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...world, provides an all-expenses paid academic experience at the University of Oxford in England. The criteria for selection include “high academic achievement, integrity of character, a spirit of unselfishness, respect for others potential for leadership, and physical vigor,” according to the scholarship??s Web site. Snider, a resident of Friendswood, Texas and a senior in Mather House, is studying biological anthropology. She said her particular interests lie in the interactions between cultural beliefs and scientific and medical practice. According to Snider, how “social cultural beliefs and institutions interact...
...Similar efforts have been made in the past. The Truman Scholarship, for example, has been working towards this goal by awarding scholarships to over 2,000 students who plan to pursue graduate studies in public service. Since the scholarship??s inception in 1977, it has granted over $40 million to Truman Scholars. Yet, there is a limit to the amount of grants that can be given all in all. Harvard has already increased financial aid resources tremendously and most universities are in no position to follow suit. As a result, a system of loans would enable universities...
...process...you sit in on your interview and interviews happen throughout the day and all the applicants are there sitting around and waiting so you get to know people. And then that day they come in and tell you who gets it.” According to the scholarship??s official website, applicants must possess a combination of leadership skills, sound character, as well as academic and athletic success as expressed in the will of the British colonial pioneer and statesman Cecil J. Rhodes.But according to Blattler, applicants don’t necessarily have to be involved...
...only interactions with those involved in the DePaul tenure litigations came in a September e-mail to the former chair of Finkelstein’s department. Dershowitz added that the e-mail—which outlaid what he deemed to be instances of Finkelstein’s flawed scholarship??came in response to a departmental request that he issue them an examination of Finkelstein’s work...
...Which is where Prof. West’s pioneering pedagogical method comes in. “It’s what I call a danceable education or a singing paidea, the Greek word for deep education,” West said. The professor, then, is fully willing to pursue scholarship??just so long as he can sing and dance...