Committee - Scholarships - Graduate
Mission
The Graduate Scholarship Program promotes the FWA’s mission of advancing professionalism and developing future leaders by supporting graduate business education for women at four NYC-metro schools: MBA candidates at Baruch, Columbia, Fordham, and Stern (NYU); and an MIA candidate specializing in Microfinance at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). Scholars are selected by the schools according to the FWA criterion of academic achievement and demonstrated leadership predictive of continued involvement in the FWA.
As of the academic year 2010-2011, the FWA has doubled the awards to $10,000 per scholarship. To increase the pool of potential recipients for the increased awards, the awards are now merit-based, instead of restricted to students applying for financial aid. |
Overview
Oversees the graduate scholarships at five New York City-based MBA programs and in microfinance at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). Promotes the FWA’s presence on campus through the FWA Liaisons, who are alumnae of the schools they cover, and scholars’ membership in the FWA after graduation. Graduate scholarship recipients are selected by the schools.
2010 Scholarship Recipients
Congratulations to our latest graduate scholarship recipients. Read more about our scholarship recipients in FWA Invests in the Future: Introducing the 2010-2011 FWA Graduate Scholars.
Cristina Andrade |
Fordham Graduate School of Business |
Julia Brown |
Columbia University/SIPA |
Marisa Forte |
Stern School of Business, NYU |
Jing (Priscilla) Sheng |
Baruch College Zicklin School of Business |
Maria Testani |
Columbia University |
View highlights from the Graduate Scholars reception hosted by UBS.
Meeting Schedule
Few meetings, because Liaisons work independently, responding to the needs of each school. For committee-wide projects, most meetings are virtual (conference calls and
e-mail).
If interested please contact Susan K. Becker at skbecker@beckerconsultingsvcs.com.
Accomplishments/Highlights
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Continued to support the FWA “pipeline” of potential new members through Committee involvement in campus events. Liaisons recruited FWA members for panels at the three major annual “Women in Business” conferences sponsored by area MBA programs (Columbia Business School, Fordham, and Stern). |
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Expanded outreach to include alumni of scholarship schools, which was a recommendation for this year, by recruiting speakers for a panel organized by the Stern Alumnae Network Council. |
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Broadened the FWA-school relationship beyond student events to include programs offered by the school’s administration. At the request of the Director of Development at SIPA, for the first time provided finance specialists in various fields for a series of Career Panels programmed by SIPA’s Office of Career Services. |
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Assisted FWA programming committees in their activities: Provided information on the Graduate Scholarship at Stern to facilitate recruiting of a Stern professor to a panel programmed by the Government Affairs committee and promoted FWA events addressing student interest in the not-for-profit sector, in microfinance, and in moving from private to public sector employment, at all campuses. |
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Welcomed 2008-2009 scholars to the FWA at a cocktail reception hosted by FWA President Kristin McDonough. Joining in the welcome was the community that has developed around the Graduate Scholarship Program, consisting of former FWA Graduate Scholars and FWA members associated with the Graduate Scholarships. |
Scholarship winners from several cohorts and campuses at the reception dinner held November 2008.
(l-r): Schools currently funded, represented by their 2008-2009 FWA Graduate Scholars, photographed at their Welcome Dinner last fall (left to right): (l. to r.) Isabela Echeverry, MIA candidate, Columbia SIPA; Helen Bord, MBA candidate, Fordham; Laura Guerrini, MBA candidate, Columbia; Nirupama Kulkarni, MBA candidate, Stern NYU; and H. Melis Ibrahimiye, MBA candidate, Baruch CUNY.
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Special Thanks
Special thanks to the FWA members who generously participated in programs at Scholarship schools: Rehana Farrell (Columbia Women in Business); Mary Dupay and Lindsay H. Starr (Fordham Women in Business); Catherine H. Behrend (Stern Women in Business); June Klein and Gretchen Shugart (Stern Alumnae Network panel on Entrepreneurship); Ivy Fredericks, Victoria I. Hartman, Ann Miles, and Andrea Turner (SIPA Office of Career Services series of Career Panels). Special thanks also to the FWA Office staff for facilitating Scholars’ registration for FWA events and for producing hundreds of FWA “Invest in Yourself” marketing pieces that were included in Conference Bags at Columbia, Fordham, and Stern.
Participating Committee Member
Susan K. Becker (Chair),
Jane Bernardini (Liaison to Pace),
Mary Tanaskovic Bitting (Liaison to Stern),
Vivian K. Holzer (Co-Liaison to Columbia),
Ann J. Miles (Liaison to Columbia SIPA),
Allison Reid (Liaison to Fordham)
and Ellen D. Walsh (Co-Liaison to Columbia). |