scholarship

(noun)

Monetary aid given to a student to assist them in paying for an education.

Related Terms

  • low-interest loans
  • tertiary education

Examples of scholarship in the following topics:

  • Staking the Desk: Unequal Funding

    • In 2000, affluent students, students who could otherwise afford to pay for college, received "merit" scholarships worth 82% of the need-based aid received by students with the lowest family incomes.
    • What's more, because colleges want to maintain their rankings in various college ranking systems, colleges favor students with higher standardized test scores and aggressively recruit them using "merit" scholarships.
    • In 2000, affluent students, students who could otherwise afford to pay for college, received "merit" scholarships worth 82% of the need-based aid received by students with the lowest family incomes.
  • Review

    • On average, 5 students from each high school class get full scholarships to 4-year colleges.
    • X = the number of students from a high school class that get full scholarships to 4-year school.
  • The Bottom Line: Family Background

    • News & World Report), colleges favor students with higher standardized test scores and aggressively recruit them using "merit" scholarships.
    • In 2000, affluent students, students who could otherwise afford to pay for college, received "merit" scholarships worth 82% of the need-based aid received by students with the lowest family incomes.
  • Reviewing the Literature

    • In writing the literature review, the purpose is to convey what a researcher has learned through a careful reading of a set of articles, books, and other relevant forms of scholarship related to the research question.
    • It offers an explanation of how the researcher can contribute toward the existing body of scholarship by pursuing their own thesis or research question .
  • Teaching at a Private School

    • At some private schools, students may be able to get a scholarship, which makes the cost cheaper, depending on a talent the student may have, e.g. sport scholarship, art scholarship, academic scholarship, etc.
  • The Passive Voice

    • Traditional scholarship says the wolf-figure is Etruscan, 5th century BC, with figures of Romulus and Remus added in the 15th century AD by Antonio Pollaiuolo.
  • Higher Education

    • The Act increased federal money given to universities, created scholarships and low-interest loans for students, and established a national Teacher Corps to provide teachers to poverty-stricken areas of the United States.
  • Biography - Malcolm Knowles

    • Knowles earned a full scholarship to Harvard University in 1930 where he finished his bachelor's degree in 1934.
  • Introduction to This "Textbook" (for Instructors and Scholars)

    • For more details on the open-source ideology behind this textbook or the process of using it for your own purposes, please read Kris Shaffer's articles in Hybrid Pedagogy: "Open-Source Scholarship" and "Push, Pull, Fork: GitHub for Academics."
    • Scholarship is, by its nature, open source.
    • In his article, " Open-source Scholarship ", Kris Shaffer argues that the open-source software model has lessons to offer the academic community.
  • Evaluating Sources

    • These types of publishers have very different standards on scholarship, with academic publications going through a more rigorous review process.
    • Scholarship develops rapidly, and information that was novel or accurate several decades ago may have become outdated or been proven wrong today.
Subjects
  • Accounting
  • Algebra
  • Art History
  • Biology
  • Business
  • Calculus
  • Chemistry
  • Communications
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Microbiology
  • Physics
  • Physiology
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Statistics
  • U.S. History
  • World History
  • Writing

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