Post by krazykev on Aug 16, 2007 5:05:32 GMT -5
By Lanita Withers
Staff Writer
GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T's chancellor wants to offer 50 percent, 75 percent and full scholarships to every freshman entering the institution next fall.
"We are aggressively — and I mean to underscore that — examining how we will put together a package next fall for incoming freshmen," Stanley Battle told an audience of faculty and staff members Wednesday during his first Opening Day address.
"Students want to come. They don't have the money," Battle said.
The move is necessary because the battle for the best and the brightest students is intense, he said. "We are in one of the most competitive markets in the United States of America, right here in the state of North Carolina."
Battle said it's not yet clear how much it could cost to fund the scholarships for next year's freshmen.
One of the models for the scholarship initiative is on campus, in the School of Business and Economics, Battle said.
Business education also is competitive, said the school's dean, Quiester Craig . "Our goal was to try to increase the number of talented and high potential students," he said.
"Fortunately or unfortunately, you have to get their attention. You can talk about how great you are. They hear that over and over again from all the deans. To get their real attention — especially the attention of the parents — sometimes you have to supplement a good faculty and a good program and say, 'We're prepared to assist you with your expenses.'"
Of the 1,600 students in the School of Business and Economics, Craig said about a quarter of them have some amount of an academic scholarship. Each year, the school gives out about $250,000 , from a variety of sources, he said.
With the money comes a list of academic expectations of students, Craig said.
"We are committing to them, but we want a commitment from them," he said. "We don't want to throw water down the drain."
Battle also announced a plan to work with 300 to 400 area fourth-graders to help sharpen their skills in reading comprehension, math and computer science.
"We want to push them and pull them," Battle said. "We're going to go into that school with those children, bring them to campus in the summer. Keep pushing them, so they will be prepared and they can enter North Carolina A&T with either 50 percent, three-quarters or a full-ride scholarship."
Entertainer and educator Bill Cosby has agreed to permit the university to use his name on the initiative, Battle said.
Neither the cost of the initiative, still in the planning stages, nor the participating schools have been determined.
Staff Writer
GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T's chancellor wants to offer 50 percent, 75 percent and full scholarships to every freshman entering the institution next fall.
"We are aggressively — and I mean to underscore that — examining how we will put together a package next fall for incoming freshmen," Stanley Battle told an audience of faculty and staff members Wednesday during his first Opening Day address.
"Students want to come. They don't have the money," Battle said.
The move is necessary because the battle for the best and the brightest students is intense, he said. "We are in one of the most competitive markets in the United States of America, right here in the state of North Carolina."
Battle said it's not yet clear how much it could cost to fund the scholarships for next year's freshmen.
One of the models for the scholarship initiative is on campus, in the School of Business and Economics, Battle said.
Business education also is competitive, said the school's dean, Quiester Craig . "Our goal was to try to increase the number of talented and high potential students," he said.
"Fortunately or unfortunately, you have to get their attention. You can talk about how great you are. They hear that over and over again from all the deans. To get their real attention — especially the attention of the parents — sometimes you have to supplement a good faculty and a good program and say, 'We're prepared to assist you with your expenses.'"
Of the 1,600 students in the School of Business and Economics, Craig said about a quarter of them have some amount of an academic scholarship. Each year, the school gives out about $250,000 , from a variety of sources, he said.
With the money comes a list of academic expectations of students, Craig said.
"We are committing to them, but we want a commitment from them," he said. "We don't want to throw water down the drain."
Battle also announced a plan to work with 300 to 400 area fourth-graders to help sharpen their skills in reading comprehension, math and computer science.
"We want to push them and pull them," Battle said. "We're going to go into that school with those children, bring them to campus in the summer. Keep pushing them, so they will be prepared and they can enter North Carolina A&T with either 50 percent, three-quarters or a full-ride scholarship."
Entertainer and educator Bill Cosby has agreed to permit the university to use his name on the initiative, Battle said.
Neither the cost of the initiative, still in the planning stages, nor the participating schools have been determined.
