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The Mentor is pleased to announce its ninth annual Academic Advising Writing Competition. The purpose of the competition is to stimulate discussion about academic advising in higher education. The competition is also designed to promote, recognize, and reward exemplary writing on topics related to advising.
The deadline for submitting entries for this year's competition is November 30, 2009. The winning entry will be announced in early 2010 and will be published in The Mentor. The author of the winning entry will receive a $500 cash award.
Competition Topic
This year, The Mentor is celebrating its first ten years of publication. In those ten years, much has changed in the field of academic advising.
What do you think academic advising will be like in another ten years?
In crafting your essay in response to this topic, you may want to consider factors such as future technologies, student characteristics and changing populations, increases in distance education, the nature of the advising profession, and others of your choosing.
Competition Rules
- Members of the editorial board of The Mentor, former Mentor writing competition award winners, and employees of Penn State are not eligible to enter.
- An entrant may submit only one entry, which must be his or her original work and may not have been published previously.
- Entries must be no longer than 1,500 words and include the following additional information: author's name, title, institution, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone number.
- Entries must be e-mailed to bjf5@psu.edu no later than November 30, 2009. Entries may be sent in the body of the e-mail or as an attachment.
- Entries will be judged by a panel of editorial board members. The author's name and other identifying information will be removed from each entry before it is forwarded to the panel for blind judging.
- Entries will be judged on the basis of originality, substance, clarity, relevance, style, and form.
- A $500 cash award will be given to the author of the best entry.
- The winning entry will be published in The Mentor.
- Honorable mentions may also be awarded at the judges' discretion. These entries, if any, will also be published in The Mentor.
- All entries become the property of The Mentor and may not be reprinted without permission from the journal.
- The Mentor will not give an award if there are not enough entries or if the quality of the entries does not warrant an award.
Questions about the competition may be addressed to mentor@psu.edu.
The Mentor is published by Penn State's Division of Undergraduate Studies
Available online at www.psu.edu/dus/mentor/
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