Word: scholarshipped
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Wisse told the Chronicle of Higher Education last month that it is crucial that the new professor be fluent in scholarship on Jewish culture...
Paras said she founded the NAE because she believes the term "scholarship" has lost its original meaning of rewarding excellence...
Things got downright bitchy when Princeton, in October 1986, launched its Scholars Program, which awarded $1,000 "research" scholarships to top students regardless of need. According to the minutes of a January 1987 Overlap meeting, "everyone agreed that this program has caused much unhappiness at all levels of the administration at other schools." Princeton denied that the program was an end run around the Overlap pact. A Dartmouth official called the denial an act of "sophistry." Yale's president, Benno Schmidt, wrote, "This looks like a blatant merit scholarship to me," prompting Princeton's president, William Bowen, to sniff during...
...proclaimed "education junkie," to the rescue. Riding on the national wave of anxiety about college costs and growing concerns about the state of education, the President has unveiled a $50 billion proposal to make higher education more affordable and to increase enrollment by giving tax breaks, tuition grants and scholarships. The centerpiece of this plan is the Hope Scholarship, modeled after Georgia's successful lottery-funded program, which would give a tax credit of $1,500 to families in each of the first two years their child attends college, earns at least a B average and stays off drugs. Alternatively...
...career I've tried to demonstrate that serious scholarship, a commitment to hands-on teaching, and an involvement in policy making on both the domestic and international level are not incompatible," Schauer said...