{"id":4816,"date":"2006-10-01T15:33:53","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T19:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2014-11-14T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:04:00","slug":"graduate-student-named-2006-2007-william-g-mcgowan-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2006\/10\/graduate-student-named-2006-2007-william-g-mcgowan-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate student named 2006-2007 William G. McGowan Scholar."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nArlene Ramkissoon (BBA \u201905)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The College of Business Administration has named Arlene Ramkissoon<\/strong> (BBA \u201905) the William G. McGowan Scholar for the current academic year. The scholarship award covers the recipient\u2019s tuition.<\/p>\n

Currently a student in the Master of Science in Human Resources Management (MSHRM) program in the Chapman Graduate School of Business, she plans a career in human capital consulting following her graduation in December, 2006.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to work for a company, offering human resources (HR) consulting services to their clients with respect to staffing, recruiting, and outsourcing,\u201d said Ramkissoon, who made a switch from finance, in which she earned her undergraduate degree, into HR because she felt the field would give her more opportunities to interact directly with people.<\/p>\n

McGowan\u2019s charitable orientation struck the applicant.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ramkissoon was inspired to apply for the scholarship by one of her best friends\u2014Shradha Ramchandani<\/strong> (BBA \u201906), last year\u2019s William G. McGowan Scholar.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe urged me to apply because she thought I could get it and because she said I had nothing to lose by trying,\u201d Ramkissoon said.<\/p>\n

Among its elements, the application process requires a 1,000-word essay about the business and broader contributions of McGowan, a noted telecommunications leader.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned a lot of cool things about him,\u201d Ramkissoon said. \u201cHe was a very interesting person, and I was most impressed because he was really interested in students, especially those who otherwise would not be able to pay for their education. He also gave lots of money to charity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramkissoon contributes to the university through her work.<\/em><\/p>\n

In addition to the essay and to needing a solid academic record\u2014which she fulfilled with her 3.61 GPA\u2014applicants must demonstrate evidence of campus or community involvement, a criterion that she ably met.<\/p>\n

Since the fall of 2005, she has served as an international student ambassador, responding to email queries from students in the Caribbean and forwarding ones she couldn’t resolve to the admissions office. Starting in her sophomore year and through her senior year, she worked as an office assistant to Rosa Jones<\/strong>, vice president of student affairs and undergraduate education. She currently works in the college\u2019s Office of Online Learning, helping Toni-Anne Aiken<\/strong>, the office\u2019s HR manager, with HR functions such as screening resumes and setting up interviews.<\/p>\n

The McGowan Scholarship is the first scholarship for which she ever applied, but it is not the first she has received.<\/p>\n

\u201cFlorida International University approached me because of my SAT scores and offered me a Merit Scholarship, which enabled me to attend the university as an in-state student for my undergraduate work,\u201d said this native of Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arlene Ramkissoon (BBA \u201905) The College of Business Administration has named Arlene Ramkissoon (BBA \u201905) the William G. McGowan Scholar for the current academic year. The scholarship award covers the recipient\u2019s tuition. Currently a student in the Master of Science in Human Resources Management (MSHRM) program in the Chapman Graduate School of Business, she plans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[173,1126,1954,2319,2435,2589],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816"}],"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\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24367,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions\/24367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}