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Serve your country? One option should be a Roosevelt Scholars program
Published on Thursday, Nov 26, 2009
Yet roughly 237,000 positions critical to the functioning of federal agencies will open up in the next three years. These are jobs that require training in fields such as law, engineering, medicine, languages and information technology. Without them, the ability to deliver vital missions and services will suffer.
Sen. George Voinovich and others in Congress have in mind a new program to spark interest in public service. The Ohio Republican, long concerned with federal work force development, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, recently introduced the Roosevelt Scholarship Act. A companion bill has been introduced in the House, also with bipartisan sponsorship.
The act would award full scholarships to undergraduates and graduate students in particular occupations deemed essential to the federal work force. An independent Roosevelt Scholars Foundation would gather information from agencies about hard-to-fill jobs, select a ''class'' of about 50 scholars each year and help with placement.
In return, scholarship recipients would give of their time, from three to five years of service in an executive-branch agency. The program has been compared to a civilian version of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, an important source of leadership for the U.S. armed forces.
The Roosevelt Scholars program, named after Theodore Roosevelt, would create a substantial incentive: full scholarships. In return, students would make an equally substantial commitment to serve their country, a commitment made up front.
The hope is, the Roosevelt scholars would help to restore due prestige to public service, to the idea of giving back to the nation a measure of the benefits bestowed on all citizens. That's a gift of greater value than even five years of service.
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