Ruth Maslin Governor's Scholars research files
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Ruth Maslin Governor's Scholars research files
- Date
- 1981-1989 (inclusive)
- Creator
- Maslin, Ruth
- Extent
- 0.45 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Education, Higher -- Kentucky
- Education -- Kentucky -- Richmond.
- Public policy and politics
- Women scholars.
- Kentucky. Governor's Scholars Program
- Maslin, Ruth
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged chronologically.
- Preferred Citation
- 2017ms010: [identification of item], Ruth Maslin Governor's Scholars research files, 1980-1988, undated, University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- The Kentucky Governor's Scholars Program is a five week, intensive study program attended by the brightest students in the state. It invites a number of the most promising high school juniors to attend the academic gathering during which they will come together on a college campus to study, discuss, and research alongside faculty and other academics. Tuition, room, and board are all covered by the state as a result of partnerships with local corporations and foundations. The program is completed without any grades or credits given, with the main goals being to further educate the scholars and foster a love of learning within them. Faculty chosen from the ranks of high school, college, and university instructors work with the chosen students, teaching courses focused on broadening the students' perspective and facilitating personal growth and development. Key points of the programs curriculum are critical thinking, adaptability, and creativity. It is the hope of the program that the students, after their experience, will return to their respective schools and act as "ambassadors of excellence", inspiring their classmates to reach toward a higher level of academic success. Ruth Maslin, of Richmond, Kentucky, was one of those 300 exceptional students invited to take part in the 1984 iteration of the program at Eastern Kentucky University.
- "Governor's Scholars Program", An Official Website of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, https://gsp.ky.gov/Pages/index.aspx, accessed 2022 June
- Scope and Content
- The Ruth Maslin Governor's Scholars research files (dated 1980-1988; 0.45 cubic feet; 1 box) comprise research files on the Kentucky Governor's Scholars program compiled by Ruth Maslin, including correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, programs, handbooks, and other materials. The bulk of the collection contains articles and news clippings pertaining to the institution and operation of the Governor's Scholars Program as well as information from the US Department of Education. Also included are letters and articles by the scholars and photographs of the first day of the program.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to these materials belong to the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
Committee papers, 1981-1989
United States Department of Education, ERIC reports, 1982
Governor's Scholars Program news clippings, 1982-1985
Opening day photographs, 1983
Programs and activities, 1983
Letters and articles by scholars, 1983-1987
Programs and activities, 1984
Outside articles, 1984, 1988
Newsletters, 1985, 1987
Business involvement, magazine articles, 1985-1988
Ashland Oil, Inc., 1986-1988
National Conference on Governor's Schools, 1987
Task force and program, 1988
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