Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University has set two priorities, according to Nan F. Nixon, director of federal relations, both of which primarily concern graduate students. They are preserving the prestigious Javits fellowship and making federal loan ceilings more flexible for graduate students...
...Javits Fellowship...
...Javits is unique among federal scholarship programs for two reasons. As a portable fellowship, winning students can use the award at any institution they choose, though winners tend to congregate at the most elite institutions, including Harvard...
...fellowship provides $10,051 toward tuition, which universities are required to match with sufficient funds to cover the rest of tuition, which at Harvard is another...
...this period McCartney started Promise Keepers. In the spring of 1990 he and his friend Dave Wardell, an official of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, were preparing to travel from Boulder to Pueblo when McCartney was struck by a vision of stadiums filled with men willing to become deeply committed Christians. "He jumped in the car and said, 'Let's pray,'" says Wardell. "We prayed for three and a half hours. This guy is strong. He's stronger than bear's breath...