Free Master's Program

This was posted on the Harlem Homes group - thought it might be of interest!

Free Master's Program...In case you know of someone!

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, 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 for anyone who is interested 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 email:

derrick.boone@mba.wfu.edu
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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. 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 res arch 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.