Four Kinds of Financial Aid

Broadcast date: 2-19-2009 / Written by Nancy Steinbach


From http://www.unsv.com/voanews/specialenglish/


This is the VOA Special English Education Report.


這是VOA特別英語----教育新聞


This week in our Foreign Student Series, we look at financial aid that comes in ships. Scholarships,fellowships and assistantships.


在外國學生方面，這周我們關注的是大學裏可以獲得的各種資金收入，如獎學金，研究員基金和助理職位。


But first we talk about financial aid of another kind: grants. A grant, unlike a loan, does not have to be repaid.


首先，我們將談談助學金的另一種形式---獎金，獎金不同於貸款，它是不需要交還。


One of our examples this week is the University of Missouri-Columbia, known as Mizzou (pronounced mah-ZOO). Mizzou is a public university with more than one thousand five hundred international students this school year. The total student population is more than thirty thousand.


這周使用的例子是拿密蘇里大學哥倫比亞分校，就是大家熟知的Mizzou(習慣叫做mah-ZOO), Mizzou是一所公立大學，每年該校的國際學生超過1,500名。學生總人數超過30,000人.


Mizzou has a grant program for international students. The Curator's Grant-in-Aid program is for those who get good grades and take part in university activities. Graduate students who receive a grant get nine free credits to take courses. Undergraduates receive between one thousand and five thousand dollars in support.


Mizzou 有一個針對國際生的獎勵計劃，The Curator's 獎學金計劃授予那些成績好而且積極參加校內活動的學生。獲得補貼的研究生能免費學習9門課程。大學生能獲得1000到5000美元不等的支柱。


Students must have attended Mizzou for a year before they can receive a grant. And they must reapply for the awards each semester.


學生必須入學一年後才能獲得支柱，而且每學期他們必須重新申請這筆獎金。


Some grants are called scholarships or fellowships. Scholarships are for undergraduates; fellowships are for graduate students. Awards may be based on financial need or on grades, talents or other requirements. The Global Heritage Scholarship at Mizzou, for example, is only for international undergraduates whose mother or father graduated from there.


很多補貼被稱作獎學金或研究員基金，獎學金是授給大學生的，而研究員基金是給研究生的。此獎金是基於經濟需要或升級、人才或其他需要。例如，Global Heritage獎學金，是隻能給其父親或母親畢業於該校的國際生。


The scholarship pays seven thousand five hundred dollars a year for tuition. Full tuition is currently almost nineteen thousand dollars.


獎學金用來支付每年7,500美元的學費。現在全部學費是差不多9,000美元。


Tuition is about the same at another public university, the University of Arizona in Tucson. It offers an undergraduate scholarship for international students who earned high marks in high school. The program is open to all foreign students who have been admitted to the university. Winners receive between two thousand and ten thousand dollars a year to help pay tuition.


另外一所位於美國圖森的公立大學----亞利桑那州大學，其學費和Mizzou學費一樣。它爲在中學獲得高分的國際生提供一項大學獎學金。這個計劃是開放給該校所有在該校就讀的外國學生。獲獎者可以獲得2,000到10,000美元不等的獎學金，幫學費助支付。


Seventy international students are currently receiving the scholarship. The University of Arizona has more than two thousand international students this academic year. The school had close to forty thousand students during the fall term.


現在70名國際生剛剛收到這筆獎學金。亞利桑那州大學這學年有超過2,000名國際生，在秋季學期，該校在校生高達40,000人。


Assistantships are jobs paid with money or free classes. Graduate assistants help professors for about twenty hours a week. They may teach undergraduates, grade papers and tests, and assist with research.


助理職位是付給薪水或免費上課的的工作。研究生助理每週要幫助教授上大約20節課。他們可以給大學生上課，評等級，考試和幫助教授做研究。


And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. The earlier reports in our Foreign Student Series are at www.unsv.com. I'm Steve Ember.