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Barbara Murphy Brooks, in honor of her
parents, Rush W. and Celma Davis Murphy, has generously set
up a fund for the ETSU Department of Social Work to award one
or two annual scholarships to BSW students. The amount
and number of scholarships vary, depending on funds, but
generally the scholarship is $500-1000 per year, awarded over
two semesters.
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Barbara was a social worker who worked
in the areas of child welfare, public assistance, and
adoption. She also taught social work at the
University of Georgia from 1970 to 1982. In 1982 she
returned to the field of social work in the area of mental
health, and later she retired. Through the course of
her mother’s terminal illness in the 1990’s,
she was reminded of the importance of social services in
people’s lives, particularly the baccalaureate social
workers who were so helpful to her during the period of her
mother’s illness. In 1998, she set up the
scholarship for the BSW Program, and we are most pleased to
be able to offer this scholarship to our students every
spring for the following academic year.
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Criteria to apply for the scholarship
include:
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Student must have been formally
admitted to the social work major.
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Preference is given to students from
TN.
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Student must show financial need (to
be determined by the Financial Aid Office)
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Student must have a minimum GPA of
2.5.
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Applications and Financial Aid Release
forms are available in the Department of Social Work
located at Hillrise House. For the application
deadline each spring (generally it is April 1), contact the
Dr. Wahlberg, the BSW Program Director, at 439-6009.
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Applications include a short essay that
addresses the following topics:
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Human service experience to date and
what you learned from those experiences.
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Your long-term and short-term goals
following graduation with your BSW degree.
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Any financial need information that
you feel would be helpful for us to consider when we
review your application.
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