Jack W. Johnson Memorial Scholarship

The endowed Jack W. Johnson Memorial Scholarship was established in 2003 by loving family and friends as a lasting tribute to Jack W. Johnson, class of 1960. An Akron native, Jack graduated with a B.S. from the University of Akron in industrial management. He completed the Program for Executives at Carnegie Mellon University in 1977 and the Program for Senior Executives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982. Well-respected in the business community, Jack was with the BFGoodrich Co. from 1960 to 1983, where he held a series of positions including: personnel manager at the plant level, division manager of industrial relations (tire division), corporate manager of union relations, staff vice president for labor relations, and vice president of administration for the engineered product group. From 1983 to 1986, he was senior vice president, human resources, at Eastern Airlines. From 1987 to 1989, he served as deputy director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in Washington, D.C. He was employed by the LTV Corporation from 1989 to 1992, first as director of labor relations and personnel, and then as vice president, human resources, LTV Aerospace and Defense Co. Since November of 1992 until his death on September 14, 2003, Jack was a labor-management relations consultant with Bill Usery Associates Inc. in Washington, D.C. Mr. Usery is a former secretary of labor and held Jack in the highest regard. The Jack W. Johnson Memorial Scholarship will provide academic undergraduate scholarship(s) to a deserving College of Business Administration student selected by the dean of the College of Business Administration in cooperation with the Office of Financial Aid. The students must maintain at least a 3.0 GPA and must exhibit scholarship and leadership within the College of Business Administration. The University of Akron Foundation Board of Trustees has the power to change the description of the scholarship if, in the future, it is determined the scholarship is not consistent with the mission of the College of Business Administration.