[US] Scholarship for Undergraduate and Graduate - Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
KaiserEDU.org invites undergraduate and graduate-level students in all disciplines to submit an original essay for the website’s first competition. Students are asked to submit entries by March 30, 2007 in response to the following topic:
You have just accepted a job as a senior advisor to a Presidential candidate* for the 2008 election. Your first task is to prepare a memo for the candidate outlining your recommendation for the candidate’s health plan.
Your memo should discuss what the centerpiece of the candidate’s health plan should be, why this issue is important to the voters, the potential challenges that your candidate may face in promoting the plan, and how it would be communicated to the public.
Your candidate can have any political affiliation you choose. Please be original. This memo should describe what you would recommend to your ideal candidate. Remember, the candidate is extremely busy so brevity and conciseness are important.
*does not have to be based on an actual candidate
APPLICATION RULES & REQUIREMENTS:
- DEADLINE: All essays must be submitted by March 30, 2007, 5pm EST. Entries will not be accepted after this time.
- Submissions must be from students enrolled in a degree-granting program at a university or college at the time of submission.
- Essays must not be more than 1,500 words in length.
- Essays must be double-spaced and no smaller than 11pt. font.
- Entries must be in English.
- Essays submitted for consideration must be original work, and must be prepared by one author only.
- Entries must be submitted by email and include 2 attachments only - ENTRY FORM and essay.
- Download the entry form and save it on your desktop. Fill it out.
- Attach the completed entry form and your essay to an email and send it to essaycontest2007@kff.org
- Do NOT put your name on the essay. Your name should only be on the entry form.
- Both documents should be written in Microsoft Word. The entries should not be pasted as text in the body of an email message.
- Entrants will receive a confirmation email within 24 hours of submission.
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**Failure to follow any of these rules may lead to disqualification from the contest. **
REVIEW and EVALUATION:
Memos from undergraduates and graduates will be judged separately. Entries will be judged by a panel of professionals with experience in health policy and politics from inside and outside the Kaiser Family Foundation, including Michael McCurry and Scott McClellan, former White House Press Secretaries. Judges will base their decisions on originality, expression of ideas, strength of argument, and clarity.
PRIZES:
Awarded to the top undergraduate and graduate student entries.
- First Prize: $1,000
- Second Prize: $500
- Up to 3 more essays will be selected for Honorable Mention
Winners will be notified by May 1, 2007. In addition to the monetary prizes, the winning essays will be posted on KaiserEDU.org and announced via email to subscribers of the website. The winning students’ schools will also be notified.
QUESTIONS:
Please email us at kaiserEDU@kff.org.
KaiserEDU.org was developed to provide a clearinghouse of materials on major areas of health care policy, particularly for students and faculty in health policy and related disciplines, as well as for anyone interested in learning more about health policy.
KaiserEDU.org is a free service of the Kaiser Family Foundation. The Foundation is not associated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries.
Note:
By participating in this contest, entrants (a) agree to be bound by the APPLICATION RULES AND REQUIREMENTS outlined above and by the decisions of Kaiser Family Foundation, which are final in all matters relating to the contest; and (b) acknowledge compliance with the APPLICATION RULES AND REQUIREMENTS outlined above. The Kaiser Family Foundation reserves the right to reject any entries that it deems to be out of compliance with these rules. Void where prohibited or restricted by law.
By entering the contest, you confirm that the essay submission is your own original creation. All submissions become the property of the Kaiser Family Foundation and will not be returned.
Employees (and their immediate families i.e., parents, spouse, children, siblings, grandparents, step parents, step children and step siblings) of the Kaiser Family Foundation are not eligible to enter this contest.
The Kaiser Family Foundation reserves the right to contact faculty or administrators at any entrant’s school to confirm enrollment and eligibility. In the event that enrollment cannot be confirmed, the entrant may be disqualified from the contest.
Contest winners agree to, except where prohibited, allow the Kaiser Family Foundation to post their essays on the KaiserEDU.org website and use their names and essays in promotional materials for publicity purposes without additional compensation. The Kaiser Family Foundation will give appropriate attribution to the author in all such cases.
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