{"id":17896,"date":"2012-12-11T09:55:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T13:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=17896"},"modified":"2012-12-11T09:55:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T13:55:03","slug":"wright-state-expands-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/12\/11\/wright-state-expands-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State expands scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt))<\/p>\n<p>Since 2006 Dayton CW&#8217;s Scholarship program has made the dream of college a reality for many high school graduates.<\/p>\n<p>Now Wright State University is investing $3 million in a new, expanded scholarship program designed to make a college education more affordable and attract and retain high-achieving and academically successful students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we&#8217;re doing this year is were going to expand the program to make it more available to more students from Ohio,&#8221; explained Wright State President David R. Hopkins.<\/p>\n<p>The new program broadens the requirements of existing scholarships, making more students eligible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is Wright State\u2019s way of helping deserving students who may find the pursuit of a college degree financially challenging,\u201d said Wright State President David R. Hopkins. \u201cWe want to open the doors to a college education as widely as possible. Our Academic Performance Scholarship program, which features the new Wright Promise Scholarship and the new Raider Excellence Scholarship, is a perfect way to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdtn.com\/dpp\/news\/local\/greene_county\/wright-state-expands-scholarships#.UMc6-rZ1GoM\">WDTN.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt)) Since 2006 Dayton CW&#8217;s Scholarship program has made the dream of college a reality for many high school graduates. Now Wright State University is investing $3 million in a new, expanded scholarship program designed to make a college education &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/12\/11\/wright-state-expands-scholarships\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[714,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-media","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17897,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17896\/revisions\/17897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}