Lloyd J. Phipps Scholarship Awards

The purpose of the endowment is to promote enrollment in the program to prepare teachers of Vocational Agriculture by providing scholarship awards for various phases of the program. The annual income of the Fund shall be used to provide scholarship awards to undergraduate students or fellowships to first year graduate students who are preparing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to teach Agriculture in the public schools. The lead or head professor in or for the courses in Agricultural Education, specifically for teacher certification, in the University’s program to prepare teachers of Vocational Agriculture, in consultation with the other professors and instructors teaching courses in Agricultural Education specifically for teacher certification, shall determine how the Fund shall be administered, subject to the general rules and regulations of the University relative to such scholarships. It is the Donor’s preference that the scholarship recipients be selected by a committee composed of faculty members who teach those professional Agricultural Education courses, not Agriculture courses, which are required for certification to teach Vocational Agriculture in the State of Illinois. The Donor directs that scholarship recipients be selected according to their potential as prospective teachers of Agriculture, as demonstrated by, but not limited to such attributes as leadership potential, academic merit and economic need, and only secondarily according to other criteria deemed appropriate by the above-named committee. The Donor directs that the funds be used to supplement the economic needs of the award recipients instead of attempting to provide for all or most of the costs in their educational programs. The effect of this policy being the providing of several awards. The Donor suggests that awards might be used to assist and encourage: Student teachers in Agricultural Education during their student teaching periods to help them defray the additional costs involved; Community college transfer students entering Agricultural Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to prepare to teach Agriculture in the public schools; Graduate students who wish to prepare to teach Agriculture in the public schools, but did not qualify for certification at the undergraduate level. And so forth for pre-service, in-service and graduate students in Agricultural Education, as special needs and opportunities develop. Awardees are expected to teach two years. If they do not they are expected to repay the monies received to the University of Illinois Foundation, Lloyd J. Phipps Scholarship Award Fund. A portion of the annual income to the Fund shall be used to purchase appropriate plaques and certificates for each of the recipients in recognition of their receiving an award, and for a comprehensive plaque, listing all of the recipients, which is to be displayed in an appropriate location to further the program of Agricultural Education at the University. An appropriate portion of the annual income to the Fund may also be used, if other funds are not available, to provide brochures and other appropriate vehicles to give visability to the Lloyd J. Phipps Scholarship Awards Program. Up to ten (10) percent of the annual income to the Fund shall be used to sponsor Lloyd J. Phipps Symposiums for Agricultural Education. The symposiums would be for University staff members in Agricultural Education, in Vocational and Technical Education, in Agriculture, and in other fields of Education; for University administrators; and for University students. The purpose of the symposiums would be to promote the general welfare of Agricultural Education, which would indirectly promote the Lloyd J. Phipps Scholarship Awards Program. The awards shall be known as the “Lloyd J. Phipps Scholarship Award.” The Symposiums shall be known as the “Lloyd J. Phipps Symposium for Agricultural Education.”