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Headlines support she received from the school. Zupan notes that he also was inspired by board chairman Edmund Hajim, who gave the school $30 mil- lion last year. "As Ed said, paraphras- ing George Eastman, 'Education is the solution to everything.' I believe that, too," Zupan says. BizEd Wins Awards BizEd took home two awards in the 29th annual EXCEL Awards given out by the Society of National Asso- ciation Publications (SNAP) to honor excellence in association media and publishing. BizEd won a silver award for general excellence in the category of magazines with a circulation of 10,001 to 20,000. Co-Editor Sharon Shinn won a bronze award for her editorial "The Time Zone of Tech- nology," which appeared in the Janu- ary/February 2008 issue. Winners were selected from nearly 1,000 entries. More information is available at www.snaponline.org. Simplified International Loans The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has launched a custom loan program with Digital Federal Credit Union (DCU) that will provide assistance to international MBA students who do not have a U.S. co-signer. The program, which covers tuition and living expenses, is also available to current first-year international stu- dents for their second year of study. DCU developed the custom loan program in conjunction with Credit Union Student Choice, an organi- zation that offers school-certified private student lending solutions 12 BizEd JULY/AUGUST 2009 Good Works • A new Leadership Immersion course at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill recently allowed students to hone lead- ership skills while they raised money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. In one of the course's leadership challenges, three teams of students were given 48 hours to raise $6,500, the amount needed to grant the wish of one child with a life-threatening medical condition. Instead, the students raised $33,500—enough to send six children to Walt Disney World— through raffles, social networking campaigns on Facebook, and alumni contacts. The Leadership Immersion course helps students develop their leadership skills through hands-on experiences, coaching, and feedback. The Make-A- Wish challenge required students to design a strategy, motivate a team under pressure, and use personal and professional networks. For their next challenge, students will take part in an Outward Bound experience focused on team building and problem solving. • The Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ari- zona, has joined Table for Two, a nonprofit organization working to pro- mote health in the developing world by addressing hunger and lifestyle-related dis- eases. Thunderbird's food service provider, Chartwells, will offer a daily meal choice that contains less than 800 calories; for each meal purchased, Chartwells will donate 20 cents to Table for Two's desig- nated recipients. According to Ángel Thunderbird president Ángel Cabrera receives a healthy choice meal at the launch event for Table for Two. Cabrera, Thunderbird's president, "There is a portion of the world where one of the top threats to a person's health is obesity. In other parts of the world, one of the top threats is insufficient nutrition. This program addresses both of these problems." Table for Two already has provided approximately 600,000 school meals to hungry children in Uganda, Mala- wi and Rwanda. to credit unions across the country. The DCU program is a line-of-credit structure that allows international students to apply once and secure financing for their complete gradu- ate degree. Besides providing tuition financing, other key attributes of the line include low interest rates, flexible repayment options, and zero origina- tion or pre-payment fees.