John Marshall Scholars

The John Marshall Scholars Program is an academic scholarship program that covers a majority of the cost of education for member students at Marshall University. Named to honor the Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall, the program affords a rigorous academic program and provides a full tuition/fees waiver and stipend to students with a composite ACT score of 30 or higher who have been accepted to the university. Students must maintain a 3.5 GPA in order to retain their scholarship.^[1][2]

John Marshall Scholars complete a program of interdisciplinary honors seminars and departmental honors courses. Examples of these interdisciplinary seminars include:

• Threads of Bale, exposing students to the literature and music of suffering in Northern Ireland and Appalachia.
• The History of Science, exploring the nature of scientific revolutions and their impact on society
• Global Terrorism
• Literary Ornithology
• Tolkien and Film
• Writing Biography: Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Post-Colonial Theory and Literature
• The American Constitution
• Endangered Species: Genetics and Policy
• The Roosevelts: The Years Before the White House
• Tests, Tests, and More Tests
• Castro's Cuba and the American Imagination

• Society of Yeager Scholars: another scholarship at Marshall University.

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