[blindlaw] FW: Scholarship Opportunity for MBA program in North Carolina

[craig.borne at dot.gov]

FREE MASTERS PROGRAM AT WAKE FOREST RECEIVES POOR RESPONSE 
 
Wake Forest University has an opportunity for minority students to
attend its MBA program for FREE, and so far, the response has been very
poor. Please, pass along this opportunity to your friends, families, and
networks to see if there is an interest. This is a great school and a
tremendous opportunity to attend a top graduate school. 
 
See details below.  The contact person information is: 
 
Derrick S. Boone, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor of Marketing 
Room 3139 Worrell Professional Center 
Babcock Graduate School of Management 
Wake Forest University 1834 Wake 
Forest Drive Winston-Salem , NC 27109-8758 
 
email:              derrick.boone at ... 
Website:          http://mba.wfu.edu/ <http://mba.wfu.edu/>  
Phone:             (336)..758.4475; 
Toll-free:          (866) 925-3622; 
Fax:                 336.758.4514 
 
Message from Derrick S. Boone, Ph.D.: 
 
Greetings, I wanted to let you know about a great opportunity here at
Wake Forest where you can get a FREE education and get PAID while you're
doing it. Our Dean of the Schools of Business is the former CEO of
PepsiCo and very committed to diversity. He's gone around to his CEO
friends, who have agreed to donate a bunch of money to pay tuition and
fees, provide a stipend, and a job, to diverse students. The details are
below. The problem is, response to the program has been dismal! As a
faculty member, I would be embarrassed for him to have to tell his CEO
friends, "thanks so much for your donation, but unfortunately I have to
give it back because we couldn't find Any students who wanted it." So, I
need your help. Please contact me if you, or ANYONE you know is
interested in the program. I want to help out as many young scholars as
I can. Don't worry about whether or not you (or they) have taken the
GMAT, etc. All you need to do at this point is JUST APPLY. 
 
About the Program: The Master of Art in Management program is designed
specifically for liberal arts majors only. The MA degree program is a 10
month intense study of the basic functional areas of  Business. After
graduation and working for approximately two years, all MA graduates are
eligible to apply to Wake Forest as part of the MA/MBA joint degree
program and get the MBA in one year. The new Dean, Steve Reinemund, has
created a new scholarship for diverse students pursuing the MA degree
called the Corporate Fellowship. 
 
The Corporate Fellowship provides full tuition and a $21,000 stipend to
cover living expenses. Additionally, each Corporate Fellow will
participate in a practicum. The practicum has two components,
educational and professional development. Each student will be assigned
a mentor that is a high level executive with their sponsor corporation.
The mentor will oversee an educational project covering 4 of the
functional areas of business using their own corporation as the subject.

 
The student will visit the corporation 3 - 4 times during the program to
present his/her results of their research project. Additionally, the
"professional development" component of the fellowship provides career
coaching and leadership development for the students. 
 
The goal for the corporation is to be able to groom and hopefully, hire
a top candidate from a diverse background for their organization. Of
course, there is no obligation that the students accept any offer of
employment. Still, the student benefits, even if they are not ultimately
hired by their sponsor corporation in that they have the MA degree and
the type of experience that will make them more marketable.