KPMG Foundation awards $470,000 in scholarships

The KPMG Foundation this week announced it has awarded a total of $470,000 in scholarships to 47 minority accounting doctoral students for the 2010-2011 academic year.

Of the 47 scholarships, the foundation named 12 new recipients and renewed 35 existing awards. Each scholarship is valued at $10,000 and renewable annually for up to five years.

“We are pleased to provide financial support, career guidance, and other resources to each of these talented men and women as they move closer to fulfilling their dreams of becoming business professors,” said Bernie Milano, KPMG Foundation president.

“Over the years it has been a pleasure to see the impact the recipients of these scholarships have had on improving diversity in business schools and we look forward to the accomplishments of these 47 individuals,” Milano said.

Since 1994, the KPMG Foundation has awarded scholarships to 288 African American, Hispanic, and Native American scholars pursuing doctorate degrees, as part of its ongoing commitment to increase the representation of minority students and professors in business schools.

Today, 183 of the scholarship recipients have completed their doctoral program and are professors at universities throughout the country, with an additional 60 students, including the 47 receiving scholarships this year, currently in a doctoral program or scheduled to begin one this fall.

Created by the KPMG Foundation in 1994, The PhD Project, a related program designed to increase the diversity of business school faculty, has helped to boost the number of minority business professors to more than 1,043 from 294 when the project started. As of this September, there will be approximately 400 minorities in business-related doctoral programs.

“Strengthening diversity in the workforce starts in the classroom,” said Stacy Sturgeon, KPMG LLP’s national managing partner – university relations and recruiting. “A more diverse faculty means more role models who can inspire younger minority students to pursue business degrees.”

The new recipients and their PhD affiliations are:

Marquita Barnes, Georgia State
John Barrios, University of Miami
Kayla Booker, Jackson State University
Marcus Brooks, University of Texas San Antonio
Joanna Garcia, Virginia Tech
Rachel Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michael Paz, Drexel University
Joshua Racca, University of North Texas
Willie Reddic, Syracuse University
Joseph Reid, University of Memphis
Raul Tapia, University of Texas El Paso
Chanta Thomas, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

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