[Njabs-talk] Wake Forest University Opportunity for Minority Students

[Quintina M. Singleton]

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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.

?

Sarah D. Wills-Dubose, MA, M.Ed, RHIA

Director Health Information Services

Summit Behavioral Healthcare

1101 Summit Road

Cincinnati, Ohio 45237-2621

513-948-3328

513-948-3673 (Fax)

wills-duboses at mh.state.oh.us

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