An award of $500 will be presented to the CN student who wrote the best article (or series) about campus issues during the 2008-09 academic year in Collegiate Network publications.

• Deadline is October 5, 2009
• 1 entry per student
• The winner will be invited to the Collegiate Network’s Editors Conference in San Antonio, Texas, November 6-8, 2009. 
• Submissions must be focused on campus rather than national concerns. Op-eds, commentary, etc., will not be considered unless they contain serious reporting. 

The Collegiate Network has now opened submissions for the 2009 William F. Buckley, Jr. Award for excellence in investigative campus journalism. The award, formerly known as the John J. Miller Award, is given each year to the writer of the best campus-focused investigative article published in all Collegiate Network publications during the 2008-2009 academic year. The recipient of the award will be given an all expense paid trip to the Collegiate Network’s Editors Conference, in San. Antonio, Texas, November 6-8, 2009, and a $500 cash prize. Submissions for the award are due no later than October 5, 2009, must pertain to on-campus issues and contain a professional level of in-depth reporting. Op-eds, commentary, etc., will not be considered without the aforementioned.

Send submissions to:

Ashton Staniszewski, CN Program Officer
Collegiate Network
3901 Centerville Road Wilmington, DE 19807
E-mail: astaniszewski@isi.org
Phone: (302) 524-6125
Fax: (302) 652-1760

The Phillips Foundation today announced that applications are now being accepted for its Ronald Reagan College Leaders Scholarship Program featuring renewable scholarships of up to $10,000 for college undergraduate leader-activists who demonstrate leadership on behalf of freedom, American values, and Constitutional principles.

The Foundation intends to award scholarships in amounts of $10,000, $7,500, $5,000, $2,500 and $1,000 for the 2010–2011 academic year. For academic year 2009–2010, the Foundation authorized $217,000 in scholarships to 93 students, including 25 scholarship renewals. To date, the Foundation has awarded more than $2 million in scholarships.

For more information, visit their website at thephillipsfoundation.org.