{"id":2045,"date":"2018-11-20T11:07:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2018-11-20T12:06:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T16:06:54","slug":"2045","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/2018\/11\/20\/2045\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bard MBA in Sustainability has announced a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bard.edu\/mba\/admission\/financialaid\/\">new Opportunity Scholarship<\/a>\u00a0for students who are first-generation college graduates. \u201cBard\u2019s MBA is one of the top programs globally that fully integrates a focus on social and environmental mission into a core business curriculum\u201d said MBA Director Goodstein. \u201cThis new scholarship will help us access a new talent pool, and better fulfill our mission of training business leaders focused on solving community challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Opportunity Scholarship will provide merit-based tuition support of between 80% and 100% to students who were first generation college students. Bard will award up to three Opportunity Scholarships are each year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mbaportal\/files\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-10.50.04-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-388 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mbaportal\/files\/2018\/11\/Screen-Shot-2018-11-20-at-10.50.04-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Based in NYC, Bard\u2019s MBA program has a low-residency structure, with classes meeting one weekend each month, plus on-line.\u00a0 This approach allows students to continue working while earning their MBA, increasing affordability. Students also attend from across the United States, flying or training into NYC once a month for classes.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/leadthechange.bard.edu\/blog\/todays-mba-programs-need-diversity-heres-why\">Bard\u2019s MBA program is also more than 60% women<\/a>, the reverse of most MBA\u2019s that top out at 40% female.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a business degree that focuses on the pressing social and environmental issues that the world faces is part of the reason that women are attracted to the program\u201d, said student Caitlin O\u2019Donnell. \u201cIn addition, the culture of the program stresses collaboration over competition as the future of business\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Director Goodstein says that the new Opportunity Program reflects the Bard MBA\u2019s focus as well on addressing the challenges of rising income inequality.\u00a0 \u201cIt is critical to overcome the barrier of limited access to education for students who do not come from privileged backgrounds,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bard MBA in Sustainability has announced a\u00a0new Opportunity Scholarship\u00a0for students who are first-generation college graduates. \u201cBard\u2019s MBA is one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admission","category-news","category-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}