The committee advises students regarding application for the Truman, Goldwater, Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, Udall, National Security Education Program, Circumnavigators, and other scholarships and fellowships. It evaluates applications, interviews candidates, and transmits applications with appropriate evaluations to the national screening and selection committees. The committee works with the Lorraine W. Frank Office of National Scholarship Advisement. Member selection is based on expertise in fields appropriate to the various scholarships and willingness to serve on the various selection, evaluation or nomination committees on a regular basis. The committee is responsible to the executive vice president and university provost; appointments are made by the executive vice president and university provost on the recommendation of the dean of Barrett, The Honors College (three-year terms based on an academic year). 

• Souad Ali, International Letters and Cultures (2020)
• Abdullahi Gallab, Social Transformation (2019)
• David Foster, International Letters and Cultures (2019)
• Anne Jones, Molecular Sciences (2018)
• Alan Gomez, Social Transformation (2019)
• Eric Kostelich, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (2020)
• Ben Hurlbut, Life Sciences (2018)
• Ben Minteer, Life Sciences (2019)
• Vincent Pizziconi, Biological and Health Systems Engineering (2018)
• Charles Perrings, Life Sciences (2018)
• Jody Rockmaker, Music (2018)
• Willem Vermaas, Life Sciences (2019)
• Danko Sipka, International Letters and Cultures (2019)
• Andrew Jaynes, Law (2020)
• Christi Coursen, Science of Health Care Delivery (2019)

Ex officio:

• The university provost