Creighton University offers $4,000 scholarships renewable for four years to students who excel in speech activities. The scholarships will be based on academic along with speech and/or debate achievements. Continuation of the scholarship over the four-year academic term will require maintaining a 2.5 cumulative GPA and participation on the Creighton University Speech and Debate team.
The scholarship was designed to recognize students who display outstanding speech talent. The Creighton University nationally-ranked Forensics Team fields competitors in 11 different individual events (including oral interpretation of literature, public speaking, and limited preparation events), Lincoln-Douglas Debate (policy debate), and Parliamentary Debate (non-evidence team debate modeled after British Parliament). Our travel schedule is extensive but not exhausting.
In recent years, we traveled to Colorado, California, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Ohio, Oregon and Texas. We consistently place among the top 15 teams in the nation in both individual events and parliamentary debate.
Guidelines To be considered for the scholarship, students must meet the following criteria:
• Submission of a Creighton University Application for Undergraduate Admission and Scholarship postmarked by January 6 of your senior year.
• Submission of the Creighton University William Jennings Bryan Debate and Speech Scholarship application and supporting documentation by February 2 of your senior year, including a forensics and debate activity resume and two completed recommendation forms from coaches/teachers. These forms can be accessed at https://admissions.creighton.edu/FinancialMatters/PDFApplications/tabid/1091/Default.aspx.
The forms should be submitted to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178, Attn: William Jennings Bryan Scholarship.
Ten students will be selected to audition for the scholarship in February 2010. Notification of audition selections will be sent the beginning of February 2010. If you are unable to audition on campus, a DVD may be submitted. However, we strongly encourage students to complete this portion of the application on campus. Regardless, debaters invited for the audition will need to send the committee a DVD of themselves in a debate round. It can be a practice round or a tournament round on either side of the resolution. The scholarship will be awarded based on your audition or DVD.
If you have additional questions about the application process or the Creighton Speech and Debate team please contact Laura Keimig at laurakeimig@creighton.edu