'Path to Diversity' Awards Scholarships

Published May 19, 2003, 2:00 p.m. EDT

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Thirty-one minority professionals have been awarded scholarships to the Mortgage Bankers Association of America's School of Mortgage Banking under a joint MBA/Freddie Mac diversity program.The program, Path to Diversity, was developed two years ago to increase cultural diversity in the real estate finance industry. In addition to providing scholarships, the program supports the internship programs of the 17 participating member firms by offering MBA distance-learning courses to interns free of charge, the sponsoring organizations said. The member firms are: American First FCU, Bank of America, Cenlar, Chase Manhattan Mortgage, CitiMortgage, CTX Mortgage, Countrywide, Ditech, GMAC, Irwin Mortgage, Magnet Portfolio Services, Peninsula Mortgage Bankers, Peoples Choice Mortgage, R-G Financial Republic Bank, SunTrust Mortgage, United Guaranty, and Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. The MBA can be found online at http://www.mbaa.org.

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