The PIE News

JANUARY 2, 2024

So when he received a fully-funded scholarship to study over 3,000 miles away at the University of Edinburgh, he couldn’t believe it – and, at first, his family didn’t. “My Ngwambe is one of the nearly 45,000 young Africans who has received a scholarship from the Mastercard Foundation. My mum thought it was a scam,” he laughs. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

As an undergraduate at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, Lee was a computer science major. Stepping into a scholarship void In graduate school, realizing there were virtually no books on Asian American theater history, she began interviewing Asian American theater artists around the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The MasterCard Foundation—whose work is focused on empowering youth in Africa and Canada’s Indigenous populations— began funding scholarships for CMU-Africa in 2016 and has been involved with the institution ever since. As of now there are seven universities participating in the program; CMU hopes to grow that to 10.

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