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Delete Cyberbullying Scholarship
November 23, 2014
Who Can Apply?
To apply, you must be:
- A U.S. citizen or permanent resident
- Attending or planning to attend an accredited U.S. college or university for undergraduate or graduate studies
- A high school, college or graduate student or a student planning to enter college
How Do You Apply?
To apply, complete the online application form. You can also print out the application and mail it to:
Delete Cyberbullying
2261 Market Street #291
San Francisco, CA 94114
Selection Criteria
Selection is based on the written essay and focused on creativity, content and a commitment to the cause of deleting cyberbullying. The awards are one-time only and not renewable.
Deadline and Important Dates
- Deadline: June 30, 2015
- Winners selected and notified by: July 31, 2015
Xerox Technical Minority Scholarships
November 23, 2014 Xerox Technical Minority Scholarship Available to current college students, pursuing a career in Technology has its built-in challenges. What needn’t be a challenge is finding the financial wherewithal that will help you in achieving your goals. To that end, Xerox established the Technical Minority Scholarship Program. In demonstration of our commitment to the academic success of minority students and to the cultivation and recruitment of qualified minority employees in technical fields, scholarships are available in the amount depending on tuition balance, academic excellence and classification. Applicants must be academic high-achievers (3.0 or better GPA). Applicants must be US citizens or visa-holding Permanent Residents of African American, Asian, Pacific Island, Native American, Native Alaskan, or Hispanic descent. They must be enrolled as a full time undergraduate or graduate student in any of the following technical fields: Chemistry, Information Management, Computing & Software Systems, Material Science, Printing Management Science, Laser Optics, Physics, Material Science, and Engineering (Chemical, Computer, Electrical, Imaging, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Optical, or Software). Deadline: Award Amount: |
Byrnes Scholarship (South Carolina Only)
November 22, 2014The 2025 James F. Byrnes Foundation scholarship application packet is now available for download as an Adobe electronic form (download the latest version of Adobe Reader). The application and all recommendation forms must be returned by January 25, 2025, by email to kwhite at jfbf dot org.
Please note: Applications will not be considered if:
- The application is submitted before December 1, 2024.
- Any part of the application is missing or incomplete.
- Two reference forms are not submitted for the application.
- The application is submitted after January 25, 2025.
Please follow the detailed instructions within the packet for submitting the application as outlined. Hard copies of the application will not be accepted. If there are any concerns, please call 803-254-9325 or contact Kenya White.
Visit website: https://byrnesscholars.org/
U.S. Department of State Youth Programs
November 6, 2014
American Youth Leadership Program
The American Youth Leadership Program is a 3 to 4 week intensive, leadership training exchange program for U.S. high school students and adult mentors to gain firsthand knowledge of foreign cultures and collaborate on examining issues with global significance
Benjamin Franklin Summer Institutes
The Benjamin Franklin Summer Institutes are intensive academic institutes hosted by a U.S. college or university and focus on global issues, in addition to leadership and community service.
Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange
The Congress–Bundestag Youth Exchange Program (CBYX) offers American students a scholarship for an academic year in Germany. Participating students develop critical intercultural skills while learning what it is like to live and attend school in Germany.
English Access Microscholarship Program
The English Access Microscholarship Program (Access) provides a foundation of English language skills to talented 14-18 year-olds from disadvantaged sectors through after-school classes and intensive summer sessions.
Future Leaders Exchange
The Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program provides scholarships for high school students (ages 15-17) from Eurasia to spend an academic year in the United States, living with a family and attending an American high school.
German American Partnership Program
The German American Partnership Program (GAPP) allows groups of U.S. high school students and German secondary school students to visit a each other’s community and school. In both directions, students live with a host family.
Global Connections and Exchange
The Global Connections and Exchange (GCE) Program supports collaboration and online linkages among students, educators, and community youth leaders from U.S. and overseas secondary schools and youth organizations.
Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange & Study Aborad
American high school students in the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange & Study (YES) Abroad program spend one academic semester or year studying abroad in select countries with significant Muslim populations. Students live with host families, attend high school, engage in activities to learn about the host country’s society and values, and educate others about American culture while learning about their host country’s culture.
Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange & Study
The Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program provides scholarships to high school students from countries with significant Muslim populations to spend up to one academic year in the United States. Students live with host families, attend high school, engage in activities to learn about U.S. society and values, and educate others about their home countries and cultures.
National Security Language Initiative for Youth
National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) provides merit-based scholarships to U.S. high school students and recent graduates interested in learning less-commonly studied foreign languages overseas.
TechGirls
TechGirls is an international exchange program designed to empower young girls to pursue careers in the science and technology sectors.
The Youth Ambassadors Program brings together high school students and adult mentors from countries across the Americas to promote mutual understanding, increase leadership skills, and prepare youth to make a difference in their communities.
Exchanges are primarily from Latin America and the Caribbean to the United States, but also include delegations from the United States to select countries.
Participants will engage in workshops, community service activities, team building exercises, meetings with community leaders, and home stays with American families. Upon their return home, the students apply what they have learned to implement projects that serve needs in their communities.
Youth Leadership Programs
Youth Leadership Programs foster mutual understanding, respect, and civic engagement among young Americans and their international peers. Exchanges are three to four weeks in duration and involve youth ages 15-18, and adults who work with youth.
The Fulbright Program
November 6, 2014
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.
Programs include:
- Student Program
- Scholar Program
- Fulbright-Clinton Fellowships
- Fulbright-mtvU Fellowships
- Fulbright Artic
- Fulbright NEXUS
- Teacher Exchange Program
- Humphrey Program
- Fulbright-Hays Programs
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STEM Opportunities
October 31, 2014
The Emory University James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies is one of 11 higher education institutions that are partnering with Xavier University of Louisiana as part of the national Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) Initiative. Xavier University of Louisiana, an Historically Black College and University is first among the nation’s colleges and universities in the number of African American graduates who go on to complete medical school, according to data compiled by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Xavier had 60 African-American graduates earn medical degrees in 2011, the latest year for which complete data is available. Xavier is one of the nation’s top four colleges of pharmacy in graduating African Americans with Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D) degrees.
A National Science Foundation report ranks Xavier 1st in the nation in producing African American graduates who go on to receive life sciences PhDs., 5th in the nation in producing African American graduates who go on to receive science and engineering PhDs, and 7th in the nation in producing African American graduates who go on to receive physical sciences PhDs. A Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine report showed Xavier tied for 12th nationwide in the number of African American students earning professional doctorate degrees (in this case, the Pharm.D. degree) with 54.
The Department of Physics is number one in the nation for awarding African Americans baccalaureate degrees in physics and the physical sciences, according to the latest report from the American Institute of Physics (AIP). Xavier is consistently ranked by the American Chemical Society as one of the top 25 universities in the nation in awarding bachelor’s degrees in chemistry (Xavier University of Louisiana).
Xavier will use part of the $19.6 million grant to expand the already thriving biomedical programs the historically black university offers its students. Laney Graduate School and other partner institutions will have access to Xavier STEM students to participate in summer research programs and ultimately attract these students to their graduate programs. The students, known as BUILD scholars, are motivated undergraduate science students interested in doing research and pursuing a Ph.D.
The BUILD partnership will complement programming already taking place in the Laney Graduate School. Just last year, the NIH awarded the Laney Graduate School a $2.5 million grant to implement the Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) program. IMSD, directed by Keith Wilkinson and Patricia Marsteller, also seeks to increase the number of undergraduate and graduate students from underrepresented groups who complete doctoral degrees and enter the biological and biomedical sciences research workforce.
“Our commitment to enhancing diversity and inclusion at Emory is being implemented through robust, innovative programming that creates pipelines to increase the number of underrepresented students entering and progressing through doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences and STEM fields,” says Lisa Tedesco, vice provost for Academic Affairs-Graduate Studies and dean of Laney Graduate School.
“Partnership with Xavier University through the BUILD Initiative will undoubtedly benefit—and better—our efforts,” she says.
Xavier, which already leads the nation in the number of African American graduates who go on to complete Ph.D.s in the life sciences, aims to triple the number of graduates and increase the number of African American life science Ph.D.s by 10 percent, according to Xavier President Norman Francis.
“We are proud that NIH has named us one of the institutions that believes it can uniquely contribute to this important goal,” he says.
Tedesco says that a deeper level of engagement with BUILD scholars during their undergraduate experience “will create opportunities that we hope will not only attract them to our programs at Emory, but ultimately create and nurture a biomedical workforce that is more representative of the unique perspectives and diversity of our nation.”
In addition to Emory, other BUILD partners include Johns Hopkins University, Louisiana State University and its Health Sciences Center, Tulane University, University of Wisconsin, Meharry Medical College, George Washington University, Penn State University, University of Rochester and University of California San Francisco.
The award is part of a $240 million NIH investment to develop new approaches to engage student researchers, including those from underrepresented backgrounds, and prepare them to thrive in the NIH-funded workforce. Xavier and fellow awardees will establish a national consortium to train, mentor and encourage students from underrepresented groups to enter into and stay in research careers.
Xavier’s award under the BUILD initiative was one of 12 awards totaling some $31 million in fiscal year 2014 announced Oct. 22 by NIH. This year’s awards are part of a projected five-year program to support more than 50 awardees and partnering institutions.
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Stories of Resilience
October 27, 2014
The great equalizer in college admissions is student performance. Students who are willing to make the sacrifice and commitment to pursuing academic excellence, whether in Oakland, California, Long Island, New York, or India, are gaining admission into top colleges.
Oakland teen, Akintunde Ahmad (pictured here), accepted into multiple Ivy League schools (Yale, Brown, Columbia, and more).
Washington, DC student, Rashema Melson, whose father was killed when she was 7 months old, goes from homeless shelter to Georgetown University on a full scholarship.
Long Island, New York student, Kwasi Enin, accepted into all 8 Ivy League schools.
Dawn Loggins, senior and high school janitor, accepted into Harvard.
Indian students use Ivy League colleges as their “safety” schools.
From Mississippi to the Ivy League for low-income students, Justin Porter and Travis Reginald.
Richmond High School student, Guadalupe Morales, is Ivy League bound (Brown University). Teachers describe her work ethic, commitment, and grit in overcoming the challenges that she faced.
Wells Fargo Opportunities for Future Leaders
October 7, 2014
Investment Banking / Sales & Trading
You’re invited to apply to the Wells Fargo Securities Freshman Finance Forum — an event for top freshman undergraduate students in any major who are interested in exploring a career in business and learning about the variety of opportunities within the financial services industry.
What to expect:
- Learn about Wells Fargo Securities (WFS), the financial services industry, and careers in investment banking and sales & trading
- Meet with senior management and WFS professionals
- Participate in information sessions, panels, and networking events
Conference Dates and Location:
Charlotte, NC: March 10-11, 2016
All travel and meal expenses will be paid by Wells Fargo.
Qualifications
The program is open to all freshman inclusive of minorities, females, protected veterans, people with disabilities and LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) pursuing a bachelor’s degree in any major with an expected graduation by December 2018, or May/June 2019
College Sophomores and Juniors
When you start your career with a Wells Fargo undergraduate program, you’ll start laying the foundation for your future success while developing professional skills you can’t learn in the classroom.
Each program is designed to support your development. That’s why they all include exclusive training and networking opportunities, exposure to Wells Fargo’s top leaders, mentoring, and coaching, and more. You’ll work alongside experienced team members and experience first-hand what Wells Fargo offers our clients, and our team members.
Explore your future and contact us if you’d like to learn more.
College Seniors
When you start your career with a Wells Fargo undergraduate program, you’ll develop your professional skills faster than you might with a typical job out of college.
Each program is designed to support your development, and help set you up for success in your transition from academic life to the business world. That’s why each program includes exclusive training and networking opportunities, exposure to Wells Fargo’s top leaders, mentoring, and coaching, and more. You’ll work alongside experienced team members to see what Wells Fargo offers our clients, and our team members.
Explore your future, and let us know if you’d like to learn more.
2014 Turner Chapel AME Church Education Ministry College Fair
September 16, 2014
Student Loan Assistance
June 11, 2014
President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum that will allow an additional 5 million borrowers with federal student loans to cap their monthly payments at just 10 percent of their income.
FACTSHEET: Making Student Loans More Affordable
- 71 percent of those earning a bachelor’s degree graduate with debt, which averages $29,400.
- The Presidential Memorandum also outlines a series of new executive actions aimed to support federal student loan borrowers, especially for vulnerable borrowers who may be at greater risk of defaulting on their loans.
- The Secretary of Education has been directed to ensure that student loans remain affordable for all who borrowed federal direct loans as students by allowing them cap their payments at 10 percent of their monthly incomes. The Department will begin the process to amend its regulations this fall with a goal of making the new plan available to borrowers by December 2015.
- Most students taking out loans today can already cap their loan payments at 10 percent of their incomes. Monthly payments will be set on a sliding scale based upon income. Any remaining balance is forgiven after 20 years of payments, or 10 years for those in public service jobs.
- The Servicemember Civil Relief Act requires all lenders to cap interest rates on student loans – including federal student loans — at 6 percent for eligible servicemembers.
- The American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC) provides up to $2,500 to help pay for each year of college. But the process of claiming education tax credits like the AOTC can be complex for many students, including for the 9 million students who receive Pell Grants, and hundreds of millions of dollars of education credits go unclaimed each year. To help address this complexity, the Department of Treasury will release a fact sheet clarifying how Pell Grant recipients may claim the AOTC.
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