Guest Blog from Paul Bowman - IPS Scholarships

The deadline for applications for the Mary and Jack Jinks Scholarship and for the newly established Marie and Jim Murphy Graduate Scholarship is May 15, 2010.

The Jinks Scholarship, named for Vice President of Public Service Mary Jinks and her husband Jack, is an academic scholarship for a child or grandchild of an IPS employee or retiree. Eligible participants may attend any University of Tennessee campus including Chattanooga, Knoxville, Martin, Memphis and Tullahoma or must have been admitted to attend. The Jinks established the scholarship as a way to promote public service and recognize young leaders who may show an interest in the field of public service.

The Murphy scholarship for graduate students was funded in early 2010 through the generous support of Marie and Jim Murphy. Marie Murphy served as executive director of the County Officials Association of Tennessee (COAT) and wanted to create the opportunity to help relatives of COAT and employees and relatives of the UT County Technical Assistance Service (CTAS). Jim Murphy is currently a member of the UT Board of Trustees. The Murphy Scholarship is available to both COAT and CTAS for graduate education at UT.

The deadline is EOB, Friday, May 14th in the Central Office for applications to either scholarships if you are delivering it in person or emailing them to me and must be complete.

If you are mailing the application it must be postmarked by Saturday, May 15th to be considered. Please mail scholarship completed applications to:

Institute for Public Service
ATTN: Paul Bowman
University of Tennessee
105 Student Services Building
Knoxville, TN 37996


Further inquiries and questions may be directed to me. Both scholarship applications can be found here .

Thank you for your interest and especially “thank you” to the many individuals on this distribution list who have contributed to these scholarships.