The Paul Robeson Scholars Project was named for the distinguished African-American graduate of Rutgers University, and is designed to encourage Livingston College seniors to undertake independent projects of academic merit and humanistic value, ordinarily within their major. The Scholars Project may be combined with a departmental honors thesis. Upon successful completion of the project, students are designated as "Paul Robeson Scholars" on their transcripts, and listed accordingly in the Commencement Program. Paul Robeson Scholars must maintain a 3.0 for the cumulative average and a 3.0 in the major throughout the program to remain eligible for continuance through the program.

Robeson students also participate in the year-long Robeson Seminar (01:090:483, 484), in which they exchange ideas and information with other Robeson Scholars and the program's director. The culmination of this project is a research paper approximately 40-60 pages, and an oral presentation at the end of the senior year. A working draft is due at the end of the first semester of the senior year.  For more Information please see the application below, or contact Dean Hashemi at 732-445-3206.

Faculty members are asked to make a commitment to the student for two terms, the Fall and the Spring of the senior year. The faculty sponsor role is critical to the students’ research and progress.  Without such support throughout both terms, the student is unable to proceed and could lose the honors credits for which he or she registered.

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