Southern Kentucky Book Fest
To Sponsor WKU Scholarship

October 15, 2004

Bowling Green, Ky. - The Southern Kentucky Book Fest partners have established a scholarship to help students at Western Kentucky University.

The Southern Kentucky Book Fest Scholarship will provide a single one-year full-tuition scholarship awarded annually to Kentucky resident students majoring in English, education or library media education. Applicants must maintain a 3.0 grade-point average to be eligible.

"I'm thrilled that we're able to provide a scholarship for a deserving WKU student who shows strong support for our mission, which is to encourage reading and the love of books by all, both children and adults," said Dr. Mike Binder, dean of Libraries at WKU.

The scholarship was established in the WKU Foundation from proceeds from the Book Fest, which is held in April.

Recipients will be asked to assist as possible with the certain aspects of the Book Fest.

A special scholarship committee made up of members of the Book Fest partners—WKU Libraries, Bowling Green Public Library and Barnes and Noble Booksellers—will select the recipient.

For more information, contact Carrie Barnett at (270) 745-7056. More WKU news is available at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via e-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.

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