Hougen Business & Community Service Award
In recognition of the valuable contributions students make to their community when volunteering their time, Rolf and Margaret Hougen would like to provide a $500 award to a Yukon University student enrolled in the second year of the Business Administration Diploma program.
Rolf and Margaret Hougen have been pillars of the North for their entire adult lives. In a book documenting their history, they provided advice to their own grandchildren and would like to share this advice with applicants for the scholarship:
Education is important and will give you an excellent foundation for all of your endeavours in the years ahead. Build yourself into a person of integrity and trustworthiness, and ensure you have a reputation for honesty. Seek advice from those around you but in the end make up your own mind. When starting out in your career, be prepared to live simply until you can reduce your debts and are successful enough to afford some luxuries.
Rolf was the founder of many Yukon community organizations, including: the Young People’s Association, the first Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous event, and the Yukon Foundation. Nationally, Rolf chaired the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and co-founded the satellite delivery network Cancom, the first company in the world to provide a unique system to deliver radio and television to remote and underserved regions of Canada. Rolf is also a recipient of the Order of Canada. To this day, both Rolf and Margaret remain committed contributors to the arts community in the Yukon and to the preservation of the territory’s unique heritage.
Eligibility
- Be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident
- Be registered full-time in the second year of the Business Administration diploma program at Yukon University
- Write 1-2 paragraphs talking about your current workplace or the place where you
volunteer (you don’t need to put the name of the organization, if you’d prefer to keep it
confidential), and your analysis, of what is working well in the organization, or not
working well. For example- are there business processes that could be more efficient,
are there positions that might have different responsibilities, and is the management style
effective?
Requirements
- A letter from a community organization stating that you are a volunteer. The letter must include:
- confirmation that you are currently volunteering with the organization
- the date you started to volunteer with this organization
- an approximation of the number of hours you have volunteered. and
- your duties