A great opportunity has been offered at Wake Forest University. You can receive a FREE EDUCATION and get PAID while you’re doing it.!
The Dean of the School of Business is the former CEO of PepsiCo and very committed to diversity.His CEO friends,have agreed to donate a bunch of money to pay tuition and fees, provide a stipend, and a job, to diverse students. There has been a dismal amount of responses. This is a wonderful chance to further your education. All the student has to do is 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.
BCG TIP: BE SURE TO UTILIZE THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY OR PASS ALONG TO A BUDDING STUDENT THAT YOU KNOW WILL HIGHLY BENEFIT!
I like your site and appreciate everything you all are doing. Unfortunately, as I stated on Twitter, this info is inaccurate. Yes there was a corporate fellowship program a few years back but it hasn’t been funded since then.
Wake Forest does offer an excellent MBA program especially for working adults. So please continue to encourage minorities to apply but not under this specific program. I would hate for the credibility of this site to be damaged based on a lack of due diligence.
I know this post is extremely old, but I would hate for people of color to think that this opportunity is no longer available. WFU is still offering this scholarship; it is simply listed under “Corporate Fellowships” . Those interested in the MA program may visit http://business.wfu.edu/default.aspx?id=1999. Good luck.
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