Duckenfield Scholars Program Application Deadline
Applications for the Duckenfield Scholars Program are due in 105 Tillman Hall no later than Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.
Application Form (pdf) for summer 2010
About the Duckenfield Scholars Program
The Christopher J. Duckenfield Scholars Program was established by the family and friends of Dr. Duckenfield, who served Clemson University as Vice Provost for Computing and Information Technology. Fittingly, he was also an alumnus of St. Peter’s College of the University of Oxford. The Duckenfield Scholars Program enables one member of the Calhoun Honors College, who demonstrates extraordinary talent, motivation, commitment, and ability, to attend St. Peter’s College. The annual selection of the Duckenfield Scholar is highly competitive and requires submission of a written application and personal interviews. In addition to scholastic excellence of the highest caliber, Duckenfield Scholars are expected to demonstrate an ability to adapt to the tutorial style of learning that exemplifies university education at Oxford and elsewhere in the United Kingdom. The program has been established for a student who desires to have an experience in another culture and to broaden his or her global perspectives.
About St. Peter's College
St. Peter's College was founded in 1929 by Dr. Christoper Chavasse who became the college's first Master and guided the institution through its first ten years. Although the institution itself is relatively young (Oxford's University College was founded in nearly seven centuries earlier), its buildings stand on the site of the New Hall Inn, dating to 1476. During the English Civil War of the 1640s, New Hall was seized by King Charles and was converted into the Royal Mint where silver objects were melted to produce coinage. After the Civil War, it resumed its academic functions until 1887 when Balliol College acquired it and was used as a residence for fellows and scholars. When Dr. Chavasse bought New Hall and renamed it St. Peter's Hall, he envisioned it as a college for "Low Church" young men from families of modest means. In 1961 St. Peter's gained full collegiate status and changed its name accordingly. For more information about St. Peter's College, go to http://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/
2005 Duckenfield Scholar Lindsay Green-Barber at Radcliffe Camera, the main reading room of Oxford's renowned Bodleian Library.