The Harry Truman Scholarship Fund

A Career in Public Service The Foundation defines public service as employment in government at any level, uniformed services, public-interest organizations, nongovernmental research and/or educational organizations, public and private schools, and public-service oriented nonprofit organizations such as those whose primary purposes are to help needy or disadvantaged persons or to protect the environment. The Foundation has supported Truman Scholars in many fields of study, including agriculture, biology, engineering, environmental management, physical and social sciences, and technology policy, as well as traditional fields such as economics, education, government, history, international relations, law, political science, public administration, nonprofit management, public health, and public policy. Former Truman Scholars serve as managers of government programs, legislators and aides for legislative bodies, foreign service officers, school teachers, staff members in policy analysis and research organizations, attorneys for government agencies, public defenders, professors, and professional staff in advocacy organizations and not-for-profit institutions. Conditions of Eligibility Each nominee must be  a full-time junior-level student at a four-year institution pursuing a bachelor's degree during the 1999-2000 academic year. "Junior" here means a student who plans to continue full-time undergraduate study and who expects to receive a baccalaureate degree between December 2000 and August 2001, or a student in his or her third year of collegiate study who expects to graduate during the 1999-2000 academic year, or a senior-level student who is a resident of Puerto Rico or the Islands,  committed to a career in public service as defined above,  in the upper quarter of his or her class, and  a United States citizen or a United States national from American Samoa or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Resident aliens (green card holders) are not eligible.

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