Virginia Doris Craig Scholarship

This scholarship was established in honor of his late wife Virginia Doris Craig to assist students working towards a Masters Degree in Agriculture. Virginia Doris Craig taught what is now known as family and consumer sciences for more than 20 years of her 28-year career in the Lake City/Riverside public school system. She also taught in the Noble and Dixie school districts, and retired after having taught for four years at Ridgefield Christian School in Jonesboro. A graduate of the University of Central Arkansas, she earned a specialist’s degree in community college teaching with a focus on vocational education at Arkansas State in 1988. Her husband, Gerald Craig, is also an A-State alumnus, where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the CoAT. For many years, he served as A-State’s director of financial aid. After Doris Craig’s death in 2014, Gerald Craig said he and his daughters decided a scholarship would be a fitting way to remember his wife.

“Because she spent so much time teaching vocational education in home economics, and because we both had earned degrees out of the College of Agriculture and Technology, my family and I thought this scholarship would be a lasting tribute that would help those who are working toward an advanced degree at Arkansas State,” Gerald Craig said