Posted on 12/02/2017 2:52:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
Fellowship grants were used to rank students according to their value to the school
Half the students at Stanford University’s elite, $70,000-per-year business school receive fellowship grants. For years, the school has made it clear that the money goes to those who might otherwise be unable to attend, or who might be forced — against school recommendations — to work part-time during the Master of Business Administration program.
”All fellowships are need-based,” says promotional material from the Graduate School of Business. “It’s important to understand that we do not negotiate fellowship amounts or eligibility.”
But now, thanks to a huge breach of students’ personal financial data, the school has been caught cheating — by one of its own.
In February, MBA student Adam Allcock discovered 14 terabytes of confidential student data from financial aid applications, according to a new report. Later that month, Allcock reported the breach to the school’s financial aid director, and the records were removed within an hour, the report said.
However, Allcock had dug deeply into the data, spending 1,500 hours analyzing the information and putting together an 88-page report, according to Poets&Quants, a website covering business school news.
Allcock’s conclusion? The Graduate School of Business had not been honest with students, in fact had been “lying to their faces” for more than a decade.
Rather than being solely need-based, the fellowship grants were used to rank students according to their value to the school, Allcock determined.
The business school had routinely granted fellowship money to students without regard for their financial need, often favoring women and people with a background in finance — even though many had more money saved up than students who received less financial support, Poets&Quants reported.
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He out-sourced it to India using Fellowship funds? The bonus was the report which he kicked in another five bucks?
“often favoring women and people with a background in finance”
Just as with certain preferred ethnic minorities, how can any woman expect to be treated as an equal by white or Asian men when this nonsense goes on? The government that coerces this nonsense is TELLING US THEY AREN’T EQUAL.
Given the perfered are “International students and women”, the excluded group is white men.
It says they were giving women an advantage, and excluding international students. Are international students white men?
The codded term “international students” means racial minorities.
So does “the community.”
Yes.
Yes, but did you read the article. International students were the ones discriminated against foreign students. So, you are saying Stanford is discriminating against racial minorities.
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