{"id":239358,"date":"2016-10-31T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=239358"},"modified":"2016-10-31T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T20:00:08","slug":"shefa-approves-625-college-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/shefa-approves-625-college-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"SHEFA approves 625 college scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan Higher Education Financial Assistance office under the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office has approved 625 scholarships out of 912 applicants for academic year 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The SHEFA board gave the approval last Oct. 27 during the regular meeting at the SHEFA office.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 912 applicants have applied since July 21, 2016, for various educational pursuits. Thirty applied for a scholarship to obtain certificates, 433 applied for associate degrees, 397 for bachelor\u2019s degrees, and 38 for master\u2019s degrees. Fourteen applicants applied for advanced degrees. <\/p>\n<p>With 454 applicants on-island, 384 were approved, resulting in 70 who were denied. Among off-island applicants, 241 were approved while 217 were denied, totaling 458 off-island applicants.<\/p>\n<p>SHEFA has granted a little less than $1 million in scholarship since July 21, 2016, for the academic year 2016-2017.<\/p>\n<p>SHEFA\u2019s mission is to provide scholarships to students in pursuit of a pos-secondary education on Saipan or abroad, with the ultimate goal of giving back to the CNMI community in terms of services and skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan Higher Education Financial Assistance office under the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office has approved 625&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,1507,689],"class_list":["post-239358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-saipan-mayor","tag-shefa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}