Dayton Business Journal creates scholarship
The Dayton Business Journal is launching a new scholarship aimed at helping students from the Dayton Public Schools who want to pursue business-related fields in college.
Neil Arthur, publisher of the Dayton Business Journal, and Percy Mack, Dayton Public Schools superintendent, made a joint announcement Thursday evening during an open house at the DBJ offices in downtown Dayton.
“This scholarship is our way of giving back to the community and helping those students in the Dayton Public Schools who are committed to becoming the business leaders of tomorrow,” Arthur said. “We’re very pleased to be able to make this announcement with Dr. Mack and to tie it in with our first-annual magazine devoted to businesses in the Dayton region — Business in Dayton.”
Superintendent Mack thanked the Dayton Business Journal for creating the scholarship. A student will receive the first scholarship at his or her graduation next year, he said.
“We’re so delighted to have this opportunity that a student can know his or her community stepped forward and said ‘You can,’” Mack said.
The DBJ developed the annual Business in Dayton magazine to celebrate the resources, opportunities and successes of business in the Dayton Region. With this unveiling of the first annual edition of the magazine, the paper felt it appropriate to take a small step forward and devote proceeds of this publication to the education of Dayton Region’s future business leaders, Arthur said.
The “Business in Dayton Scholarship” will be awarded to a Dayton Public Schools student pursuing an associate or bachelor’s degree in business-related disciplines.
The scholarship will provide up to $2,000 over four years. Criteria for the scholarship include an essay, grade point average of 3.0 or better, recommendations and financial need. Business majors will include such subjects as finance, supply-chain management, sales, human resources, technology, hospitality and others.
The first Business in Dayton Scholarship of $500 will be awarded in the spring of 2008 and will renewable annually for up to four years. An additional scholarship will be awarded each spring to total four by 2011.
The Dayton Region business community has demonstrated a continuing need for workforce development and training now and into the future, Arthur said. And the Dayton Public Schools have demonstrated a continuing and increasing need for support from the business community to help the next generation succeed.
“We want to make sure that the business leaders who are going to help make Dayton an even stronger and better community than it already is are going to be home-grown,” Arthur said.
