FREE MBA AT WAKE FOREST FOR MINORITY STUDENTS FAST APPROACHING DEADLINE
Free MBA at Wake Forest for Minority Students
January 15, 2010
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
E-mail: 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.
Posted by CNR Newsline on January 15, 2010 9:25 AM |
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January 15, 2010
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
E-mail: 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.
Posted by CNR Newsline on January 15, 2010 9:25 AM |
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