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Rockville - Redfin's Free Home Buying Class
Thursday, September 19, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)
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2009 WITI Hall of Fame Award-Winners Announced
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WITI just announced the four women who will be inducted into the the WITI (Women in Technology International) Hall of Fame this June:
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- Dr. Sharon Nunes, Vice President Big Green Innovations, IBM Corporation
- Dr. Carolyn Turbyfil, a Founding Member of WITI
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|Sep 8, 2012
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|Aug 28, 2011
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|Need to extract e-mail addresses from raw data I will provide and put the addresses into excell approx 650 pages of raw data, guessing about 4000 e-mail address
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|Oct 2, 2012
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|I need to get the names and addresses of about 1000 people who I have email addresses for. I don't know if there is a way to even cross reference this.? But if it can be done, to where it's possible to get at least 90% of their names and addresses (if less, let me know), I'd like to have it done. ## Deliverables I'll need the name, address, and zip code in an Excel file...
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|I need a list of vendors in Excel format. Details: On theknot.com, under local resources, I need
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|...possibility to subscribe up to three mailing list. Each mailing list will be described as for the contents...will check a box to select a wanted mailing list. The mailing list owner requires a complete administration...administration system. I am not asking to write a mailing list system. The web is full of ready-made pro...
|May 7, 2006
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|Web Security, Data Processing, Desktop Support, Active Directory, C++ Programming
|Aug 22, 2010
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|Creation of a simple mailing list script that sends an email with the following requiremnts. ## Deliverables...---- Each list should have the following properties: longname - Full name of list shortname...shortname - a single word name of list listfrom - 11characters max apikey adminname - name of listowner
|PHP, Engineering, CSS, Software Architecture, Software Testing, MySQL, Amazon Web Services
|Oct 4, 2007
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|Internet Marketing, Research
|Nov 25, 2010
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|Email Marketing, Mailchimp
|Feb 11, 2015
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|Jan 31, 2010
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|Looking for trustful company to provide mailing services. We have 4 websites with around 450'000 of registered
|Bulk Marketing
|Nov 24, 2011
|Nov 24, 2011Ended
|The first job I need done is a mailing list program that also I can send things out with. My total budget
|May 13, 2008
|May 13, 2008Ended
|Hello, I need a really good Mailing List for my website i dont care what software , but when i send mail...Bulk mail so please help me out with a good Mailing List
|PHP, Script Install
|Mar 27, 2006
|Mar 27, 2006Ended
|...addresses entered into excel to be used as a mailing list. The addresses are currently in a scanned PDF
|Data Entry, Excel
|Oct 27, 2011
|Oct 27, 2011Ended
|...a large mass mailing. I am looking to create a database (excel file) of physical mailing addresses in
|Data Entry, Research, Web Scraping
|Jan 1, 2011
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|need a list copied in to a 3 across 10 down label format about 400 addresses
|Virtual Assistant
|Jan 29, 2008
|Jan 29, 2008Ended
|Menu Driven Load mailing label entries from user specified file. Keyboard input of mailing label entries...This is what the main screen should look like. Mailing List Command Menu _______________________________________________
|PHP, C Programming, Engineering, C# Programming, Software Architecture, Software Testing, MySQL
|Dec 1, 2002
|Dec 1, 2002Ended
|I am looking to obtain a list of Foreclosure specialists and Real Estate Investors in the continental...Investors Associations - but i do want their members list, sometimes they are listed on the website. If you
|PHP, Engineering, Sales, SQL, Marketing, Software Architecture, Software Testing, Website Testing, MySQL, Website Management, Database Administration, Web Hosting
|Oct 29, 2007
|Oct 29, 2007Ended
|this is very simple -- all we need is a mailing list mechanism. although this is simple, if the work...be a mailing list administration page created whereby someone can: 1. view the members of the list 2. send...send an email out to everyone on the list The email should address the subscriber by name/company name
|PHP, Engineering, Software Architecture, Software Testing, MySQL
|Apr 10, 2006
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|I need to gather a mailing list of all active attorney's registered with the Nevada State Bar Association...Association. I need the list in both Excel and as ready for print Avery mailing labels.
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|Sep 23, 2009
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|...have created mailing labels in Microsoft Word using the Avery Label format. The mailing labels are saved... I want to use the US Postal Service NetPost Mailing Online service offered by PosteDigital. I want
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|Sep 20, 2006
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|Oct 1, 2009
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|...a old mailing ( 11,000 names) list in a DOS based flormat. I need either a newer type of mailing list...codes work in both cases on the keyboard. The mailing list was put in access but the first and last name...convert a mailing label software program that they can imput the access bata base for mailing using high
|PHP, Windows Desktop, Data Entry, Engineering, Excel, Powerpoint, Software Architecture, Microsoft Access, Software Testing, Word, Website Testing, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft, MySQL, Website Management, Web Hosting
|Apr 23, 2003
|Apr 23, 2003Ended
|We have real estate portals and a mailing list of around 100.000 emails of real estate agents worlwide...worlwide. We want to send a mailing to promote our services but we are having troubles to find a mail...of sending the emails. We give you the mailing list and the newsletters and you use your mail servers
|Sales, Marketing
|Nov 19, 2008
|Nov 19, 2008Ended
|Part-time (work from the comfort of your own home) mailing list developer personnel required on urgent bases...accuracy of the deliverable data) A list of one thousand mailing contacts from two directories (500 from...file will be e-mailed to start developing the mailing list once the directories received by the worker
|Data Entry
|Jul 6, 2010
|Jul 6, 2010Ended
|Hello. I have a Joomla Website: www.globarent.com I have already hundreds of e mails, and i want to have a Newsletter subscription on my website. What i want to do: 1) Be able to mass mail an advertisement to all property owners. I will add their e mails manually, and send them the ad. 2) Send newsletters to all who subscribe to the newsletter. I want them being able ...
|PHP, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Software Architecture, Software Testing, Website Testing, MySQL, Website Management, Web Hosting
|Jun 13, 2006
|Jun 13, 2006Ended
|...addresses in it. I need someone to convert this list into a format that printers can use to extract the
|PHP, Windows Desktop, Linux, Data Entry, Engineering, Excel, Powerpoint, Software Architecture, Microsoft Access, Mac OS, Software Testing, Word, Website Testing, Microsoft Exchange, Chrome OS, MySQL, UNIX, Website Management, Web Hosting
|Apr 16, 2007
|Apr 16, 2007Ended
|I am a professional opera singer and something that I can put on my website and perhaps my myspace music page aswell, that will allow me to collect contact information for potential fans. what I basically see is several empty boxes like first name, last name, email, street, state, zip, etc etc etc then would like it to be sent to me in an email, or even better as a vcard or someway that i could ea...
|XML, Sales, Google Adwords, SQL, Marketing, Software Architecture, Mac OS, Software Testing, Website Testing, MySQL, Amazon Web Services, Website Management, Database Administration, Web Hosting
|Dec 31, 2007
|Dec 31, 2007Ended
|Need your support in creating a mailing list for newsletters which is focused on different markets, topics
|Internet Marketing, Sales, Bulk Marketing
|Jul 24, 2010
|Jul 24, 2010Ended
|To set up promotions and content which we supply to mail with mail chimp from our data base of customers
|Internet Marketing, Data Entry, Excel, Web Scraping, Email Marketing
|Sep 23, 2014
|Sep 23, 2014Ended
|...advertising/marketing field, and am in need of 1 list of email adresses to send 1 email to, promoting...can't pay too much for this list but if anyone can send a "large" list os email adresses for businesses...individuals, I will pay a fee for their time. This list is required for sending 1 email to only, and should
|Website Design, Internet Marketing, Windows Desktop, Data Processing, Link Building
|Oct 22, 2005
|Oct 22, 2005Ended
|Create a mailing list from 1000 European doctors only specialists in Gynecologist & Obstetrician.
|Internet Marketing, Bulk Marketing, Anything Goes, Email Marketing
|Apr 24, 2013
|Apr 24, 2013Ended
|Need to extract e-mail addresses from raw data I will provide and put the addresses into excell approx 650 pages of raw data, guessing about 4000 e-mail address
|Data Entry, Excel
|Sep 26, 2012
|Sep 26, 2012Ended
|mailing list
|Adobe Flash
|Nov 15, 2008
|Nov 15, 2008Ended
|...pre-defined mailing list for us. All selected targets need to meet the given criteria. The mailing list needs...incoming articles - must write in English The mailing list needs to include all fields as pre-defined in...awarded, we will check the list on accuracy and real persons, so no fake list. Payment will be done
|Research, Marketing
|Aug 18, 2009
|Aug 18, 2009Ended
|I need someone who can INSTALL AND TEST this app: http://www.webwizguide.info/asp/sample_scripts/mailing_list_script.asp Access 2000 Shared Hosting Service ## Deliverables 1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done. 2) Installation package that will install the software (in ready-to-run condition) on...
|PHP, ASP, Visual Basic, Windows Desktop, Engineering, Training, Software Architecture, Microsoft Access, Software Testing, Website Testing, Microsoft, MySQL, Website Management, Web Hosting
|Dec 12, 2003
|Dec 12, 2003Ended
|I need an opt-in mailing list. This should be code that can be updated and run without crontabs. It should
|PHP, Translation, Windows Desktop, Engineering, SQL, Software Architecture, Software Testing, Website Testing, Microsoft, MySQL, Amazon Web Services, Website Management, Database Administration, Web Hosting
|Dec 12, 2002
|Dec 12, 2002Ended
|I want to be able to import many csv files and be able to sort the data and be able to export the searched data. I have attached a sample csv file. It should upload the address (Column C) and group and be able to tell me how many times and the dates per location.
|Windows Desktop, Delphi, Project Management, Engineering, Software Architecture, Microsoft Access, Software Testing, Microsoft
|Feb 19, 2011
|Feb 19, 2011Ended
|I need a database of all franchised motor dealers in Australia and New Zealand. This means all dealers that represent a new car franchise (ie Ford, Holden, Hyundai, Toyota etc). The data could be obtained from White Pages, Yellow Pages, Franchise sites (ie hyundai.com.au) etc. I have attached a file which shows the required information. Perhaps there is some way this can be "scraped" fro...
|Data Entry, Excel
|Dec 20, 2011
|Dec 20, 2011Ended
|...enter the information into Microsoft Outlook for mailing lists, emailing lists, and calling lists. Deliverables
|Data Entry
|Jan 27, 2005
|Jan 27, 2005Ended
|...marketing and seo who will help me in building mailng list. I am only looking for results and will pay per
|Internet Marketing, SEO, Advertising, Leads
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|Hello, I am looking for a mailing list to buy. The criteria are as follows. Recepients must be
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|My website needs a mailing list. My idea is that the user types in their email on my site (flash)
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|Apr 5, 2007
|Apr 5, 2007Ended
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|Jan 22, 2007
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|Aug 5, 2009
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|I want a program so I can run mailing lists easily. My host has 'mailman' or something similar but can...get it to work and limited to number of email per list and number of lists. I run a couple of websites...these people double optin and then be added to the list, be able to send text and html messages, be able
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The ANU needs to restructure the nature and distribution of its scholarships and accommodation bursaries to address the needs of groups perceived to be disadvantaged and to respond to the changing patterns and needs of student learning. Responsibility for the management of all aspects of undergraduate and Honours scholarships should be clarified. List of recommendations: 1. The ANU National Undergraduate Scholarship Scheme and ANU Honours Scholarships should be maintained in their current form, with current levels of support. 2. The additional "matched-funds" Honours scholarships provided in 2002 should remain at current levels until the end of 2003. The success of the initiative should be evaluated once 2002 honours results and 2003 postgraduate research-degree enrolments are known. 3. The University should consider the feasibility of offering a National Achievement Scholarship, or a guaranteed place and travel grant, to the highest-achieving Year 12 student in each eligible school in Australia. 4. Additional scholarships should be made available for international students. These should be provided in disciplines in which the ANU has a strategic international profile. 5. Faculty Deans, and School/Department/Centre Heads, should be entrusted with ensuring that area-based scholarships are promoted, awarded and managed in the strategic interests of the University. 6. The University should review its research-training pathways so as to enable students on research-intensive undergraduate degrees to access research-training scholarships earlier in their academic careers. 7. The ANU should revise its provision of scholarships, awards and bursaries to reflect the changing needs of students, in particular those from groups which could be seen as disadvantaged. 8. An award of small value should be offered to students who volunteer as mentors. 1 Undergraduate and Honours Scholarships Review Report 1202/2002 9. The material nature of existing scholarships should be made more flexible to respond to changing patterns of student learning. 10. The DVC (Education) should review coordination mechanisms for the development, award, management and promotion of undergraduate and Honours scholarships, in particular to achieve better coordination with postgraduate scholarships. 2. Background In May 2002 the Education Committee initiated this review of scholarships with three terms of reference. These were to: 1. Review current ANU policy, provision and allocation procedures for scholarships for: • Graduate research/coursework programs • Honours programs • Undergraduate programs 2. Relate these to the University's strategic goals, academic directions, quality guidelines and enrolment targets. 3. Review the promotion/advertising of ANU scholarships in relation to our academic marketing and demographic projections. Three sub-committees were established, to examine the scholarship provision in the three areas outlined in Term of Reference 1. The review received a number of submissions from staff and students of the University. These are listed in the Appendix. The sub-committees met with several of the key areas of the ANU responsible for the administration and management of scholarships. In addition, data was provided concerning numbers of scholarships, the academic record of scholarship holders, and more general data regarding recruitment to the ANU in general. In the course of the review, it became apparent that the issues relevant to Honours and undergraduate scholarships were closely aligned. It was therefore deemed sensible to draw together these two areas and suggest a single set of revisions and new initiatives. 3. Membership of the Sub-Committees Membership of the Undergraduate Sub-Committee was: Professor Malcolm Gillies, Deputy-Vice Chancellor (Education), Chair Professor Tim Brown, Dean, Faculty of Science Mr Selwyn Cornish, Dean of Students Dr Patrick Guinness, Sub-Dean, Faculty of Arts Dr Jonathan Powles, NITA1 Dr Peta Spender, Faculty of Law Mr Andrew Thompson, student 1 In July 2002, Dr Powles was seconded to the office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), from where he continued to assist the work of the review as a member of the secretariat. 2 Undergraduate and Honours Scholarships Review Report 1202/2002 Membership of the Honours Sub-Committee was: Professor Malcolm Gillies, Deputy-Vice Chancellor (Education), Chair Professor John Hearn, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Mr Selwyn Cornish, Dean of Students Professor Mark Harrison, Director, RSES Dr John Hooper, Dean, Graduate School Ms Heather Nash, Deputy Executive Officer, Faculty of Arts Dr Ian Proudfoot, Asian Studies Mr Chris Reid, Executive Officer to the DVC (Education), was secretary to both sub-committees. 4. Scholarships and the strategic goals of the University. Preparing Ourselves states that the primary educational objective of the ANU is "to become the university of educational choice for the top students locally, nationally and internationally by offering a unique range of research-led degree programs." This statement usefully articulates the dimensions in which undergraduate and Honours scholarships can assist the university in achieving this strategic goal. "The top students": the importance of merit in the selection of scholars. Almost without exception, submissions to the review presupposed that the primary purpose of scholarships was to attract the best students to the University. Certainly, the substantial provision of a range of scholarships awarded purely on academic merit was seen to be entirely consistent with the mission of the ANU. The review committees considered at length whether or not our current scholarship provision was achieving this aim to the greatest extent possible. Were the nation's best students in fact coming to study here? Statistics presented to the committees demonstrated that, in the main, scholarship recipients at undergraduate level were consistent in the high quality of their academic performance. For instance, of the 29 recipients of ANU National Undergraduate Scholarships in 1997, 21 have received a first-class Honours degree, eight have yet to complete a component of a combined degree, and only three completed their studies with less than first-class Honours. Eleven received university medals.2 Data concerning Honours scholarships is harder to evaluate, given the explicit aims of these scholarships not only to attract the best students, but also to encourage students to transfer to Honours at the ANU from pass degrees at other institutions, and to retain these students in research degrees. In 2002, 85 Honours scholarships were awarded, including 30 centrally-funded scholarships and 55 funded jointly by the University and local areas as part of the new initiative to increase research-degree recruitment. 2 Data provided to the review by Andrea Firth, Prizes and Undergraduate Scholarships Office, SASS. Figures given for results do not total 29, owing to the fact that many scholarship holders pursued combined degrees. 3 Undergraduate and Honours Scholarships Review Report 1202/2002 The breakdown by discipline of the 85 Honours scholarships was as follows: Arts 14 Asian Studies 7 Economics and Commerce 8 Engineering and IT 9 Law 6 Science 35 Creative Arts 6 The large number of science scholarships reflects the fact that 19 of the new "matched funds" scholarships came from the IAS. Encouragingly, 27 of these 85 students transferred from other institutions. Even more encouragingly, they came from all over the country, and from New Zealand, the USA and Canada. None came from Sydney universities. However, the total number of scholarship applications from new students coming to the ANU to complete an Honours year was 48. 27 of these (58%) were awarded scholarships, as opposed to 33% of continuing ANU students. This raises the question as to whether we might already be hitting the maximum numbers who might be prepared and qualified to transfer in this way. It remains to be seen how many continue to research degrees at the ANU.3 The amount of central funds made available to be matched by local areas in the 2002 Honours scholarship initiative seems to be about right. Local areas, by and large, seemed able to find matching funding without great difficulty. The ratio between internal and external applicants for these additional places (around 2:1) remained broadly comparable with that for existing ANU Honours Scholarships. Further evaluation of the success of this initiative needs to take place after these students' results, and their take-up of research places, are known. The ANU's provision of scholarships based purely on academic merit is slightly more substantial than that of other comparable universities, in terms of both number and value of the awards.4 This seems appropriate, as the ANU needs to provide more incentive than the Group of Eight metropolitan universities to overcome the demographic and geographic obstacles to student mobility. In summary, the ANU National Undergraduate Scholarship Scheme and the ANU Honours Scholarships seem to support, in their current form, the strategic objective of attracting the very best students to study at the ANU. Recommendation 1: The ANU National Undergraduate Scholarship Scheme and ANU Honours Scholarships should be maintained in their current form, with current levels of support. Recommendation 2: The additional "matched-funds" Honours scholarships provided in 2002 should remain at current levels until the end of 2003. The success of the initiative 3 From submission 4, Andrea Firth, Prizes and Undergraduate Scholarships Office, SASS 4 Submission 1, Jonathan Powles, NITA 4 Undergraduate and Honours Scholarships Review Report 1202/2002 should be evaluated once 2002 honours results and 2003 postgraduate research-degree enrolments are known. "Locally, Nationally and Internationally": scholarships and the roles of the ANU The committee considered whether or not the ANU is sufficiently strategic in targeting interstate recruitment through its scholarship provision. For instance, the University of Melbourne offers more scholarships, of twice the value, to interstate students than it does to Victorian students. However, it is also important that the ANU recruits as many of the best ACT students as possible. There is evidence to suggest that many of these students were being attracted to study at other universities through scholarship offers.5 The ANU needs to remain competitive in the local market. It would therefore be inadvisable to take any steps that would reduce the number or value of scholarships available to ACT students. Nevertheless, the ANU is seeking to make genuine its role as Australia's National University in the area of undergraduate education. To do this, it needs substantially to increase enrolments by students from beyond the ACT and local NSW (including Sydney). In 2002, new undergraduate students came from the following areas: ACT 1653 Wagga – Wentworth 76 Queanbeyan 102 Wollongong 17 Braidwood – Snowy River 31 Lithgow – Gilgandra 59 Nowra – Bega 32 NT 13 Goulburn – Young 44 QLD 34 Gundagai – Tumbarumba 10 SA 15 Bankstown – Sutherland 10 Tasmania 20 Blacktown – Hawkesbury 34 Victoria 120 Drummoyne – Prospect 12 WA 16 Fairfield – Camden 8 Overseas 404 Gosford – Wyong 10 Other 10 Mittagong – Moss Vale 7 Newcastle – Scone 17 Total 2890 North Sydney – Palm Beach 66 Nyngan – Broken Hill 3 Sydney City – La Perouse 28 Taree – Moree 39 A summary of student origins by state is provided in Fig. 1. Scholarships may play only a small role in determining the national profile, and hence recruitment, at the level of undergraduate education. Currently, the ANU National Undergraduate Scholarship Scheme reserves some places for students from each state. However, this is on too small a scale to substantially impact on nationwide recruitment. To expand and modify the scheme in a way that significantly discriminates in favour of more distant students would diminish the status of the NUS as an award based on absolute academic merit. Perhaps another approach is needed to articulate the ANU's national role through the provision of scholarships. In Western Australia, the UWA cements its position as the destination of first 5 Specific cases reported to the Committee by University officers. 5 Undergraduate and Honours Scholarships Review Report 1202/2002 choice for many Western Australian school-leavers by guaranteeing a place to one high-achieving student at every high school in the state, even before Year 12 results are determined. If it proved financially feasible, the ANU might consider a similar scheme on a national level, offering to the highest-achieving student in every Year 12 school or college in Australia a place at the ANU, supported by a modest scholarship (perhaps half that awarded to ANU National Fig. 1: Australian student origins 9% 6% 9% ACT 5% Local NSW 4% Sydney Region Other NSW Victoria Other states 67% Undergraduate Scholars). The existing "National Achievement Scholarship", worth $5,000 p.a. in total, seems a title that might most appropriately reflect this award for excellence relative to opportunity. Such a revamped "National Achievement Scholarships" scheme would certainly strengthen our claim to be the genuine national university. Such students are achieving maximally in relation to local opportunity. Research would support the assumption that such students are highly likely to achieve in an upper Honours band over their undergraduate program(s). As such, there would be a high likelihood of them progressing to postgraduate study. The scheme would not be as expensive as might first seem to be the case. There are around 2,500 Year 12 providers in the country, of which only around 1000 have sufficient students and Year 12 course offerings to make such a scholarship genuinely competitive.6 Only a small number of students would in fact take up the offer – probably overall less than 10%, given that by definition many of these students would have their pick of universities, and be in the running for the existing scholarships they offer. This would probably vary according to distance, according to the following approximate analysis: 6 Precise criteria would be needed to define eligible schools, and to identify "the highest-achieving student" where, for instance, several students share the highest UAI. 6 Undergraduate and Honours Scholarships Review Report 1202/2002 Location Number of Eligible schools* Takeup rate* Number of schools scholars ACT 47 18 30-50% 6-9 Local NSW 104 47 15-25% 7-12 Sydney 497 150 8-12% 12-15 Other NSW 256 100 5-10% 5-10 Victoria 567 225 4-8% 9-18 Other states 1009 400 3-5% 12-20 Totals 2480 940 5-10% 51-84 The scheme would require an investment in publicity for it to function effectively. In particular, the individual schools would need to be encouraged to advise their best students to place the ANU at the top of their preferences so as to be eligible for the scholarship. Based on these take-up rates, a $5000 award per student, and administration and publicity costs, the scheme would cost $250,000 - $400,000 in the first year. This would rise to a maximum of $1.1 million after four years, taking into account attrition and some reduction in numbers owing to competition from other universities. The cost of the scheme could also be somewhat reduced by offering the students incentives other than cash (see recommendation 9). However, there would be considerable benefits to the ANU's program of national recruitment. Embedding the process of selection at the level of the individual school would raise awareness within schools of the ANU as a university destination in general, and of our specific degree offerings. It is likely that scholarships awarded on this basis would function as an aid to recruitment more effectively than those awarded purely on the basis of the UAI. Of course, the student would have to have achieved the UAI required for entry into the course of his or her choice, and the University might require a minimum UAI of, say, 90 for the Scholarship to be awarded. Likewise, the student would have to have applied for a place at the ANU before an offer could be made, therefore considerable publicity and liaison with schools will be necessary to ensure the scheme succeeds administratively. An alternative, less costly proposal, is to make an offer of a guaranteed place in an Honours program and a suitable travel grant to each top-achieving Year 12 student. Recommendation 3: The University should consider the feasibility of offering a National Achievement Scholarship, or a guaranteed place and travel grant, to the highest-achieving Year 12 student in each eligible school in Australia. The ANU lags behind some comparable universities in its provision of scholarships to international students. Both the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne offer 50 or more scholarships to the most talented international students, consisting of a percentage reduction in fees payable. The ANU offers international students five full fee waivers, and around ten locally funded scholarships of varying value. * Broad estimates only 7 Undergraduate and Honours Scholarships Review Report 1202/2002 Submissions to the review from several research schools identified the need for more central funding of scholarships for international students.7 At first sight, the provision of scholarships to international students on even a moderate scale would seem to reduce the value of international student fees as a source of revenue. However, the importance of these students, once they are graduates, as ambassadors for the University in their home countries cannot be overestimated. The ANU needs to increase its international profile, and an important means to achieve this is to ensure that its international graduates are in positions of influence. To achieve this, we need not simply to recruit international students, but to recruit the best international students. As representatives of the University, ANU's international graduates should reflect our strengths. Scholarships for international students should be targeted towards areas in which we can capitalise on the University's international reputation. While recruitment in general must respond to student demand, the disciplines in which we offer scholarships should be those in which the ANU has demonstrated excellence.8 In this way, the best students will be brought together with the best educational provision. Recommendation 4: Additional scholarships should be made available for international students. These should be provided in disciplines in which the ANU has a strategic international profile. 5. Scholarships and the academic directions of the University. One function of scholarships might be to pinpoint and publicise those of the ANU's courses which are excellent, distinctive, or crucial to our identity and strategic direction. For instance, in their submission to the review, the Faculty of Asian Studies recommended that the University support its "ANU Asia Undergraduate Scholarships" proposal. Amongst other benefits, this would seek to publicise nationally programs at the ANU (in this case, certain Asian languages) that are not widely available elsewhere in Australia.9 Should this principle of discipline-targeted scholarships be addressed across the university? "A unique range of degree programs": distinctive and specialised scholarships The ANU already has a very large number of scholarships and other awards offered in specific disciplines, usually funded by endowments or bequests, often matched by central funds. These have developed over time, and among other things represent a marvellous testimony to the ANU's relations with its alumni, industry, and other individuals and groups in the national community. These scholarships, bursaries and prizes are usually awarded at the level of the local area in which they were created. 7 Submission 3, John Curtin School of Medical Research, and submission 5, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. 8 Obviously, the specific identification of these areas of excellence falls outside the remit of this Review. 9 Submission 10, Faculty of Asian Studies. 8 Undergraduate and Honours Scholarships Review Report 1202/2002 The administration of these scholarships is largely a matter of cooperation between local areas and the Prizes and Undergraduate Scholarships Office. In many ways, it is entirely appropriate that these scholarships are partly managed and awarded at departmental, faculty, school or centre level. Usually, these places are where the disciplinary expertise is located to evaluate the academic merit, and value to the university, of the applicants and the award. Publicity is inexpensive and easily managed (on a small scale) at local level. On the other hand, there are clearly some problems with this approach, in terms of both procedure and strategic benefit. One submission to the review identifies the confusion or reluctance of some schools/faculties/academic areas to take on the stewardship of scholarships in their disciplines. The major failing is not making an award at all, usually because the area concerned had either forgotten or was not certain if it was up to them to take the initiative.10 Local areas often lack the resources to publicise the award at national level, both to attract applicants, and to celebrate their success. Management at local level prevents a strategic approach, targeting the awards (even within discipline boundaries) towards those specific areas that it is in the interests of the University to promote. Local oversight also creates the tendency for the award to be made to that budget-area's own applicants or existing students. This does not maximise the potential for new recruitment, or even acknowledge that specific disciplinary expertise is in many cases spread widely across the University's many budget areas. One possible compromise between central and local management that may, in the long run, prove effective is for the National Institutes to manage undergraduate and Honours scholarships. Such a development would parallel a similar approach that could be taken with postgraduate research scholarships. However, the National Institutes currently lack the staff for detailed administration of this sort, and may simply exacerbate the current problems with administration at local levels by imposing another level of management. The simplest current solution is to ensure that Deans of Faculties, and heads of other university areas that award scholarships, are explicitly entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring that local scholarships are fully utilised for publicity, promotion and recruitment purposes. Discipline- specific scholarships should be augmented by local and central funds, on a case-by-case basis, where this is in the strategic interests of the university. In particular, the development of new scholarships should be aligned with the university's educational goals, and Deans should ensure that this is the case. Recommendation 5: Faculty Deans, and School/Department/Centre Heads, should be entrusted with ensuring that area-based scholarships are promoted, awarded and managed in the strategic interests of the University. "Research-led degree programs": scholarships and research pathways. One of the explicit educational aims of the ANU is to integrate genuine research activity with the undergraduate curriculum. This is done in many ways, most obviously in the insistence that all academic teaching staff at the ANU are active researchers. The inquiry-learning initiative seeks 10 Submission 6, confidential. This submission was not from an individual, but from an area of the university well placed to make such an evaluation. 9 Undergraduate and Honours Scholarships Review Report 1202/2002 to embed research processes and methods across the curriculum as a whole. Most recently, the PhB degree has been introduced to fast track the research development of the most able undergraduates, in the first instance in science. How can scholarships assist in enabling high- achieving students quickly access research training? Several submissions to the review identify increased support for Honours scholarships as an important answer to this question.11 On the other hand, some argue that Honours scholarships are an important recognition of undergraduate excellence, and regret the easy equation of Honours with research training.12 This dissonance reflects the different conceptions and models of Honours across the University. Regardless, the simple increase in the number or size of Honours scholarships may well better support students on their path to research training, but it would not allow them to encounter research training more quickly. A possible means of achieving this aim through scholarships is too radical to fall within the remit of this review, as it would involve a major reconsideration of the ANU's policy on student progression. The PhB already provides a model, as PhB students are able to overload their mix of coursework and independent research, and accelerate their progression so as to graduate with Honours after three or three-and-a-half years. Other possible structures exist that might allow the best undergraduate students to progress to a research-training degree, such as a one- or one-and-a-half year M.Phil, after three years of undergraduate study. As with "fast-track" PhB students, such students would be eligible for APAs and other research-training scholarships from their fourth, rather than fifth, year of tertiary education. Such arrangements would need to comply with DEST guidelines on eligibility for RTS places – currently, a degree with honours is typically required. Recommendation 6: The University should review its research-training pathways so as to enable students on research-intensive undergraduate degrees to access research-training scholarships earlier in their academic careers. 6. Scholarships and quality guidelines, enrolment targets and funding mechanisms. The fact that this review of scholarships takes place while the government is conducting its ""Higher Education at the Crossroads" review needs to be taken into account. Depending on the outcome of the government's review, the ANU's policy on scholarships may need to be radically revisited. For instance, were the government to introduce learning entitlements ("vouchers") rather than fund students directly, scholarships could be provided to make up the difference between the commonwealth learning entitlement and the cost of the course. Alternatively, if the government were to allow widespread fee deregulation, the government itself recognizes that there would need to be some form of Commonwealth Scholarship scheme to enable the very best students to access the best higher education. How the ANU's scholarships might articulate with such a Commonwealth scheme is currently unclear. Equity access scholarships 11 Submission 3, John Curtin School of Medical Research, and submission 5, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. 12 Submission 2, James Stellios, Faculty of Law. 10 Undergraduate and Honours Scholarships Review Report 1202/2002 Nevertheless, it is clear that the ANU's success in enabling access for higher education for certain equity groups – for instance, indigenous students, students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and students from distant regions – will remain one of the key performance indicators on which the quality of its educational provision will be judged. As the national university, the ANU has a clear obligation to be accessible to all Australians with the academic potential to benefit from the education it provides. The ANU has four scholarships of $3,000 each for academically-qualified students from equity access groups, as part of the Group of Eight Equity and Merit Scholarship scheme. Is this provision enough to meet that obligation? Currently, much of the assistance provision directed towards equity access is in the form of accommodation bursaries provided by the University and, to an extent, by colleges. This is a very appropriate type of provision, as the ANU's location means that meeting the cost of accommodation is a more significant issue for potential students than is the case with many other universities. The nature of both student accommodation, and of students' residential needs, has changed significantly since many of the ANU's existing scholarships and bursaries were introduced. Many factors, most significant being the increased amount of part-time employment undertaken by most students, have led to students seeking a wider range of accommodation: communal and individual, on-campus and off-campus, catered and self-catered. The broader range of these needs is not currently being met by the University through the way it provides support for disadvantaged students. Recommendation 7: The ANU should revise its provision of scholarships, awards and bursaries to reflect the changing needs of students, in particular those from groups which could be seen as disadvantaged. One of the most significant elements in the retention of students from disadvantaged backgrounds is the level of support they receive from the university community. This is reflected both in national statistics and in submissions to this review.13 The University provides a wide range of student support services that are well resourced and of very high quality. Study skills, counselling, student accommodation guidance, and targeted support such as provided to indigenous and international students are examples. Services provided by the Students' Association, PARSA and ISSANU are also extremely instrumental in ensuring that the ANU community as a whole supports all its students. However, important support for students with particular needs comes from other students, who offer knowledge, advice and guidance in an organic and immediate fashion. The University has begun to recognize the value of such mentoring, and has accordingly introduced a range of schemes to assist mutual student support. Programs such as SIGN have healthy numbers of students volunteering to be designated mentors, simply for the experience they gain. The ANU can encourage such initiatives by offering a small financial incentive for students to participate. 13 For instance, the "Crossroads" review paper on indigenous participation in higher education highlights the importance of university support and mentoring in retaining indigenous students. Submission 7, from a student, Bronwyn Wilkes, stresses the value of the support and mentoring she received from the University while she was a scholarship student. 11 Undergraduate and Honours Scholarships Review Report 1202/2002 There was a degree of debate as to what form and value such an incentive might take. Something around the level of the value of the GSF was thought to be appropriate – that is, $200-250, perhaps in the form of book vouchers. It was also stressed that the award should be retrospective to reward completed student participation in the mentoring scheme, to avoid half-hearted students signing up for the scheme simply to access the award up-front. Recommendation 8: An award of small value should be offered to students who volunteer as mentors. Changing patterns of study and enrolment. The extant provision of scholarships at the ANU is based on a model student of yesteryear. He entered higher education directly from Year 12 at an Australian school, did not need to engage in a significant amount of part-time work, and lived with his parents or in a college or hall. His most significant personal expenditure for his study itself was the cost of textbooks. Appropriately, the best such students were offered money and/or subsidised accommodation as a reward for academic excellence. The circumstances of students in higher education have changed since our approach to the nature and purpose of scholarships has been significantly reviewed. Nationally, a greater proportion of students is made up of mature students, and many of these are parents. More students are from overseas, and the majority of Australian students are now female. Many more students are working, often for a much greater proportion of their available time. Developments in information technology have resulted in radically different patterns of study – less of a requirement to be physically present, and a much greater requirement to be able to access computers and the Internet. Perhaps the way in which the ANU constructs and awards scholarships needs to respond to these changes. A great variety of material benefits can be offered to students in addition to or in lieu of money or accommodation. These include such things as IT or other equipment, free or subsidised travel, and child-care. The University might also wish to consider offering employment of various kinds to students, as a form of scholarship. This would provide some financial support for their studies that benefits both parties, and would accommodate to the greatest possible extent the tension between "work" and "study" that is so much a feature of modern student life. One issue here that must be taken into consideration is the fact that all material items given to students receiving Youth Allowance is assessed by Centrelink as income. Also, some of the students who are most in need are those not on Youth Allowance who have limited parental support and are working almost full time while studying. These factors must be carefully assessed when determining the most efficient and beneficial distribution of access funds and other material support for students in need. Recommendation 9: The material nature of existing scholarships should be made more flexible to respond to changing patterns of student learning. Promotion, marketing and management of scholarships. Many of the submissions referred to the excellent work done by ANU staff in the management of all aspects of scholarships, citing the importance of mentoring and guidance provided in 12 Undergraduate and Honours Scholarships Review Report 1202/2002 maximizing the benefit of the scholarship to their academic progress.14 Such praise seems equally applicable to all the various individuals and bodies involved in the management of NUS and Honours scholarships at the University. The submissions did express some concern about structural and procedural issues to do with the management of scholarships. In the main, these were to do with coordination. The timing of stages in the scholarships processes, the way in which documentation (such as references) was requested and provided, and the difficulty in accessing consolidated publicity information were all areas in which greater consistency was seen to be desirable. In particular, the lack of clear and consolidated scholarship information on the ANU web pages was a cause for concern both to review committee members and in submissions made to the review.15 However, it was noted that the recent introduction of a dedicated SASS website would vastly improve web access to scholarship information, and indeed this began to take place during the term of the review. Historically, responsibility for various aspects of scholarships has rested with SASS, the University Awards Committee, the Development Office, Public Affairs, and with local academic areas of the University. These areas variously deal with the funding, publicity, award, policy and management of scholarships. Possibilities may exist for the rationalisation of these procedures. In addition, although beyond the terms of reference of this review, there exist possibilities for streamlining scholarship processes between undergraduate and postgraduate areas, which currently additionally involve the Graduate School and the Research and Scholarships Office. The recent decentralization of postgraduate scholarships raises the possibility for stronger central coordination of postgraduate, Honours and undergraduate scholarships across the University. Recommendation 10: The DVC (Education) should review coordination mechanisms for the development, award, management and promotion of undergraduate and Honours scholarships, in particular to achieve better coordination with postgraduate scholarships. 14 Submission 7, Bronwyn Wilkes, NUS recipient. 15 Submission 8, Veronica Ross, JCSMR. 13 Undergraduate and Honours Scholarships Review Report 1202/2002 LIST OF SUBMISSIONS RECEIVED (Both UG and Honours) Number SOURCE 1 Jonathan Powles (NITA) 2 James Stellios (LAW) 3 JCSMR 4 Andrea Firth (Prizes) 5 RSPAS 6 Development Office 7 Bronwyn Wilkes (NUS) 8 Veronica Ross (JCSMR) 9 Canberra Times Article 10 Ian Proudfoot (Fac Asian Studies) 11 Hans Bachor (Fac Science) 12 Damien Ellwood (FEIT) 13 Student (Law) 14 Undergraduate and Honours Scholarships Review Report
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