Monthly Journalism Award
THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for January 1990 is presented to: Scott Jaschik The Chronicle of Higher Education Although Georgetown University's Central American Scholarship...
...Kasten's office, and then Sen...
...Georgetown's administration of the program has been lackluster: Offerings have included placement of students from Belize—an Englishspeaking country—in beginning English classes, and agriculture classes focused on crops that cannot be grown in Central America and that must be cultivated with the use of equipment you cannot buy there...
...Please send nominations to Monthly Journalism Award, 1611 Connecticut Ave...
...The winner will be announced in the June issue...
...Kasten calls up the head of AID and raises hell...
...Two copies of the article or broadcast text should accompany the nomination...
...THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for January 1990 is presented to: Scott Jaschik The Chronicle of Higher Education Although Georgetown University's Central American Scholarship Program (CASP)—which brings poor Central American students to U.S...
...NW, Washington, D.C...
...community colleges—is supposed to improve international understanding, Jaschik's reporting shows that the millions in government funds CASP has received since its inception in 1985 (820 million this year alone) have gone mostly towards ineffectual academics wrapped up in political pork...
...20009...
...The award for stories published or aired in February will be announced in the May issue...
...Jaschik reveals that an outside review panel from the Agency for International Development (AID) determined that the community colleges affiliated with CASP were selected "not on their potential in offering courses, but the political pull of the congressmen in the district" Of the 42 community colleges in the program, six are in Wisconsin, home state of Sen...
...Robert Kasten, who initially proposed CASP, and who has championed funding increases for it every year of its existence...
...Nominations for stories published , or aired in March will close April 15...
...Jaschik quotes Charles Green, the head of the AID review team, as saying, "Any time there has been any problem with this program, Georgetown is on the phone to Sen...
...The Monthly Journalism Award is presented each month to the best newspaper, magazine, television, or radio story (or series of stories) on our political system...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
Vol. 22 • April 1990 • No. 3
