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Speaker 2: Excited to have a guest joining me on the telephone
Speaker 2: line right now, I have joining me Rob Berchinski, and
Speaker 2: Rob is with the Harvard Kennedy School and they are
Speaker 2: honoring veterans. Perfect time to talk about it. This week,
Speaker 2: the week of Veterans Day, that was Tuesday, and we're
Speaker 2: talking right now about how they're honoring veterans. And the
Speaker 2: gentleman I'm talking to Rob is a veteran himself, a
Speaker 2: US Air Force veteran. So thank you very much for
Speaker 2: your service, sir, Thanks for having me John. Now let's
Speaker 2: talk about how the Harvard Kennedy School is honoring veterans,
Speaker 2: the people who serve with the largest single year fellowship
Speaker 2: in history, the American Service Fellowship. And this is something
Speaker 2: it's a one hundred thousand dollars scholarship and stipend for
Speaker 2: fifty veterans and public servants. So if I'm a veteran,
Speaker 2: how do I apply for this particular scholarship.
Speaker 3: Great. Yeah. What we're doing is launching what we call
Speaker 3: the American Service Fellowship. It's the single largest scholarship program
Speaker 3: in the almost ninety year history of the Harvard Kennedy
Speaker 3: School of Government. And what we're going to do with
Speaker 3: this is bring an incredible group of public service minded Americans,
Speaker 3: hopefully from all over the country to our campus here
Speaker 3: in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We're going to offer them an absolutely
Speaker 3: free master's degree and a stipend to boot. So it's
Speaker 3: about a one hundred thousand dollars deal all in. And
Speaker 3: as long as those that apply have seven years of
Speaker 3: demonstrated public service in all its forms, they can are
Speaker 3: free to apply. So that means active duty military veterans,
Speaker 3: those that went to Washington, d c. And served as
Speaker 3: diplomats or development officials, those that ran for public office,
Speaker 3: might be serving in public office at the local city
Speaker 3: council level or in state houses, school teachers, police officers, firefighters,
Speaker 3: those that join the Peace Corps. Anybody who's got seven
Speaker 3: years of public service should apply. Applications are due by
Speaker 3: December first come. You'll meet an incredible group of people
Speaker 3: learn together, learn from our world class faculty about how
Speaker 3: to think about the big challenges facing our country and
Speaker 3: the world, and then how to go back out into
Speaker 3: your communities in order to solve those challenges.
Speaker 2: I love that. Now we just talked about who's eligible,
Speaker 2: let's talk about how many people will be accepted into
Speaker 2: this program. Is there just one or is there more
Speaker 2: than one?
Speaker 3: No, we're going to have fifty total, and that'll be
Speaker 3: part of our larger student body here at the Harvard
Speaker 3: Kennedy School. But fifty scholarships of about one hundred thousand
Speaker 3: dollars each.
Speaker 2: That's very cool. So with the number fifty, is it
Speaker 2: going to be one per state or it's not necessarily
Speaker 2: one per state?
Speaker 3: Not necessarily, But I'm talking to you, John, I'm out
Speaker 3: in the world hoping to hit communities all over the country.
Speaker 3: So we are advertising in every state in this country
Speaker 3: and want to build a cohort of that fifty that
Speaker 3: really represents different views, perspectives, backgrounds and states across the country.
Speaker 2: Rob, I'm sure other people listening probably thought what I
Speaker 2: thought as you were describing that. I thought of a
Speaker 2: couple of different people that I think would be perfect
Speaker 2: to apply for this. But how do I tell them
Speaker 2: where do I send them? Do I send them to
Speaker 2: a website? Or how in the world do they apply
Speaker 2: for the Harvard Kennedy School Veterans Scholarship.
Speaker 3: That's a great question, John, I hope that your friends
Speaker 3: and family are applying. The way they would go about
Speaker 3: doing that is to go to the web page. It's
Speaker 3: kN dot sc slash service again, that's Ken dot sc
Speaker 3: slash service. Or if it's easier, just google American Service Fellowship.
Speaker 3: It'll be the first thing that comes up. You'll come
Speaker 3: to our web page at the Harvard Kennedy School. There'll
Speaker 3: be more information and a button that you can use
Speaker 3: to apply.
Speaker 2: I think this is a wonderful thing, and if you
Speaker 2: know somebody who might be a good fit for this,
Speaker 2: be sure to tell them. I'm going to make it
Speaker 2: really easy for you to connect them. I'll share a
Speaker 2: link to all of this information on our Facebook page.
Speaker 2: Rob Thank you for doing what you're doing, and thank
Speaker 2: you for sharing this wonderful news.
Speaker 3: Thank you, John really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: If you would like to learn more about the Harvard
Speaker 2: Kennedy School Veterans Scholarship, I've got all of the information
Speaker 2: on our Facebook page. Facebook dot com slash Sunny Radio
Speaker 2: and Facebook dot com slash Sioux Falls News.
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