{"id":23095,"date":"2014-05-16T12:39:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T16:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=23095"},"modified":"2014-12-16T13:35:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T18:35:58","slug":"ey-scholars-program-to-grant-128000-in-scholarships-to-fiu-school-of-accounting-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2014\/05\/ey-scholars-program-to-grant-128000-in-scholarships-to-fiu-school-of-accounting-students\/","title":{"rendered":"EY Scholars Program to grant $128,000 in scholarships to FIU School of Accounting students."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A group of College of Business alumni from EY (Ernst & Young) has awarded a gift of $128,000 for scholarships for School of Accounting students at Florida International University (FIU).<\/p>\n

The new EY Scholars Program will provide support for undergraduate accounting students who intend to pursue a master\u2019s degree in accounting. The scholarship is available beginning in students\u2019 first year of undergraduate through their graduate studies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are elated with the new EY Scholarship,\u201d said Ruth Ann McEwen, associate dean, College of Business and director, School of Accounting. \u201cOur graduates at EY are global leaders in their field, and we are humbled by the gratitude and confidence in our school that they have shown through their ongoing support to this institution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students who wish to apply for this scholarship can do so by applying online at fiu.academicworks.com<\/a> by June 1, 2014.\u00a0 The first set of scholarships will be awarded in the Fall 2014 semester.\u00a0 Student must obtain a 3.5 GPA and remain as a degree seeking student in the School of Accounting in order for the scholarship to renew annually.<\/p>\n

Alumni say \u201cthank you\u201d by helping current students.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hector Tundidor, donor and managing partner of EY\u2019s Miami office said, \u201cEY is proud to have bestowed these scholarships to FIU\u2019s School of Accounting. This is our way of saying \u2018thank you\u2019 to an institution that gave us an excellent education that was fundamental in developing our careers.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to Tundidor (BAcc \u201992), the donors included FIU College of Business alumni Steven J. Davis, (BBA \u201991, MBA \u201993) ; Alvaro R. Flores (BBA \u201988); Timothy P. LaMacchia (BBA \u201985); Jose M. Martinez (BAcc\u201993); Mark A. Garces (BAcc \u201998); Rick Gonzalez (BBA \u201990), and EY partner Oscar Suarez, a former College of Business Dean\u2019s Council member who now serves on the FIU Foundation Board of Directors.<\/p>\n

The scholarship may cover the cost of tuition until completion of graduation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of College of Business alumni from EY (Ernst & Young) has awarded a gift of $128,000 for scholarships for School of Accounting students at Florida International University (FIU). The new EY Scholars Program will provide support for undergraduate accounting students who intend to pursue a master\u2019s degree in accounting. The scholarship is available […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":23098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3280,3278,1378,3282,2070,3283,2339,3279,3281],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23095"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23100,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23095\/revisions\/23100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}