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.


这是VOA特别英语----教育新闻


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


在外国学生方面，这周我们关注的是大学里可以获得的各种资金收入，如奖学金，研究员基金和助理职位。


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


首先，我们将谈谈助学金的另一种形式---奖金，奖金不同于贷款，它是不需要交还。


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.


这周使用的例子是拿密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校，就是大家熟知的Mizzou(习惯叫做mah-ZOO), Mizzou是一所公立大学，每年该校的国际学生超过1,500名。学生总人数超过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 有一个针对国际生的奖励计划，The Curator's 奖学金计划授予那些成绩好而且积极参加校内活动的学生。获得补贴的研究生能免费学习9门课程。大学生能获得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.


学生必须入学一年后才能获得支柱，而且每学期他们必须重新申请这笔奖金。


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.


很多补贴被称作奖学金或研究员基金，奖学金是授给大学生的，而研究员基金是给研究生的。此奖金是基于经济需要或升级、人才或其他需要。例如，Global Heritage奖学金，是只能给其父亲或母亲毕业于该校的国际生。


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


奖学金用来支付每年7,500美元的学费。现在全部学费是差不多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.


另外一所位于美国图森的公立大学----亚利桑那州大学，其学费和Mizzou学费一样。它为在中学获得高分的国际生提供一项大学奖学金。这个计划是开放给该校所有在该校就读的外国学生。获奖者可以获得2,000到10,000美元不等的奖学金，帮学费助支付。


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.


现在70名国际生刚刚收到这笔奖学金。亚利桑那州大学这学年有超过2,000名国际生，在秋季学期，该校在校生高达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.


助理职位是付给薪水或免费上课的的工作。研究生助理每周要帮助教授上大约20节课。他们可以给大学生上课，评等级，考试和帮助教授做研究。


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.