The University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School has created a new fellowship program for women applying to its executive MBA (EMBA) program in an effort to increase program diversity, the Financial Times announced this week.
“Our goal is to recruit more talented women,” Sarah Perez, executive director for EMBA programs, told the FT. “As with other schools, the numbers are still very low.”
Kenan-Flagler has collaborated with the Forté Foundation, an organization devoted to increasing the number of women in business, to establish the new fellowship, which will be awarded to women applicants to the EMBA program who exhibit exemplary leadership and achievement.
The fellowship will cover tuition and other support, including leadership development and networking opportunities. Kenan-Flagler will award the first fellowship to an applicant to the weekend MBA class starting January 2012 and is currently in the process of selecting a winner. All female applicants were automatically considered, with no separate application required, according to the FT.
The next round of applications that will qualify for the fellowship will be those submitted in May 2012 for the evening MBA class starting in August 2012. According to the FT report, Kenan-Flagler has been offering fellowships to women in its MBA program for years, but this represents the first time the school has targeted the EMBA market.
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