ACES Education Fund - Empowering editing's future | American Copy Editors Society

From an impressive field of applicants, the Education Fund of the American Copy Editors Society has awarded five college students with 2012-13 scholarships.

Alexandria Baca
University of Missouri
Aubespin Award

The winners are Alexandria Baca of the University of Missouri; Mike Cirelli, Otterbein University; Ashley Dye, Ball State University; Melisa Easaw, The College of New Jersey, and Katie Fennelly, University of Nebraska.

As the top candidate among the applicants, Baca was named the Aubespin scholar and given $2,500. Other winners each received $1,000.

Mike Cirelli
Otterbein University

In addition, each winner is eligible for free registration to ACES’ 2013 National Conference in St. Louis, plus up to $500 for conference travel expenses.  Four of the five gratefully expect to attend.

Applicants were judged on their editing abilities and commitment to copy editing as a career, as demonstrated through their multi-faceted applications and a copy-editing test.

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College students with an aptitude for editing are invited to apply for five scholarships totaling $6,500 awarded by the Education Fund of the American Copy Editors Society.

If you are a junior, senior or graduate student, you can apply through a newly simplified and fully online process. For specifics, view the application page.

The top award, for $2,500, is named for Merv Aubespin, a former president of the National Association of Black Journalists, a longtime champion of copy editors and, as the chairman of the Human Resources Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in the mid-1990s, the “godfather” of ACES.

The other four awards are for $1,000 each. All five winners also receive free registration, as well as up to $500 each for travel, to attend the annual ACES conference.

The scholarships are open to college juniors, seniors and graduate students who are in school for at least one full term during fall 2013 through summer 2014. Previous winners are not eligible.

For questions, please e-mail Alex Cruden at alex@copydesk.org.

Finding and hiring talented copy editors has always been challenging, but a world hungry for information needs copy editors more than ever. To help meet that need, the American Copy Editors Society has awarded scholarships to deserving students since 1999.

There are now five awards to college juniors, seniors and graduate students each year: four scholarships of $1,000 each and one of $2,500. The largest grant is named for Merv Aubespin, the “godfather” of ACES. This year’s scholars are Joshua Barone, University of Missouri (Aubespin scholar); Zachary Aldrich, Matthew Draper, Margaux Henquinet and Arielle Retting.

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As a University of Nebraska student, Emily Ingram was one of just five students nationally to win an ACES scholarship in early 2010.

Just a few months later, she was hired as an overnight producer at The Washington Post. She’s come a long way from Franklin, Neb., a town of about 1,100 people where Ingram grew up on a farm not far from the Kansas border. It’s a one-stoplight town, she said, if you count the light that only flashes red or yellow depending on the direction you’re driving.

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