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All sorts of sources can keep your bank balance healthy
Potential business school students, apprehensive about sacrificing their bank account balance for further education and career advancement, may have more options than they think. While many funding options for prospective MBAs are available, from parental help to formal loans, scholarships consistently rank as a top expected source of finance for candidates around the globe. According to the QS Topmba.com Applicant Research report for 2006, which surveys over 5,000 MBA candidates across the world, Central European, Middle Eastern, and African applicants rely the most heavily on scholarships. .
Dion takes U-turn on scholarships
OTTAWA -- After opposing Jean Chretien's $2.5-billion scholarship fund because it intruded into provincial jurisdiction, Stephane Dion has softened his position as Liberal leader and is now open to renewing the mandate of the controversial program. The Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation endowment dries up in 2009, and the foundation has launched a major lobbying campaign to get an answer from Ottawa within months about its future. The foundation was created in 1998 to disburse 100,000 scholarships worth up to $3,000 each year over 10 years. Chretien acknowledged at the time that the fund was as much about promoting national unity and raising the visibility of the federal government as it was about education. "It's likely that it's working quite well.
Seven Hills grad wins scholarship
P.G. Sittenfeld, a 2003 graduate of the Seven Hills School and a senior at Princeton University, is one of four Princeton seniors to be awarded 2007 Marshall Scholarships for graduate study in England. The prestigious awards cover the cost of living and studying at a British university of the recipient's choice for two or three years. Sittenfeld is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sittenfeld of East Walnut Hills. The Marshall Scholarships were established in 1953 as a British gesture to the United States for the assistance received after World War II under the Marshall Plan. The scholarships are awarded to American students who have demonstrated academic excellence and leadership potential. .
BU Group Offers Scholarship For Whites Only
(CBS4) BOSTON A student group at Boston University is making headlines with a scholarship it's offering only to Caucasian students. The College Republicans said the "Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship" is meant to raise awareness about racial preferences."We know it's ridiculous, but we think it's ridiculous in the same way to give out a Hispanic scholarship or a scholarship based on race in any way shape or form," said BUCR member Joe Mroszczyk.The application for the $250 scholarship requires applicants be at least one-fourth Caucasian. Applicants must also submit two essays, one describing their ancestry and one describing "what it means to you to be a Caucasian-American today.""To give out scholarships based on economic need is one thing but to base it on race and race alone when they're coming from the same places where the white folks are, I don't think that provides any diversity at all," said Mroszczyk.
State Recognizes Schools, Individuals
Seventeen educators and schools were honored Monday evening for their achievements in the past year by the state Board of Education during a special meeting at the state Capitol.
Those honored were: Superintendent of the Year Ann Clark, Fairfield's superintendent since 2002; High School Principal of the Year Robert G. Hale from Westbrook High School; Assistant High School Principal of the Year Donna Hayward of Rocky Hill High School; Middle School Principal of the Year Shellie Pierce, who recently retired from Granby Memorial Middle School; Middle School Assistant Principal of the Year Anthony D. Carrano of Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School; Elementary School Principal of the Year Loretta Rubin of Farm Hill Middle School in Middletown; Teacher of the Year Christopher Poulos of Joel Barlow High School in Redding; and Teacher of the Year finalists Sandra Adams, who teaches in Bristol, Mark Danaher of Manchester High School and Susan Matthews of the University High School of Science and Engineering in Hartford.
GARY PETERSON: TIMES COLUMNIST: Start worrying
It was a love-in at Stanford on Tuesday, one of the few news conferences you'll ever see with a home-field advantage. Boosters, donors, athletic department shirts and ties, players and parents were in attendance as Harbaugh was introduced as the school's new football coach. They applauded as he entered the room. They provided him rapt attention when he spoke and laugh track-quality response whenever he made a funny. Everyone thanked everyone for making the day come true. And for good reason. Stanford needed someone it could present as all that to a skeptically indifferent world. In Harbaugh, they cleared the bar with room to spare. The criteria and candidate dovetailed so neatly as to suggest divine intervention. Harbaugh was wildly successful (29-6) at Division I-AA University of San Diego.
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