Contributor: John Winkelman, WG'80, WHCMAA Scholarship Committee Chairperson
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While the Wharton Health Care Management Program (WHCMP) was the first MBA program in the country that allowed students to focus on the management of health care enterprises, the program’s success and the success of its alumni over the past four decades resulted in the rapid growth of competing health care management MBA program across the U.S. The competition for outstanding students has increased.
About 10 years ago, the Alumni Association and the WHCMP office determined that establishing a Scholarship fund the Program Director could use to attract the best and the brightest students into the Program would be a good use of the Alumni Association network. The June Kinney Fellowship Scholarship (“The Kinney Scholarship”) was established in 2015 to provide additional financial assistance to an applicant to the WHCM Program who was already accepted for admission to Wharton and the WHCM Program.
The WHCMAA undertook a fund-raising effort and raised over $500,000 to establish this scholarship in honor of June Kinney who has served as WHCM Program Director for over 3 decades. Each year, the WHCMAA awards one or two incoming students a Kinney scholarship with the purpose of supporting HCM’s ability to attract the best applicant who shows “a sense of social mission, as well as leadership characteristics that will both build community within the class and contribute to the societal health care enterprise after graduation.” By offering this scholarship along with an offer of mentoring, WHCMAA contributes to the WHCM program’s ability to attract the best candidates, most of whom have attractive offers from other schools as well.
In recent years, The Wharton Endowment Fund has taken responsibility for managing the Kinney Scholarship funds. The Wharton Office of External Affairs has provided the Alumni Association with a full report on the Alumni Association Fellowship Fund in Honor of June Kinney, covering the 2021-22 and 2022-23 fiscal years, including biographies of the recent recipients. If you have any questions, please reach out to the WHCMAA Scholarship Committee Chair, John Winkelman at [email protected]. If you want to contribute to the Kinney Scholarship Fund, please go to the WHCMAA site at Contribute to WHCMAA Fellowship Funds - Wharton Health Care Management Alumni Association
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