Scholarship and Award Opportunities

For First-Year Media Management Majors

The McCormick Foundation established the McCormick Scholars Program in 2005 to cultivate outstanding leadership in media management. The program will fund 20 Kellogg School Media Management majors over a 10-year period.

The scholarship provides:

• Full tuition for three academic quarters to two Kellogg Media Management majors for their second year of study.
• An additional stipend for summer work either in the media or conducting media research to enable scholars to undertake worthwhile activities they could not consider without the stipend. Summer stipends may be awarded up to $25,000.

Eligibility
Scholarships are available to first-year Kellogg School Media Management majors to be used for their second year of study beginning in the fall of 2009. Applicants must demonstrate a deep interest in attaining a leadership position in a media company. Special emphasis will be given to those who focus on news and information media and to students of diverse backgrounds.

Other requirements for eligibility:

• Scholars must intern at a media company or conduct media research in the summer between years one and two of their Kellogg School MBA program
• Scholars must obtain faculty approval to do a media management internship or media research and complete that work with an outstanding record
• Scholars must take a one credit unit of independent study (supervised and approved by the Media Management faculty) that draws on their media management course work and experience from their summer work or research.
• Scholars must produce a product or presentation from their independent study project and present it at a gathering during their second year or at the biennial retreat.

For Part-Time and Second-Year Media Management Majors

Joseph Field, founder and chairman of Entercom Communications Corp., established the Lee M. Hague Memorial Fund in 2004 to further the preparation of Kellogg students for careers in the media by investigating a particularly challenging or emerging facet of the media. Media management project expenses are reimbursed for a second year student or group of second year students each year.

Eligibility
The award will go to part-time or second-year students who are Media Management Majors and have completed MEDM 912 and MEDM 431 and who are enrolled in MEDM 911

Other requirements for eligibility:

• Preference will be given to students with high-impact projects and/or a demonstrated commitment and passion to a career in the media industries.
• Students can apply individually or as a group.
• Projects may build on work in previous or current classes that count toward the Media Management major. Students may also propose projects that take work done in the Media Management courses to a higher level or that focus on new issues.