{"id":33130,"date":"2015-03-27T14:34:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T19:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=33130"},"modified":"2015-03-27T14:34:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T19:34:22","slug":"brock-launches-region-wide-scholarship-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/03\/brock-launches-region-wide-scholarship-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock launches region-wide scholarship program"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an effort to help keep more of Niagara\u2019s top students in the region, Brock University has announced a plan to hand out more than 50 annual scholarships to graduating high school students.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Niagara Principal\u2019s Scholarship, one of two initiatives announced by Brock President Jack Lightstone in a presentation to Regional Council Thursday night, will recognize two students from each of Niagara\u2019s secondary schools who best demonstrate outstanding academic achievement and an exceptional commitment to school and community.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new entrance awards continue Brock\u2019s strategic mandate of youth retention and workforce development in the Niagara Region. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is our hope the Niagara Principal’s Scholarship will encourage and support local students to\u00a0pursue their post-secondary education in Niagara;\u00a0to continue to develop their leadership potential while at Brock and in the community, and to become the next generation of leaders in Niagara,\u201d said Kim Meade, Brock University\u2019s Vice-Provost and Associate Vice President.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Secondary school principals in Niagara may select up to two candidates from their school to be recipients of the award based on both academic achievement and the students\u2019 citizenship contributions to their community. The students will each receive $2,500 entrance scholarships.<\/span><\/p>\n

The second initiative <\/span>announced Thursday night will make post-secondary education accessible for young Niagara residents supported by social assistance. The program will allow eligible students to take specific courses part time at Brock, while continuing to receive support through the Ontario Works program.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tuition will be waved by the University, and students will be considered for programs to help with books<\/span>, transportation and other related costs of attending university. The program will focus on youth identified through the Niagara Region Bursary Program and by Ontario Works caseworkers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an effort to help keep more of Niagara\u2019s top students in the region, Brock University has announced a plan to hand out more than 50 annual scholarships to graduating high school students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33132,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33130\/revisions\/33132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}