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5 ADMINISTRATIVE ELEMENTS
Pages 49-58

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From page 49...
... A National Scholars Award is intended to recognize merit and will send a signal that the program applauds the student's academic accomplishments. Entry into the National Scholars Program is an honor, and all students, irrespective of their family's financial circumstance, should distinguished by a merit scholarship.
From page 50...
... In addition, needy students should receive an additional grant based on financial need and intended to fill in the gap between parental support and grant aid Tom all sources, including the National Scholars Merit Award, on the one hand, and the cost of attendance (tuition and fees, books and supplies, transportation, miscellaneous personal expenses, and room and board) , on the other hand, so that National Scholars are not required to borrow or to work in non-science jobs that would take time away from their academic program.
From page 51...
... Those resources include the expected family contribution, the Pell Grant (if eligible) , the National Scholars merit award, and other grant aid, including any institutional money the student receives.
From page 52...
... The National Scholars award should not be used to reduce the amount of institutional grant aid a student receives, and the National Scholars Program would stipulate that the award grant is a last dollar grant and should not be taken into consideration in determining institutional grant aid. We believe institutions will likely agree to this provision in order to permit their participation in the National Scholars Program.
From page 53...
... would determine the appropriate financial aid package. It is difficult to estimate the National Scholars Program scholarship funds that will be neecled for new scholars in a consortium since scholars will come from different financial circumstances.
From page 54...
... The Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellowships offered a student stipend of $14,500 plus a $14,000 cost of education allowance. An alternative approach is for the institution to set a level comparable to prevailing stipends for its departmental research or teaching assistants or for graduate fellowships in the pertinent departments.
From page 55...
... This will be particularly acute for the National Scholars Program because participants will enter as college freshmen and, several years later, attain a Ph.D. For example' an NRC study of 1979~ 98 ~ recipients of National Science Foundation Minority Graduate Fellowships exatriined the characteristics of applicants and awardees of the program and their graduate education experiences, analyzing information on educational progress through 1988 from pertinent data that were available in 1989 (NRC 1995a?
From page 56...
... Program" found that guidelines for implementing training programs supported through MARC required each program to track the educational progress of its trainees. They did not, however, specifier what data should be collected and because each of the 60 undergraduate programs collected data in individual formats, it was necessary to survey past trainees in order to obtain pertinent information about the outcomes of the program.
From page 57...
... Although there exists no other program exactly like the National Scholars Program, there are several which have similar purposes and similar program elements. Private programs like the Meyerhoff Program and the National Physical Sciences Consortium, as wed as undergraduate and graduate programs at NSF, NTH, and other federal agencies, can all shed light on what works and doesn't work.


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