{"id":13726,"date":"2018-12-07T10:53:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=13726"},"modified":"2018-12-07T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:53:43","slug":"cc-receives-50000-for-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2018\/12\/cc-receives-50000-for-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"CC Receives $50,000 for Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In early September, the Xi Pi Chapter of the Xi Pi Uplift Foundation gave $50,000 for a new Colorado College scholarship that will provide need-based financial aid to students from the greater Colorado Springs area. The Uplift Foundation is a charitable arm of the Xi Pi Chapter, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Officially titled the Xi Pi Chapter, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Uplift Foundation Endowed Scholarship, first preference will be given to an African American male who meets the selection criteria, which includes demonstrated experience with, or commitment to, serving or working with racial minorities. If this selection criteria cannot be met,\u00a0the\u00a0scholarship\u00a0will then be awarded\u00a0to\u00a0any\u00a0male\u00a0or\u00a0female\u00a0racial\u00a0minority\u00a0student who\u00a0meets\u00a0the selection criteria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Scholarships are a $100 million funding priority of <i>Building on Originality: The Campaign for Colorado College<\/i>. Reaching this goal will allow Colorado College to award financial aid to a third more students than it currently is able to.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early September, the Xi Pi Chapter of the Xi Pi Uplift Foundation gave $50,000 for a new Colorado College scholarship that will provide need-based financial aid to students from the greater Colorado Springs area. The Uplift Foundation is a charitable arm of the Xi Pi Chapter, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Officially titled the Xi&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1267,"featured_media":13582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-13726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-2018","tag-news-from-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2018\/11\/CC-BUL-Winter18-07-NewsUplift.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13727,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13726\/revisions\/13727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}