What is a Rhodes Scholar?
Rhodes Scholarships provide two or three years of study at Oxford. The Rhodes Scholarships, oldest of the international study awards available to American students, were created in 1902 by the Will of Cecil Rhodes, British philanthropist and colonial pioneer. The first class of American Rhodes Scholars entered Oxford in 1904. Rhodes Scholars are chosen in a three-stage process. First, candidates must be endorsed by their college or university. Committees of Selection in each of the fifty states then nominate candidates who are interviewed by District Selection Committees in eight regions of the United States. Applicants are chosen on the basis of the criteria set down in the Will of Cecil Rhodes. These criteria are high academic achievement, integrity of character, a spirit of unselfishness, respect for others, potential for leadership, and physical vigor. These basic characteristics are directed at fulfilling Mr. Rhodes’s hopes that the Rhodes Scholars would make an effective and posi
A Rhodes Scholar is a winner of one of the approximately 90 Rhodes Scholarships awarded each year by the Rhodes foundation. Rhodes Scholar recipients study at Oxford University, in England, for one to two years. This study may be applied to the degree the Scholar may be working towards at another University, or it may serve to complete a degree. The Rhodes Scholar may also be seeking an advanced degree. In fact, many use their scholarship to pursue Master’s or Ph.D. programs at Oxford. The Rhodes Trust was established in 1902, through the will of Cecil John Rhodes. Students eligible to apply to become a Rhodes Scholar were and still are supposed to have a fondness for sports, or success in sports, strong moral character, devotion to duty, interest in one’s fellow citizens and desire to lead. Initially the scholarship was awarded to students solely from the US, the UK, and Germany. With the beginning of World War I, a German could not become a Rhodes Scholar. Ability for Germans to appl
A Rhodes scholar is someone who has been awarded a Rhodes scholarship. The world’s oldest fellowship program, Rhodes scholarships provide students with two years of study (with an option for a third) at Oxford University in England. The program was established in the will of British-born financier and statesman Cecil J. Rhodes who graduated from Oxford in 1881 and died in 1902. Rhodes outlined a plan that would bring students from different countries and cultures to Oxford in the hopes that their interactions would promote international understanding and peace. Rhodes’ first plan included nine countries. Since then, the program has expanded to include Australia, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Canada, the Commonwealth Caribbean, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The United States, which handed out its first Rhodes scholarship in 1904, recognizes 32 Rhodes scholars each year, making it the largest dele
The University of Minnesota’s Katie Lee is one of 32 people in the United States who were recently selected, and she’s available nationwide to discuss it! Katie N. Lee, an honors senior at the University of Minnesota majoring in biochemistry and chemistry, has been named one of 32 U.S. Rhodes Scholars for 2007. The scholarships, which are the oldest and best known award for international study, cover two to three years of degree courses at Oxford University. A total of 85 scholars were named worldwide. “I was very honored to receive the Rhodes Scholarship,” said Lee. “I am very excited to begin my graduate studies at the University of Oxford.” Lee is completing a degree in biochemistry from the College of Biological Sciences and a degree in chemistry from the Institute of Technology. She plans to earn a doctoral degree in biochemistry at Oxford and to pursue a career in academic medicine as a physician scientist. Just a week ago Lee was offered a Marshall Scholarship to study at Oxford
