Eleven Rhodes Scholarships are now open for Canadian students and will be awarded in early December.

St. Thomas University graduate (BA'03 English and Spanish) Matthew Carpenter-Arevalo was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at England's Oxford University.

Complete information and applications are available from Barb Greenman in the Vice President Academic's office. Please note that the internal deadline for applications is September 28th so that the Rhodes' deadline of October 13, 2006 can be met.

These Scholarships are tenable at the University of Oxford, England. They are granted for two years with the possibility of a third year. Scholars are required to go to Oxford in October of 2007.

Selection is made on the basis of school and college records without written examination. The qualities which will be considered in making the selection are: literary and scholastic attainment; fondness and success in outdoor sports, qualities of truthfulness, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; exhibition of moral force of character and of instincts to lead and take an interest in one’s contemporaries. Qualities of both character and intellect are the most important requirements for a Rhodes Scholarship and these are what the Selection Committees will seek. Financial need does not receive special consideration.

The eleven Scholarships are allotted, three to the Western Region (Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta), two to each Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime Regions (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island), and one each to British Columbia and Newfoundland.