the graduate student with the most distinguished essay in the study of literature completed in the department’s capstone graduate seminar, ENGL 698D. The essay must be nominated by the instructor of the course in which the student was enrolled. The Awards Committee will evaluate the nominated essays on the following criteria: originality of concept; potential scholarly impact; logical, effective organization; and clarity, coherence, and elegance of prose style.

The Irene Clark Scholarship for Rhetoric and Composition: The Irene Clark Scholarship for Rhetoric and Composition awards $500 for a paper written by a Department of English graduate student on a topic in rhetoric and composition.

The Angeline Olliff Memorial Scholarship: A $250 scholarship will be awarded in spring to a Rhetoric and Composition graduate student or a Teaching Associate in any specialization (creative writing, literature, rhetoric, and composition).

The Deborah Averill Award in Creative Writing: An award of $250 will be awarded to a female student who has had more than a one-year absence from school and returned after overcoming obstacles. The applicant, in either the undergraduate or graduate creative writing program, will submit a creative writing sample not to exceed ten pages (in any genre), as well as a 1-2 page personal statement.

The GMiS STEM Scholarships are provided to full-time and part-time graduate and undergraduate students pursuing a science, technology, engineering, or math degree. Applicants must also be of Hispanic descent and/or must demonstrate significant leadership or service within the underserved community.

A merit-based scholarship ranging in amounts from $500 to $5,000 or a non-merit based scholarship ranging from $500 – $1,000.

The Foundation for Community Association Research (FCAR) awards its Byron Hanke Fellowship to selected graduate students to implement research projects related to the development, management, and governance of common interest communities and their community associations.

This scholarship is awarded to graduating first-year students who have excelled in both academics and personal achievement. This award is focused on a thorough, all-encompassing analysis of the SMU admissions submission.

The Virginia Commonwealth University Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship is a fully ACGME-accredited, two-year training program primarily located at the Virginia Treatment Center for Children (VTCC). Serving a highly diverse patient demographic spanning all of Virginia, the fellows receive extensive training in broad areas of mental health delivery for the patients and their families, including a significant focus on acute inpatient hospitalization, outpatient clinical treatment, consultation-liaison experiences within the VCU Health System, as well as interfaces in several of the outpatient community collaborative programs. Throughout the program, the fellows engage in service delivery with a patient population ranging from infancy to young adulthood that spans multiple cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, with an emphasis on the underserved. We have a growing and extremely diverse and experienced faculty dedicated to the education and supervision of the fellows, emphasizing a strong, multidisciplinary approach to education which includes additional on-site training programs in psychology, social work, nursing, and pharmacy, among others.

Supporting the rotational experiences, the didactic program includes 5-6 protected hours per week and emphasizes the interface of genetics and neuroscience, psychosocial factors, trauma, culture, current diagnostics, psychotherapeutic and somatic interventions, in addition to family and systems-based approaches. The VCU Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship program offers fellows multiple opportunities for scholarship, including teaching opportunities for students and residents across disciplines, formal presentations at AACAP/APA/AADPRT, and various venues for research opportunities within the VCU Department of Psychiatry as well as across the entire VCU Health System. Overall, the VCU Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship promote a high degree of individualized attention to the education and supervision for each fellow as they develop in order to promote best outcomes for the patients and families as well as to build strong mental health clinicians to care for and support the future generations.

The Marshall Scholarships finance up to 40 independent, wide-ranging students who have outstanding leadership potential and who wish to study for a graduate degree at any institution in the United Kingdom. The program seeks to encourage applicants’ personal and intellectual growth by fostering their understanding and appreciation of contemporary Britain, its relationship with the United States, and its role on the world stage.

Full-time learners enrolled at approved Presbyterian theological institutions in Master's degree programs for church vocations. Scholarship grants will also be awarded at colleges, universities, and vocational schools for full and part-time study towards a baccalaureate degree or certification. Presbyterian applicants from the states of Michigan and Ohio will be given priority. On initial applications, individuals enrolled in church vocations at approved Presbyterian theological institutions may be awarded a maximum of $1500. On subsequent applications, they can receive up to $2000 with proof of continuing progress and according to need and availability of funds.

The Morris K. Udall and John S. McCain III Native American Graduate Fellowship in Tribal Policy (Native American Graduate Fellowship) recognizes outstanding Native American and Alaska Native graduate students who are currently pursuing advanced degrees in health care fields—including, but not limited to, health administration, health education, public health, medical practice, policy, research, or related-degrees—and who have demonstrated a commitment to Native health care. The Native American Graduate Fellowship Program honors the legacies of Morris K. Udall and John S. McCain III./p>