Professor Elam

Tuesday Dec18, 2018

Dear Dennis and Peter,

Thank you to you and your students for participating in the 2018 Socionomics Foundation Scholarship! We thoroughly enjoyed reading all of your students’ innovative papers. It is wonderful to see students learn about the socionomic perspective, incorporate it into their thinking and apply it in their studies.

Dennis — Your students’ papers were well-researched and professionally written. We were especially impressed with their command of the academic prose. They made great use of SI’s research materials.

Peter —  Your students’ papers were engaging reads, and maintained a strong focus on mood / confidence throughout. Thoughtful incorporation of class materials as well.

We were impressed by the caliber of submissions from each class. You and your students sure made it tough to select a winner! With that said, we are happy to announce Michael Fairbanks, from the College of William & Mary, as this year’s recipient of the Socionomics Foundation’s $1k scholarship.

We’d plan to highlight several papers from each university in an upcoming article in The Socionomist. If you both could provide a quote on what it’s like teaching socionomics to your students, and how the students took to the assignment, we would really appreciate it.

And Peter, if you could connect us with Michael, that’d be great. We’d like to interview him briefly with the aim of including a quote or two from him in our Socionomist article.

Thank you again. We’re excited that you’re sharing socionomics with your students and hope that you’ll consider participating should our budget allow for another contest next year!

All the best for the holidays and the start of the next semester.

Warmly,

Alyssa