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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><font size="3" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";font-style:italic">Dear all,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><font size="3" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";font-style:italic">Once again, Queens College is a partner institution with the Asian & Pacific Islander American
Scholarship Fund (APIASF). This means that our students are eligible to receive generous funding and to participate in mentoring and other professional development activities through APIASF. APIASF relies on volunteer readers, so I’m writing to invite you
to take part in reviewing applications for the APIASF Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI) Scholarship Program. Applications can be reviewed completely online and at your own pace.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><font size="3" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";font-style:italic">The APIASF AANAPISI Scholarship Program is a collaboration with AANAPISIs and the communities
they serve to provide scholarships, expand institutional capacity and mobilize local resources to help foster economic development.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><font size="3" color="red" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";color:red;font-style:italic">How can you help? </span></font></i><span class="MsoCommentReference"><i><font size="3" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";font-style:italic"> </span></font></i></span><i><font size="3" color="red" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";color:red;font-style:italic"><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><font size="3" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";font-style:italic">volunteers are needed between October 16, 2015 and November 16, 2015. Readers will have access
to a secure website to review scholarship applications. To ensure that there are enough readers to evaluate all applications, readers are asked to commit to reading a minimum of 20 applications. Each application takes approximately 10-15 minutes to review.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><font size="3" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";font-style:italic">All volunteers, new & returning, are required to review a training document (PDF). The training
covers basic information related to education in the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities and provides an overview of the review and scoring process.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><font size="3" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";font-style:italic">All readers must have an undergraduate college diploma and/or 7-10 years of work experience.
Readers do not need to be of AAPI ethnicity.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><font size="3" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";font-style:italic">If you are interested in volunteering as a reader for the APIASF AANAPISI Scholarship Program,
please complete the new reader registration form online at </span></font></i><a href="https://aanapisischolarship.apiasf.org/reader/"><i><font size="3" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";font-style:italic">https://aanapisischolarship.apiasf.org/reader/</span></font></i></a><i><font size="3" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";font-style:italic">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><font size="3" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";font-style:italic">For more information, please contact me or Cecilia Marshall, Director of the APIASF Scholarship
Program, at </span></font></i><a href="mailto:cmarshall@apiasf.org"><i><font size="3" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";font-style:italic">cmarshall@apiasf.org</span></font></i></a><i><font size="3" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";font-style:italic">
or call (202) 747-7235. <o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><font size="3" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";font-style:italic">Thank you very much for considering this rewarding opportunity to help students fulfill their
academic and professional goals. <o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><font size="3" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";font-style:italic">Best,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><font size="3" face="Source Sans Pro"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro";font-style:italic">Moira
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">~<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Moira E. Egan, Ph.D.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">National Fellowships Advisor
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Office of Honors and Scholarships
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Rm. 23 Honors Hall
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Queens College, CUNY
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(718) 997-2863
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