Proton Energy Scholarship Release FINAL

http://www.protonenergyscholarship.org/about.asp
Contact:

Mark Schiller                                                     Laura Wareck
Proton Energy Systems                                      O’Neill and Associates
203-678-2185                                                   978-660-9587
mschiller@protonenergy.com                              lwareck@oneillandassoc.com

For more info click here: https://careers.vanguard.com/vgcareers/home/index.shtml

For Students

UNCF Social Entrepreneurship - USE

USE

click here: http://www.uncf.org/forstudents/use.asp

Official Student Guide to the
PSAT/NMSQT
Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test

click here: http://www.nationalmerit.org/student_guide.pdf

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY

Free MBAs for UG Liberal Arts or General Studies Students at Wake Forest

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@mba.wfu.edu
Website: 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.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (AAWCS)

SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

http://www.cis.famu.edu/~aawcs/

In conjunction with the PBS documentary special, LEGACY, the producer and its partners invite you to participate in the
2009 LEGACY ESSAY CONTEST

What are the Legacy and Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement?

PRIZES: Cash Awards, Computer Laptops, and VIP Capitol Hill Awards Ceremony

Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2009

Eligibility: Junior and Senior High School Students

www.legacyandlessons.com

LEGACY & LESSONS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

WHO: Karz Productions in partnership with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), ASCD (formerly Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development), Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and National Education Association (NEA)

WHAT: An Integrated Three-Part Educational Program for High Schools
WHERE: www.legacyandlessons.com
WHEN: October 13, 2009 through next February, Black History Month, 2010

SUMMARY

The Legacy and Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement is an integrated three-part educational program for high school juniors and seniors. The program includes the Legacy Essay Contest, Legacy Lesson Plan, and Legacy Screenings and Discussion Guide. These are three complementary projects designed to provide teachers with resources to bring African-American history to life for their students.

GOALS

Legacy and Lessons seeks to stimulate high school students to take a serious look at what it means to be black or white in America today, how this has and hasn’t changed since the days of the Civil Rights Movement, and what the lessons are for how to further the quest for genuine racial equity. By compelling students to look at their own lives and times in the context of a continuing struggle to realize our most basic aspirations as a nation, the aim is to dramatize the relevance of history today and to clarify the personal and political challenges that must be confronted for genuine advancement to take place.

BACKGROUND

If the Gates/Crowley incident proved anything, it proved that, despite the landslide election of our first African-American president, racial tension is still a fact of life in America. For all the talk of a new era in race relations, racial disparities in health, crime, incarceration, education, and poverty persist and genuine dialogue about race continues to be elusive. Something must be done to create a new framework for understanding and addressing the issue of race in America, for breaking through the resistance and defensiveness of the past to achieve some clarity and insight into the nature of the racial divide. The idea behind Legacy and Lessons is that the best place to
start is by recognizing that African-American history is, in John Hope Franklin’s words, “a mirror of America,” and that, in Albert Murray’s words, “The so-called black and so-called white people of the United States resemble nobody else in the world so much as they resemble each other.” This is about the black and white in each of us. It is about having a dialogue with history, with each other, and with ourselves.

GO TO www.legacyandlessons.com

Richard Karz is the producer of Legacy: Black and White in America, which is the third film in The Millennium Dinners documentary series. The Millennium Dinners employs interdisciplinary, multicultural, and intergenerational VIP dinner gatherings to explore issues of global change through dialogue and background day-in-the-life profiles and vignettes. The series uses the dinner party as a metaphor to present the conflicts in human nature that have propelled our advancement as a civilization but that jeopardize our future survival, and it looks at the possibilities for a new paradigm in the conduct of human relations that can successfully manage the stresses of the new millennium.

Please see http://www.legacyblackandwhiteinamerica.com/.

The following is a list of scholarships and fellowships with upcoming deadlines. Click on the link provided to get the details about these and 20 additional scholarships at: http://www.multiculturaladvantage.com/opportunity/scholarships/scholarships.asp

To receive a monthly update of scholarships, send an email to: tma-scholarship-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

~Newspaper Association of America Foundation Minority Fellowships

~International Studies Abroad Diversity Scholarships

~J.P. Morgan Launching Leaders MBA Scholarship

~J.P. Morgan Launching Leaders Undergraduate Scholarship

~American Psychological Association's Minority Fellowship Program

~The Erskine A. Peters Dissertation Year Fellowship at Notre Dame

~National Black MBA Association New York Chapter Undergraduate, Graduate and

Ph.D Scholarships

~Ford Foundation Predoctoral Diversity Fellowships

~Ford Foundation Dissertation Diversity Fellowships

~Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowships

~Ford Foundation, International Fellowships Program (IFP)

~East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship

~East-West Center-National Science Foundation Doctoral Fellowships for

Social-Environmental Transitions and Emerging Transitional Diseases

~School for Advanced Research Anne Ray Fellowship for Native Scholars

~President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Five College Doctoral Fellowship Program for Minority Students

~Hispanic Scholarship Fund /Monsanto Fund Scholarship.

~American Dental Association Foundation-Minority Dental Student Scholarship Program

~Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges Dissertation Fellowship

~Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges Postdoctoral Fellowship

~The Coca-Cola Scholars Program Scholarship for High School Seniors

~International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) Program

~National Science Foundation Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Science Minority ~Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Follow-up Research Starter Grants (MPRF)

~Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowships for Aspiring Teachers of Color

~Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study - Excellent and Diversity in the Life .

~The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

~School for International Training Study Abroad Diversity Fund Scholarships

~School for International Training Study Abroad The Compton Fund Scholarships

~School for International Training Study Abroad Engineering Scholarship

~School for International Training Study Abroad Houston International Scholarship

~School for International Training Study Abroad HBCU Scholarships

~School for International Training Study Abroad Middle East and Islamic Studies Scholarship

~School for International Training Study Abroad Sally Bragg Baker Scholarship

~School for International Training Study Abroad The Workum Fund

~NASP-ERT Minority Scholarship Program for Graduate Training in School Psychology

~Arent Fox Annual Diversity Legal Scholarship Program

~National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science MS Engineering Fellowship

~National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science Ph.D. Engineering Fellowship Program

~National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and

Science Ph.D. Science Fellowship Program

~American Indian Services Scholarship

~Wells Fargo/UNCF Scholarship Fund

~Mayor Douglas Palmer Trenton /UNCF Scholarship Program

~Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities (HACU) Global Learning Semesters Scholarships

~Marathon Oil/UNCF CSP 2009 for Seniors and Graduate Students

~Marathon Oil/UNCF CSP 2009 for Sophomores

~Berrien Fragos Thorn Arts Scholarships for Migrant Farmworkers

~BIA Higher Education/Hopi Supplemental Grant

~The School for Advanced Research (SAR) Campbell Fellowship for Women

Scholar-Practitioners from Developing Nations

~American Society For Microbiology International Fellowship for Africa

~American Society For Microbiology Fellowships for Asia

~American Society For Microbiology International Fellowship for Latin America and the Caribbean

~American Society For Microbiology-PAHO Infectious Diseases Epidemiology and

Surveillance Fellowship

~IES Abroad Merit-Based Scholarship for Under-represented Students.

~IES Abroad Merit-Based David Porter Diversity Scholarship

~IES Abroad HBCU Scholarships

~The Sidney B. Williams, Jr. Intellectual Property Law School Scholarship

~Berrien Fragos Thorn Arts Scholarships for Migrant Farmworkers

~Gloria and Joseph Mattera National Scholarship Fund for Migrant Children

~Horatio Alger National Scholarship Program

~Obuchi Student Scholarship

~AAUW American Fellowships for Women

~AAUW International Fellowships for Women

~Center for Global Education Semester Programs Abroad Scholarships for

Students from Historically Underrepresented Groups

Expert Guidance from

Marianne Ragins

Winner of More Than $400,000 in Scholarship Money

For More Than A Decade - Helping Students, Parents & Educators

Learn How to Get Money for College!

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Scholarship Information

Florida A & M University is providing an outstanding opportunity for Black women entering college in the fall of 2009. It is designed to address their absence in the field of computer technology. Dr. Jason Black is the Principal Investigator of a recently awarded $552,000 NSF Grant entitled African-American Women in Computer Science. The grant provides scholarships from $4000 to $10,000 per year for female African American students.

We need your help to get the word out about this great opportunity to build back up the enrollment of women in the CIS Department. Pass this information along to high school or community college students , their parents, and to guidance counselors you may know. The full text of the scholarship can be found at
http://www.cis.famu.edu/~aawcs/

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY HAS 10 FULL RIDES FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN

Syracuse University has 10 Full Rides for African American Men and Women Interested in Studying Architecture.
Mark Robbins, Dean of Syracuse University's School of Architecture is desperately seeking young men and women of color interested in pursuing a five year professional degree in Architecture. He says he's deeply committed to bringing diversity to his field and has scholarship money set aside to fully cover education costs for 10 students. He says that Hispanic enrollment in the school has increased substantially, but it's been harder to attract African Americans. Syracuse University 's School of Architecture has a great reputation and this seems like a terrific opportunity, so please pass this on to everyone you know.
Contact: Mark Robbins, Dean, School of Architecture 315-443- 2255, robbinsm@syr.edu

FOUR (4) YEARS FREE - High School Senior African American Males

Do you know any Black Males (who are Seniors in high school) who want to
go to college for FREE. The black colleges are looking for future Black
Male Teachers and will send them to Universities/Colleges FOUR (4) YEARS FREE; THIS IS FOR MALES ONLY.

1. Have parents fill out this application.
2. Read the Mission Statement.
There are Ten (10) different South Carolina Colleges or Universities
including:

Benedict College
http://www.callmemister.clemson.edu/schools/benedict.htm

Claflin University
http://www.callmemister.clemson.edu/schools/claflin.htm

Clemson University
http://www.callmemister.clemson.edu/schools/

Morris College
http://www.callmemister.clemson.edu/schools/morris.htm South Carolina State University
http://www.callmemister.clemson.edu/schools/southcarolinastate.htm

Greenville Technical College
http://www.callmemister.clemson.edu/schools/greenvilletech.htm

Midlands Technical College
http://www.callmemister.clemson.edu/schools/midlands.htm

Alma Exley Scholarship Program

NEWS: The scholarship recipients for 2009 will be honored at a reception in Hartford on Wednesday, May 20. Click here.

NEW FEATURE: "In Their Own Words" - scholarship recipients write for this website.

Alma Exley, a dedicated educator, recognized that America’s greatest strength is its diversity. As a professional in the Connecticut Department of Education, she worked
to bring more people of color into the teaching profession. Before she died in 1995, she asked her family to establish a scholarship program to carry on her work.
(See more in Objectives and About)
Since then, the Alma Exley Scholarship Program has honored a number of outstanding
future teachers with financial awards and recognition. Read more about the recipients.

Scholarships are awarded annually to students in accredited teacher-preparation programs in Connecticut. Currently, each scholarship for a student in a four-year program is valued at $3,000 or more, and a student in the Alternate Route to Certification will receive a $500 award.

Go to the Application Process page to check your eligibility and learn more about how to apply. The application deadline each year is October 31.

TO SUPPORT the scholarship, please click here. The Community Foundation of Greater New Britain oversees the scholarship application and selection process of the Alma Exley Scholarship Program. The foundation also administers the program’s endowment, which has been created by supporters’ donations.
For further information, phone: 860-229-6018; E-mail: cfgnb@cfgnb.org

Subject: Scholarships for Students of Color!!

A number of companies and organizations have set money aside for scholarships to minority students, but a great deal of that money is being returned because of a lack of interest or awareness. Money shouldn't be returned to donating companies because people are failing to apply for it because they don’t know about it.

Please get the word out through your networks that money is available. If you work with youth (directly or indirectly), in high schools or organizations serving them and the students, are a parent, college student or getting ready to become one, you’ll want to know about the available resources. Please see the list below of 51 donating organizations. If for whatever reason clicking on the link does not work, type in the Web site address manually. Best of luck in your efforts!

1) BELL LABS FELLOWSHIPS FOR UNDER REPRESENTED MINORITIES http://www.bell-labs.com/fellowships/CRFP/info.html

2) Student Inventors Scholarships http://www.invent.org/collegiate http://www.invent.org/collegiate/

3) Student Video Scholarships http://www.christophers.org/vidcon2k.html

4) Coca-Cola Two Year College Scholarships http://www.coca-colascholars.org/programs.html

7) Brand Essay Competition http://www..instituteforbrandleaders hip.org/IBLEssayContest-2002Rules.htm

8) Gates Millennium Scholarships (major) http://www.gmsp.org/nominationmaterials/read.dbm?ID=12

9) Xerox Scholarships for Students http://www2.xerox.com/go/xrx/about_xerox/about_xerox_detail.jsp

10) Sports Scholarships and Internships http://www.ncaa.org/about/scholarships.html

11) National Assoc. of Black Journalists Scholarships (NABJ) < /B>< /FONT>http://www.nabj.org/html/studentsvcs.html

12) Saul T. Wilson Scholarships (Veterinary) http://www.aphis.usda.gov/mb/mrphr/jobs/stw.html

14) FinAid: The Smart Students Guide to20Financial Aid scholarships) http://www.finaid.org/

15) Presidential Freedom Scholarships http://www.nationalservice.org/scholarships/

16) Microsoft Scholarship Program http://www.microsoft.com/college/scholarships/minority.asp

17) Wired Scholar Free Scholarship Search http://www.wiredscholar.com/paying/scholarship_search/pay_scholarship _search.jsp

18) Hope Scholarships & Lifetime Credits http://www.ed.gov/inits/hope/

19) William Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarship for Minority Students http://www.apsanet.org/PS/grants/aspen3.cfm

20) Multiple List of Minority Scholarships http://gehon.ir.mia mi.edu/financial-assistance/Scholarship/black.html

21) Guaranteed Scholarships http://www.guaranteed-scholarships.com/

22) BOEING scholarships (some HBCU connects) http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/educationrelations/scholarships

23) Easley National Scholarship Program http://www.naas.org/senior.htm

24) Maryland Artists Scholarships http://www.maef.org/

26) Jacki Tuckfield Memorial Graduate Business Scholarship (for AA students in South Florida ) http://www.jackituckfield.org/

27) Historically Black College & University Scholarships http://www.iesabroa d.org/info/hbcu.htm

28) Actuarial Scholarships for Minority Students http://www.beanactuary.org/minority/scholarships.htm

29) International Students Scholarships & Aid Help http://www.iefa.org/

30) College Board Scholarship Search http://cbweb10p.coll! egeboar d.org/fundfinder/html/fundfind01.html

31) Burger King Scholarship Program http://www.bkscholars.csfa.org/

32) < SPAN class=ecececececyshortcuts>Siemens Westinghouse Competition http://www.siemens-foundationorg/

33) GE and LULAC Scholarship Funds http://www.lulac.org/Programs/Scholar.html

34) CollegeNet ' s Scholarship Database http://mach25.collegenet.com/cgi-bin/M25/index

35) Union Sponsored Scholarships and Aid http://www.aflcioorg/scholarships/scholar.htm

36) Federal Scholarships & Aid Gateways 25 Scholarship Gateways from Black Excel http://www.blackexcel.org/25scholarships.htm

37) Scholarship & Financial Aid Help http://www.blackexcel.org/fin-sch.htm

38) Scholarship Links (Ed Finance Group) http://www.efg.net/link_scholarship.htm

39) FAFSA On The Web (Your Key Aid Form & Info) http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/

40) Aid &Resources For Re-Entry Students http://www.back2college.com/

41) Scholarships and Fellowships http://www.osc.cuny.edu/sep/links.h tml

42) Scholarships for Study in Paralegal Studies http://www.paralegals.org/Choice/2000west.htm

43) HBCU Packard Sit Abroad Scholarships (for study around the world) http://www.sit.edu/studyabroad/packard_nomination.html

44) Scholarship and Fellowship Opportunities http://ccmi.uchicago.edu/schl1.html

45) INROADS internships http://www.inroads.org/

46) ACT-SO Olympics of the Mind 'A Scholarships 'ttp://www.naacp.org/work/actso/act-so.shtml

48) ScienceNet Scholarship Listing 'ttp://www.sciencenet.emory.edu/undergrad/scholarships.html

49) Graduate Fellowships For Minorities Nationwide 'ttp://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN/list.phtml?category=MINORITIES< /A>

50) RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS AT OXFORD 'ttp://www..rhodesscholar.org /info.html

51) The Roothbert Scholarship Fund 'ttp://www.roothbertfund.org/schol

Scholarships for African American Students

Share with family and friends

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS ARE NOT APPLYING FOR SCHOLARSHIPS:

Even if you do not have a college-aged child at home, please share this with someone who does, and to anyone and everyone that comes to mind. Though there are a number of companies and organizations that have donated money for scholarships to African Americans, a great deal of the money is being returned because of a lack of interest or awareness.
No one is going to knock on our doors and ask if we can use a scholarship.
Take the initiative to get your children involved.! Money shouldn't be returned to donating companies because we fail to apply for it. Please pass this information on to family members, nieces, nephews, friends with children etc. We must get the word out that money is available. If you are a college student or getting ready to become one, you probably already know how useful additional money can be. (If clicking on the link doesn't work, then type in the Web site address manually.)

Please click the following link for a list of available scholarships - Scholarships

Graduate School Opportunity

Please see the information below.
_______________________________________
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! It's hard for me to believe in the age of Obama, we can't pay black people to go to school? 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 know your network has a long reach, and 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.

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@mba.wfu.edu

p 336.758.4475
f 336.758.4514

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 oneyear. 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.

Link to information for Fairfield County Community Foundation
The 2009-10 Urban School Leaders Fellowship
USLF_registration_2009_10_17x11.pdf

Scholarship Information

Free Nursing Program

Nursing Program/free tuition

If you know of anyone between 18-28 years old, interested in the Nursing field, University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is offering FREE tuition, FREE books, a $250 monthly stipend, and guaranteed job placement as a nurse at Providence Hospital upon graduation (it's a 3 year program) with a starting salary of $40,000.

The program is recruiting new students now!! Please contact Ms. Beshon Smith (202) 266-5481 or email Bsmith@urbanalliance.org < mailto:Bsmith@urbanalliance.org >

Information on the Jackie Robinson Scholarship Foundation:

http://www.jackierobinson.org/about/program.php

Florida

CIS Program Seeks to Resolve the Digital Divide Between African-American Women with New Grant (archive)

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida A&M University (FAMU) Computer Information Sciences (CIS) Program, housed in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant valued at $552,000 dedicated to recruiting minority women to computer science and information technology disciplines.

“The numbers are staggering,” said Jason T. Black, Ph. D., assistant professor in CIS. “The latest data shows that out of all U.S. entering freshmen declaring a major in computer science, African-American women made up only 3.3 percent. The fact is that women are not choosing technology, and this is a dangerous predicament. When you couple that with the fact that it is estimated that 75 percent of all jobs by the year 2020 will require a technology background, it becomes a crisis call.”

The program, entitled African-American Women in Computer Science, (AAWCS), is a four-year program that provides scholarships and other assistance to women who express a financial need and an interest in computer science or information technology.

AAWCS, created by Black, also the principal investigator for the program, and Edward L. Jones, Ph. D., chair of the CIS program, will directly address the dismal number of minority women, particularly African-American women that pursue degrees in computer science or information technology.

Women who apply to AAWCS will be accepted based on financial need, and will be awarded a scholarship of between $3,000 and $5,000 per semester. In addition to the funding, the women will participate in CIS departmental clubs and organizations, such as the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Club, the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), and the CIS Mentoring Organization (CISMO). AAWCS scholars will also be involved in other STEM programs, such as the Florida/Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (FGLSAMP) scholarship program, and the Students and Technology in Academia, Research and Service (STARS) Alliance, both NSF-funded programs.

An added benefit to the students is the conference participation, where selected AAWCS scholars will be chosen to attend two national conferences, paid for by the grant, each year, such as the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing and the National Conference of Women in Information Technology (NCWIT).

The AAWCS program begins operation on July 1 and will run until June 30, 2012. Applications for the program can be requested by contacting Black at jblack@cis.famu.edu or (850) 412-7354

Harvard University Announcement

Harvard University announced over the weekend that from now on undergraduate students from low-income families will pay no tuition. In making the announcement, Harvard's president Lawrence H. Summers said, "When only ten percent of the students in elite higher education come from families in the lower half of the income distribution, we are not doing enough. We are not doing enough in bringing elite higher education to the lower half of the income distribution."
If you know of a family earning less than $60,000 a year with an honor student graduating from high school soon, Harvard University wants to pay the tuition. The prestigious university recently announced that from now on undergraduate students from low-income families can go to Harvard for free... no tuition and no student loans!

To find out more about Harvard offering free tuition for families making less than $60,000 a year, visit Harvard's financial aid website at: http://www.harvard.edu/admissions/

Paid internships for ages 18-24

If you have children in the 18-24 age group or friends with kids in this age group, or you know a young adult who could benefit from an internship program: Visit http://www.yearup.org/ for information about this Paid Internship/Training Program for Youth. Year Up is an intensive one-year training program for young adults ages 18 to 24 who provide Fortune 100 companies like Merrill Lynch, American Express, Lehman Brothers and Bank of America with Information Technology entry-level talent. Throughout the course of one year, our students earn up to 16 college credits from Pace University learn technical and professional skills and are placed in paid internships.

`FOUR (4) YEARS FREE College - For African American Males`

FOUR (4) YEARS FREE Do you know any Black Males (who are Seniors in high school) who want to go to college for FREE. The black colleges are looking for future Black Male Teachers and will send them to Universities/Colleges FOUR (4)YEARS FREE; THIS IS FOR MALES ONLY. 1. Have parents fill out this application. 2. Read the Mission Statement. There are Ten (10) different South 3. Carolina Colleges or Universities including: Benedict College Claflin University Clemson University Morris College South Carolina State University Greenville Technical College Midlands Technical College Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College Tri-County Technical College Trident Technical College

`http://www.callmemister.clemson.edu/schools/benedict.htm;`

`Scholarships for Youth of Color...some deadlines coming soon`

1)Holocaust Remembrance Scholarships http://holocaust.hklaw.com/2008/index.asp (http://holocaust.hklaw.com/2008/index.asp) 2) The Ayn Rand Institute:Essay Contests (gifts for educators, as well) http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=education_contests_index (http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=education_contests_index) 3) Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund http://www.thurgoodmarshallfund.org/home/scholarship_overview.html_ (http://www.thurgoodmarshallfund.org/home/scholarship_overview.html) 4) American political Science Assoc, networking a world of scholars (multiple scholarships, programs & opportunites) http://www.apsanet.org/PS/grants/aspen3.cfm_ (http://www.apsanet.org/PS/grants/aspen3.cfm) 5) Cornell University Graduate School -- Diversity fellowships http://www.gradschool.cornell.edu/index.php?p=34 (http://www.gradschool.cornell.edu/index.php?p=34) 6) Black Alliance for Educational Options/Scholarship Information http://www.baeo.org/programs?program_id=2_ (http://www.baeo.org/programs?program_id=2) 7) ScienceNet: Undergraduate - Scholarships http://www.cse.emory.edu/sciencenet/undergrad/scholarships.html (http://www.cse.emory.edu/sciencenet/undergrad/scholarships.html) 8) World Learning--Study Abroad Scholarships http://www.worldlearning.org/721.htm_ (http://www.worldlearning.org/721.htm) 9) Multiple List of Minority Scholarships http://www.blackexcel.org/25scholarships.htm_ (http://www.blackexcel.org/25scholarships.htm) 10) Actuarial Scholarships for Minority Students http://blackactuaries.org/actuary/scholarships.php (http://blackactuaries.org/actuary/scholarships.php) 11) College Scholarships, Graduate Fellowships & Postdoctoral Awards for All Minorities http://scholarships.fatomei.com/minorities.html (http://scholarships.fatomei.com/minorities.html)