2/11/2012: My own HS transcript was a bimodal mix of A’s and D’s. So there’s something about the terms of this new scholarship that I really like. From Diane Dietz in the RG:
Their scholarship is set up to help students — one from each high school in Eugene — with middling grade-point averages of 2.5 to 3.5, who wouldn’t have an opportunity for a merit scholarship.
The scholarship is meant to assist during the freshman year. The scholarship will provide from $3,000 to $4,000 that year to each of the nine students, who will be chosen by a committee, based on their commitment to their goals, their overcoming of obstacles, their leadership and contribution and their knowledge and creativity.
“The old belief that scholarships are for the very smartest kids is really erroneous,” Green said. “There’s all kinds of scholarships.”
Dorothy Schultz died at age 95 in January 2011, according to her obituary in The Register-Guard. Her husband, Theodore “Ted” Schultz, died in December 1991.
The couple was married in Westfir near the end of the Great Depression. They owned a grocery store in Vaughn, which is west of Veneta, and she was part owner of the Crosstown Tavern in Eugene.
I think I’d say it a little differently – there are plenty of smart kids that don’t get good grades in HS, but should be in college anyway.
This if fine, but when is the UO Foundation going to recognize and discuss publicly the need for them to remake their operation, with a view to holding down tuition increases, by better supporting the annual UO operating budget?
They put the money through the state – http://www.OregonStudentAid.gov/scholarships.aspx – not through the UO Foundation. And who can blame them. The foundation is now little more that an expensive money laundering operation for the athletic department.
Right, it is not just for UO scholarships, it’s a state program.
My point stands — and I don’t think you would disagree.
Evidently the UO Foundation thinks they know where the money is to be had — they either have to change their minds on their own, or have their minds changed for them.
Many a job for Berdahl? He did a boatload to get Berkeley back on track with academic financing — of course, it all threatens to come undone with the state of California’s financial incompetence.
I completely agree. The example of the UO Foundation board and their “oversight” of the foundation makes me deeply skeptical of the proposals for an independent UO governing board. We could end up with the the worst of OUS and the worst of the foundation.