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Fingerhut to honor Choose Ohio First scholars in Dayton
Eric D. Fingerhut, chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, will provide congratulatory remarks on Sunday, Nov. 8, at a reception honoring nearly 600 local scholars of the Choose Ohio First Scholarship Program. The event will be held at 2 p.m. at the Dayton Convention Center.
U.S. Air Force Col. Bradley D. Spacy, commander of the 88th Air Base Wing and Installation at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, will give the keynote address.
The scholars, from the eight institutions that make up the Dayton Regional Collaborative, represent some of Ohio’s most promising students studying in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEM) and STEM education programs, according to the Board of Regents.
“Our future workforce depends on our ability to retain our best and brightest students in Ohio,” Fingerhut said. “This next class of STEM scholars will become the competitive advantage our businesses need in a global marketplace.”
Students chosen to participate in the two-year, $100 million Choose Ohio First Scholarship Program are Ohio residents studying in STEM disciplines, the health care professions or STEM teacher education. Scholarships are awarded in varying amounts, from $1,500 to $4,700 annually, to promising undergraduate and graduate students at Ohio institutions.
Eight area colleges and universities joined together to form the Dayton Regional STEM Collaborative, which was awarded a $3.9 million grant from the Board of Regents for their proposal, “Growing the STEM Pipeline in the Dayton Region — Becoming an International Center of Excellence for Human Effectiveness/Human Performance.”
Wright State University is the lead institution in the Dayton Regional Collaborative. The other schools are Central State University, the University of Dayton, Wittenberg University, and Clark State, Edison, Sinclair and Southern State Community Colleges.
For more information about Choose Ohio First, click here.
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By Chris B
November 16, 2009 7:29 AM | Link to this
I was at this reception. All that it was were the administrators patting each other on the back for managing their staff’s paperwork on the matter. WSU students only got $1500 from this scholarship; Central State got full rides. Maybe if they would have cut out the expensive and pointless reception, the scholarship could have been more sizable. The one positive about the event was the excellent address by Colonel Spacy.