EducationUSA Weekly Update  

No. 67 February 4, 2008

I. Scholarships and Fellowships
- Undergraduate and Graduate: International Student Scholarships and Assistantships, Georgia College&State University
- Graduate: Merit-Based Scholarships, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management
- Professional: New York Film Academy Global Grant Initiative

II. News you can use
- Dartmouth College Makes College More Affordable for Middle-Class Families
- ACA European Policy Seminar: International rankings and indicators, Brussels, April 4, 2008

I. Scholarships and Fellowships

Undergraduate and Graduate: International Student Scholarships and Assistantships
Georgia College & State University

www.gcsu.edu/international
With less than one month left until the application deadline, Georgia College & State University would like to remind educational advisors that GCSU is offering a number of International Student Scholarships and Assistantships.  
International Student Scholarships (ISS)
These scholarships are awarded as either a full out-of-state tuition waiver or a half out-of-state tuition waiver, and are awarded on the basis of demonstrated academic ability, evidence of extra-curricular involvement and financial need. To be considered for the ISS, applicants must have on file a completed application for admission and completed ISS application by the stated deadline. Those international students who have not been awarded an ISS prior to attendance at GCSU can compete once a year for a limited number of available ISSs. Applications for the International Student Scholarship are included in the International Student Undergraduate Application for Admission form.
More information about International Student Scholarships: http://www.gcsu.edu/international/undergraduatefinaid.html
International Application Form: http://www.gcsu.edu/international/howdoiapply.html
Graduate Financial Aid
International Graduate Assistantships (IGA)
These assistantships waive the out-of-state fees, and are awarded to new incoming students on the basis of demonstrated academic ability, evidence of extracurricular involvement and financial need. International Graduate Assistants are required to work 10 hours per week while school is in session. To be considered for the IGA, applicants must have on file a completed application for admission and completed IGA application by the stated deadline. Applications for the International Graduate Assistantship are included in the International Student Graduate Application for Admission form.
More information about Graduate Assistantships: http://www.gcsu.edu/graduate/gradasst/assistantships.html
International Student Graduate Application form: http://www.gcsu.edu/international/howdoiapply.html 

Graduate Assistantships (GA)
Graduate students may apply for regular graduate assistantships through their academic program. Awards can vary by department. Generally graduate assistants are not charged tuition, but must pay fees (including a health insurance fee) of approximately $900 per semester. GAs are required to work between 10 to 20 hours per week and receive a monthly stipend. More information is available at the graduate assistantship page.
Alumni & Foundation Scholarships
Each February currently enrolled students can compete for a limited number of GCSU scholarships. Students can apply through their myCATS account.
Contact
Jason Wynn, International Admissions Counselor
International Education Center, Georgia College & State University
223 Lanier Hall, CBX 49, Milledgeville, GA 31061-0490
Phone: (+1) 478-445-4789, Fax: (+1) 478-445-2623

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Graduate: Merit-Based Scholarships, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management
Nashville, Tennessee, USA

The Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management in Nashville, Tennessee offers two outstanding master’s degree programs of interest to students seeking an advanced degree in the United States – the Vanderbilt MBA and the Vanderbilt Master of Science in Finance. 

Key benefits:

• Vanderbilt University is one of America’s top universities, ranked #18 by U.S. News. To recognize the school’s growing reputation, Newsweek recently selected it one of the “New Ivy League” schools, competing alongside elite schools such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
• The Owen Graduate School of Management ranks #6 among financial services recruiters in the Wall Street Journal rankings, and is ranked a Top 30 business school by Business Week.
• Vanderbilt alumni are making an impact in leading companies across the globe. You’ll find them in leadership positions at Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte and many more.
• Nashville is a vibrant, welcoming city that has recently named the nation’s #1 Smartest Place to Live due to the low cost of living, and #1 friendliest city in America, and the #1 Hottest City for Business Relocation and Expansion for two years straight.
• Vanderbilt is strongly committed to excellence, offering a significant number of merit-based scholarships for students to pursue graduate business education.
• Students will learn from a variety of world-class faculty stars, including a U.S. Congressman, the former chief economist of the Federal Trade Commission, a finance expert whose research led to sweeping reforms at NASDAQ, and more.
• Students can sharpen their global business skills by spending a semester overseas through one of 17 international exchange programs, or spend a week immersed in the culture and business of a nation such as India, Bangladesh or China.

Students in the MBA and MSF programs are from over 30 countries, and students from outside the US make up approximately 30 percent of the total student body.

Further information: www.owen.vanderbilt.edu

Contact
John Roeder
Director of Admissions
E-mail: john.roeder@owen.vanderbilt.edu

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Professional: New York Film Academy Global Grant Initiative

The New York Film Academy is pleased to announce a grant initiative through the Academy's Brett Ratner Grant program. The Academy has allotted 10 needs-based grants of up to US$10,000 each for international students in each of over 150 countries to study in New York City, New York; Los Angeles, California; or Abu Dhabi, UAE. Visit www.NYFA.com.

About the New York Film Academy
The New York Film Academy was founded at Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca Film Center and has grown into a global educational force in filmmaking and acting for film.

The Academy is honored to be the film and acting school of choice of many Hollywood filmmakers and their families including the son of Steven Spielberg; the son of Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins; the son of Kevin Kline; the son of Pierce Brosnan; the daughter of George Romero; and the son of Melanie Griffith. Other former students include the son of F. Murray Abraham; the sister of Luc Besson; the daughter of Peter Bogdanovich and many others.

 

Overview and Philosophy
The most significant art form of our time is the moving image. Through the medium of film, individuals, communities, and nations express their most profound visions of humanity to the world. Film is the literature of the 21st Century. The New York Film Academy has designed its programs on the philosophy of “learning by doing.” In addition, it is our belief that a top-quality education in filmmaking, and acting should be accessible to anyone with the drive, passion and ambition to make films.

Gap Year, One, and Two-Year Conservatory, and MFA Programs
The New York Film Academy offers hands-on, intensive one- and two-year programs in Filmmaking and Acting for Film; and one-year programs in Digital Journalism (in affiliation with NBC News), Documentary Filmmaking, Screenwriting, Producing and Animation. MFA programs are offered at NYFA-Universal Studios in Los Angeles, California. Academy students have the opportunity to apply their studies directly to a Bachelor's degree at several universities in the U.S.

Short-Term and Summer Workshops
Monthly short-term workshops are offered in New York and Los Angeles. Summer programs are offered at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida; in Central London, England; at La Fémis in Paris, France; at Cinecittà in Rome, and in Florence, Italy.

 

Contact
To get information regarding the Brett Ratner grant program at the Academy, or to arrange a tour of the Academy’s facilities, please contact Jack Newman, Director of Outreach and Development, at jnewman@nyfa.edu , or by phone at 212-674-4300.

II. News you can use

Dartmouth College announced that beginning in the fall undergraduates from families with incomes less than $75,000 would receive free tuition

Caleb Kenna for The New York Times
Dartmouth will also replace loans with scholarships and extend need-blind admissions to all international students.
The steps are similar to ones taken recently by Harvard, Yale and other elite colleges and universities to make college more affordable for middle-class families.
“The college has long been committed to helping superbly qualified students attend Dartmouth, regardless of their financial means,” James Wright, Dartmouth’s president, said. “Building on our more than threefold increase in financial aid since 1998, I am pleased that we could make this further enhancement to our financial aid program as we seek to keep Dartmouth affordable and to enroll the most talented students from around the world.”
Dartmouth said the expansion of its financial aid would cost an additional $10 million a year. The money will come from reallocating spending and a bigger annual draw approved last year — 6 percent instead of 4.7 percent — from Dartmouth’s endowment of $3.8 billion.
Mr. Wright said many students who would receive free tuition would also receive scholarships for expenses like room, board and books.
Tuition at Dartmouth this year is $34,965; room, board and mandatory fees add $10,518, for a total of $45,483.
Dartmouth trustees approved the changes at a meeting on Jan. 16.
In its announcement, the college cited census data indicating that 70 percent of households in the United States earned less than $75,000 and that median family income was $46,326. It also said that 13 percent of Dartmouth students were the first members of their families to attend college and that 14 percent received federal Pell grants, which are for students from low-income families.
For citizens or permanent residents of the United States, Mexico and Canada, Dartmouth said it already made admissions decisions need-blind, or without knowing the student or family’s ability to pay. The college commits to meeting all of each admitted student’s demonstrated financial need through a combination of grants and loans.
Effective immediately, Dartmouth will offer scholarships worth just under $3,000 to let students who receive financial aid take advantage of research or internship opportunities in their junior year.
Financial aid costs Dartmouth $61 million a year, up from $24.5 million in 1998.
Dartmouth is in the midst of a fund-raising campaign to add $1.3 billion to the endowment, including $150 million for financial aid. The campaign passed the $1 billion mark last month.
Read article online: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/education/23dartmouth.html
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ACA European Policy Seminar:International rankings and indicators. What they tell us and what they don't.

Registrations have been opened for the second ACA European Policy Seminar in 2008. The seminar is devoted to international rankings and league tables, a theme which forms the object of heated controversies these days. International rankings and indicators. What they tell us and what they don't will take place in Brussels on 4 April 2008. This ACA European Policy Seminar provides an introduction and a constructive critique of international rankings and league tables. It will introduce and explain the major methodologies in use today, such as those of the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) and of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Likewise, it will also introduce new approaches, such as the discipline-specific rankings of the German Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE). The OECD will present its feasibility study for what some call already a 'PISA for Higher Education'. ACA is proud to have won the following high-calibre specialists as presenters at this seminar: Andreas Schleicher (OECD), Gero Federkeil (CHE), Torsten Kälvemark (formerly of HSV), Christian Tauch (European Commission), Tim Rogers (IEC) and Waldemar Siwinski (Perspektywy Foundation).

More details and registration: http://www.aca-secretariat.be/08events/Seminars/Seminars%202008/rankings.htm

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