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| Retired Professor Yacub Launches College Scholarship Grant |
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| Monday, 28 December 2009 05:32 |
 GOLDEN Crescent Peace Center (GCPC) Executive Director retired Prof. Ali T. Yacub has launched a scholarship grant to support the study of Mass Communications by a qualified, needy student at the Western Mindanao State University (WMSU) starting in school year 2010-2011. Yacub said the “Prof. Ali T. Yacub – Golden Crescent Scholarship”, as he has officially dubbed it, will initially be offered only to a Muslim student. The scholarship will be administered by the La Hermandad Zamboanga Foundation, Inc. (LHFI), which has an ongoing scholarship program for several college students in the city. Yacub said he has already turned over the scholarship fund to LHFI. “I believe my partnership with (LHFI) in sharing what little we have with our less fortunate brothers/sisters is not only a privilege but on honor for me”, he told the civic organization which is based in Manila in a recent letter. He has also set the guidelines for the scholarship, among which are: the Muslim student completed high school with an average grade of 85% and passed WMSU’s College Entrance Test (CET) with a score of 85% or higher and preferably orphaned or comes from an indigent or jobless parents. Moreover, the applicant is also preferably an awardee of the Golden Crescent Award for either academic excellence, leadership or founder’s choice. The award was started by Yacub in 1970 as a personal project to motivate graduating high school students, at first Muslims but later Christians as well, to excel and go on to complete college studies. Since then, he has given the award annually to an increasing number of students of several local schools. A number of successful Muslim professionals in or from Zambanga today were recipients of the award, Yacub noted. When Yacub retired from WMSU last year, where he taught English and was director of its Public Affairs Office, he organized the Golden Crescent Peace Center, with several prominent Muslim leaders as officers and members. The center’s chief mission is to undertake community development projects primarily through education and peace-building. It closely works with the Inter-Religious Solidarity Movement for Peace and Peace Advocates Zamboanga. Yacub has also already officially informed WMSU president Dr. Grace Rebollos about the educational grant. |