ortheast Regional Honors Council
Partners in the Parks & Place as Text Scholarships
Partners in the Parks is an outdoor experiential learning program coordinated by the National Collegiate Honors Council. PITP projects at national parks across the country offer unique opportunities for collegiate honors students and faculty to visit areas of the American landscape noted for their beauty, significance and lasting value.
Place as Text encourages active learning by fostering critical inquiry and integrative learning across disciplines while actively exploring a given location or city. Each location becomes a living textbook as you gain first-hand experience into a location's heritage, culture, social dynamics, and more.
Partner in the Parks seminars led by university faculty and park personnel include historical, scientific, cultural, and other important topics unique to a given park. Projects will also take advantage of exciting recreational opportunities in the parks to broaden participants’ understanding of the overall value of national parks to our country and its citizens. Read about the current PITP opportunities here.
The NCHC also offers students opportunities to study away from their home campuses in its Honors Semester program and the Place as Text program. For more information about current opportunities, click here.
The NRHC is pleased to offer its member institutions and their students a scholarship to help defray the cost of these programs. See below for information about applying for the NRHC scholarship. Students interesting in these programs should also apply to the NCHC's scholarship, NCHC scholarship information is available here.
Application: The scholarship application for the Partners in the Parks and Place as Text programs includes identifying information, a 500-word essay detailing student expectations and goals, the total amount of the tuition and other financial support, and a 150-200-word statement of support for the student from the Director/Dean.
Click here to apply for the PITP, Place as Text, or Honors Semester Scholarship.
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Eligible Expenses: Scholarships are for registration fees or tuition only.
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Maximum Award: The maximum scholarship per student per experience is $500.
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Total Number of Scholarships: NRHC offers up to five (5) scholarships each year for Partners in the Parks and five (5) scholarships for Honors Semester experiences.
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Institutional Membership Requirement: Students applying for one of these scholarships must be from an institutional member of NRHC in the academic year (including the following summer) of the chosen experience.
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Institutional Student Limit: No more than two (2) students from a member institution may receive a scholarship in any one calendar year for a Partners in the Parks experience. No more than two (2) students from a member institution may receive a scholarship in any one calendar year for the Honors Semester.
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Student Limit: A student may receive a scholarship for a particular experience only once. A student may receive only one scholarship in any one year. For example, a student could receive a Partners in the Parks scholarship one year, and an Honors Semester scholarship another year, but not in the same year.
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Basis of Award: Scholarships are awarded competitively based on the quality of the application.
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Deadlines: The Partners in the Parks scholarship application will be open year-round. Decisions will be made on a rolling basis.
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Submission: All application materials should be submitted to the NRHC website. Once institutional membership is verified, the application will be forwarded to the NRHC Scholarship Selection Committee, consisting of the two faculty representatives and one of the two student representatives OR the vice-president.
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Reflective Essay Requirement: The student receiving a scholarship for Partners in the Parks or an Honors Semester must submit a 500-word reflective essay to the NRHC secretary within one month (30 days) of completing the experience. The essay will be posted at the NRHC website. Failure to submit a reflective essay within the 30 days results in forfeiture of the scholarship.
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Reimbursement: Upon the timely submission of the reflective essay, the NRHC treasurer will reimburse the party responsible for paying the experience registration fee or tuition—either the Honors Program or the student—as noted on the application form.