Aviation Scholarships -- Get Paid To Learn

American Journalism Review:

"What Works?
Burlington, North Carolina’s Times-News and Colorado’s Greeley Tribune have similar circulations and hometown demographics. Yet while the staff in Burlington’s newsroom is practically all white, Greeley’s is diverse. What does Greeley do that Burlington doesn’t?

By Lori Robertson"

AP Wire | 07/20/2004 | Death-row magazine gives scholarships to crime victims: "In the back office of a suburban flower shop, a group of parishioners puts together a magazine from letters written by death row inmates.

Any money made from subscriptions of the magazine goes toward scholarships that are given to relatives of murder victims.

'We want to meet that evil with good,' said Fred Moor, 57, leader of the group that publishes Compassion.

The idea for the magazine came in 2001 when parishioners of St. Rose Catholic Church in Perrysburg received a letter from an inmate on death row in Youngstown."

Wilberforce University has receieved a $2 Million endowment from the estate of Ray Charles. The Ray Charles Scholarship is to be awarded to "aspiring musicians and vocalists with the requisite academic experiences."

For more information contact the Mr. Jeremy Winston, the recently appointed Ray Charles Distinguished Chair of Distingquished and Choral Music(see contact info below).

Jermey Winston, M.A.
Ray Charles Distingquished Chair
of Sacred and Choral Music
(937) 708-5439, office
(443) 864-7839, cell
jwinston@wilberforce.edu

NPR : Searching for College Scholarships: "Imagine if you could go to college for free? Author Ben Kaplan tells us how he did it, and he gives us some tips for finding scholarships of our own."

Company aims to educate Hispanics on technology: "Eliot Rivera, sales representative for Brewster Technology, said there is a need for English-as-a-second-language and computer training in the Hispanic community. Brewster Technology wants to help Hispanics obtain education and training, as well as grants and loans to pay for that. Starting next month, the company will hold its first computer class in Spanish."

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - Washington, D.C.: Education Sec. Paige blasts NAACP leaders: "'The civil-rights movement has historically been multicultural, and many of its founders, including those who established the NAACP, were in fact white,' Paige said. 'I long for the day when our nation's education policy will not be grist for the partisan mill - when we can work together, black and white, rich and poor, for the sake of our children.'"

Nursing, radiology students wooed with scholarships - 2004-07-12 - New Mexico Business Weekly: "'Across the nation, there are hospitals taking this approach [to recruitment]. But we're on the cutting edge in New Mexico,' says Sandy Dubrock, UNM Hospital's recruitment manager. 'With the shortage [of nurses] ... we wanted to take a pro-active approach and give the money to the students while they're still in school.'"

Extra effort helps student capture Gates scholarship: "Good grades and recommendation letters are requirements, but leadership skills and work in the community are what selection committees pay close attention to, said Mary Williams, spokeswoman for the United Negro College Fund, which is an administrator of the scholarship.

'We get thousands upon thousands of applications,' Williams said. Although she could not quote a figure for 2004, a news release on the Gates Millennium Scholars Web site, www.gmsp.org, said more than 62,000 high school seniors applied in 2000.

The scholarship program was begun five years ago with $1billion from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Its mission is to give 20,000 students from low-income minority families an opportunity to go to college, Williams said."

Black science students rare, but NSU and Hampton near top (HamptonRoads.com/Pilot Online)

But NSU’s total number stood at only 14. Hampton University ranked seventh nationwide in the number of black recipients of math degrees – with 11.

Throwing Money At Education Problem Isn't Enough Sunday Times (Johannesburg)
COLUMN - July 4, 2004

Local and international research indicates that the common-sense view is right: school performance depends less on inputs than on hard-to-measure factors such as the quality of the school principal, teacher commitment, and community involvement.

Each of these deserves a framework where incentives encourage teachers and students to perform. And we, parents and the public, need to know who is doing their job and who is not.

deepikaglobal.com - National News Detail: "Satellite education to help remove illiteracy: ISRO Chairman
New Delhi, July 2 (UNI) In a giant leap towards eradicating illiteracy from the country, the Indian Space Research Organisation will soon launch a dedicated educational satellite, its Chairman G Madhavan Nair said today.

The educational satellite of the Indira Gandhi National Open University 'EDUSAT' could be launched anytime before the year-end, he said while delivering a lecture on 'Development of Space Programme and Its Impact on Education' at the IGNOU here.

''Primarily developed for school, college and higher level learning, the satellite would take 'virtual classroom' to all the regions of the country and provide high-quality education by eminent scientists, teachers and educationists to the less privileged classrooms in remote areas.'' In an effort to carry forward the goals of mission 'Eradicating Illiteracy', the satellite would bring non-formal education and developmental communication like adult education withing easy reach of even the farthest corners of the country. ''Besides this it would help train farmers and artisans on improving their knowledge base and skills,'' Dr Nair said."