Kennesaw State’s Division of Global Affairs is in the process of starting a scholarship designed to aid international students at KSU.
The new scholarship, called the Michele Miller International Student Scholarship, is named after Global Affairs Exchange Coordinator Michele Miller who has worked to try to create this scholarship for international students in need of financial aid.
Miller has worked at KSU since 1999 and started at the International Center, now called the Division of Global Affairs. She also spent seven years in the First Year Program teaching the “Be The Change” freshmen seminar class.
Miller said she wanted to create this scholarship for two important reasons.
“The first reason is: I see a need to assist our international student population,” Miller said. “So often they search for jobs and many of them are only for federal work-study student positions for which they cannot apply.
“They cannot work off campus, and they may have no family in the U.S. to assist them in their times of need. I wanted to give back to the population that I have been so fortunate to have worked with here at KSU,” she continued. “The second reason is to let the staff at KSU know that they too can make a change in their lives and in the lives of others at KSU.”
Miller said that when she arrived at KSU she had not finished her degree. She enrolled at KSU, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in human services and continued to complete her TESOL certification. After that, she also earned a master’s in educational leadership from KSU.
Miller is currently taking donations to get the scholarship endowed, and there is a link to donate on the Division of Global Affairs website.
“These are the very students that bring the world to a small place like Kennesaw, Georgia,” Miller said. “These students open the eyes of so many to see that the world is a large place that we live in with different cultures, identities and places.”
