{"id":43096,"date":"2016-02-19T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T22:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=43096"},"modified":"2018-11-30T11:14:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T21:14:59","slug":"uh-bookstores-donate-25k-to-student-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/19\/uh-bookstores-donate-25k-to-student-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Bookstores donate $25K to student scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_43109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43109\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/system-bookstore-scholarship-ortega-n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"374\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/system-bookstore-scholarship-ortega-n.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/system-bookstore-scholarship-ortega-n-260x157.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa student Nadezna Ortega was 1 of 13 <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Bookstores Scholarship winners in fall 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"clear:both;\">For the second year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookstore.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Bookstores<\/a> released $25,000 in scholarship funds to support students enrolled at any campus within the <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> System<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural 2015\u00a0<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Bookstores Scholarship received more than 2,900 eligible applicants through <abbr>UH<\/abbr> System Financial Aid. Thirteen winners were selected in fall 2015 and awarded $1,000 toward part-time tuition or $2,000 for full-time tuition at their <abbr>UH<\/abbr> campus.<\/p>\n<p>Eligibility for the 2016\u00a0<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Bookstores Scholarship is based upon the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recipients shall be a full-time or part-time undergraduate or graduate student in any area of study attending any campus within the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> System or an incoming freshman who has been accepted and committed to enroll in the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> System<\/li>\n<li>Recipients shall have a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 or above<\/li>\n<li>Recipients shall have some degree of financial need, not necessarily as defined by federal guidelines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The deadline to apply for 2016\u00a0<abbr>UH<\/abbr> System Scholarships is March 1, 2016. For more details, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/finaid\">www.hawaii.edu\/finaid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<em>A <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Bookstores news release<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year, University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Bookstores released $25,000 in scholarships<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[572,460],"class_list":["post-43096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-scholarship","tag-uh-bookstore","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43096"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88087,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43096\/revisions\/88087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}