For the second year, Americans for the Arts is cosponsoring the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Foundation College Scholarship Award: Americans for the Arts Recipient to encourage the integration of the arts into economic education. Two $5,000 scholarships will be awarded to college level students or students entering college, who come from an economic disadvantaged household, have attended a public school, can demonstrate a long term participation in the study of, creation in and/or performance in one or more art forms, including dance, music, theatre, literary, visual/media arts), excelled academically, and have formally declared the intent to study and apply economics in their pursuit of higher education and professional career. 

The complete application and biography of student must be received by Americans for the Arts no later than COB on Monday, September 14, 2009. Application materials may be either emailed or faxed to: 

Marete Wester, M.S., Director of Arts Policy  Americans for the Arts, One East 53rd. Street, 2nd. Floor, New York, NY  10022 T 212 223 2787, ext. 1105 F 212 980 4857 Main Line 202 371 2830 Email mwester@artsusa.org  

  The final candidates will be selected by a scholarship sub-committee of the NABE Foundation Board and announced in September. The NABE Foundation is the charitable arm of the National Association for Business Economics. 

The National Association for Business Economics is the largest international association of applied economist, strategists, academics, and policy makers committed to the application of economics in decision making in the world. The NABE Foundation is supported by NABE members to provide scholarships, education, and other efforts to build the economic profession. 

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