Student Services
The EWCA provides a variety of services and support for EWC students, including scholarships, recruiting, mentoring, networking, and travel grants.
Scholarships Through its alumni fundraising efforts, the EWCA provides scholarships to qualified students who could not otherwise afford to participate in the Center's student program.
Schoarlship recepients for 2004:
Uddhav Bhandari, Nepal
Enkhtsetseq Davra, Mongolia
Kuyseek Hwang, Korea
Subir Kole, India
Atsushi Ouchi, United States
Fu Shi, China
Recruiting Individual alumni as well as chapters support the East-West Center's efforts to involve well-qualified students in its programs by helping to identify students, encouraging students to apply, spreading the word about the Center to potential students, and organizing predeparture send-offs for new students preparing to go to the Center.
Mentoring Alumni volunteers to serve as professional mentors to current EWC students. These alumni provide opportunities for students to find out more about various professions to assist students in determining their future career objectives.
This program is strictly on a voluntary basis. The EWC Associates and EWC Friends Offices interview students to determine a student’s specific area of interest. Then, a matching committee composed of local alumni volunteers search for the best match between the student and the mentor. Once a match is made, the mentoring is done over the course of one semester.
Many successful matches have been made and the ties established between mentors and students remain with them even after students return to their home country.
Networking Alumni volunteers throughout the region help traveling students by providing local hospitality, introducing them to professional organizations, welcoming them to local EWCA chapters, providing them with advice to assist them in adjusting to new locations, and helping them locate internships.
Travel Grants The EWCA provides travel grants for students to make presentations at professional conferences, to accept internships away from the Center, and to carry out field research required to complete their degree requirements.
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