By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
In her first year as an honors student at ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅, Alison Majors was promoted to Presidential Scholar, and composed a major essay on minorities in Texas which she presented at the Mount Pleasant Public Library, the meeting of the Walter Webb Society in College Station, and the Great Plains Honors Council in Stillwater. She is a recent winner, nationally, of the Leaders of Promise award conferred by Phi Theta Kappa, and Coca Cola. She is slated to present work twice this fall, at the East Texas Historical Association in Nacogdoches, and at the National Collegiate Honors Council in Kansas City where she will discuss the work at ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ with niche cinema.
This scholarship, conferred to a leading Presidential Scholar of the ten at the college, came into being as part of a record-breaking 1.7 million-dollar gift to ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ in 2007 by the Whatley family.
βWhat I think I will always remember about Majors,β notes Honors Professor, Dr. Andrew Yox, βis an extraordinary presentation of her work that she made at the Oklahoma State last March. The poster session had officially ended, but some seven students from various colleges and universities of the Great Plains district hung around to hear Majors give her slant on the culture of minority relations in Texas history.β
Majors is majoring in Biology, and looking forward to a challenging year ahead.
