[nabs-l] Fwd: Graduate Work Opportunity

[Arielle Silverman]

I think this has been circulated before, but it looks like they still
need people to apply for this great opportunity!

Arielle

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Pamela Allen <pallen at lcb-ruston.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:46:57 -0500
Subject: Graduate Work Opportunity
To: Daphne Mitchell <dmitchell at lcb-ruston.com>, Susan Clark
<sclark at lcb-ruston.com>, Julie Russell <jrussell at dss.state.la.us>,
Bethel Murphy <bmurphy at lcb-ruston.com>
Cc: Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com>


This was sent to me.
Please share with others.
Maybe we can find some good candidates.

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I am passing along a request for disabled students to consider
what looks
like a great opportunity for graduate students to consider a
marketing
degree and career opportunity -

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 take advantage of it and
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.   In business, you have to act when the opportunity
is
presented, and that is now.

  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.

  Wake Forest University has an opportunity for minority students
to
attend their MBA program for FREE, and so far, the response has
been   very
poor.  Please, 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 for anyone who is interested 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
  derrick.boone at mba.wfu.edu


John emailed him a nice response.

Love and Blessings,
LaVonne








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Pamela Allen
Executive Director
800-234-4166
www.lcb-ruston.com