{"id":290710,"date":"2018-12-20T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=290710"},"modified":"2018-12-20T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:00:13","slug":"uog-society-announces-scholarship-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-society-announces-scholarship-program\/","title":{"rendered":"UOG society announces scholarship program"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_290708\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290708\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/UOG-Society-pix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-290708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The University of Guam Society of Emeritus Professors and Retired Scholars at a meeting in September. From left, UOG president Thomas W. Krise; president emeritus Robert A. Underwood; professor emerita Rebecca A. Stephenson; professor emerita Cynthia B. Sajnovsky; professor emerita and SEPRS treasurer Filomena Cantoria; professor emeritus Robert M. Sajnovsky; professor emeritus and SEPRS chair Lawrence Kasperbauer; professor emerita Lourdes Klitzkie; director emeritus and SEPRS vice chair Hiro Kurashina; professor emeritus Jose A. Cruz; professor emeritus and SEPRS secretary Randall L. Workman; and professor emeritus George Kallingal. (University of Guam)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The officers and members of the University of Guam Society of Emeritus Professors and Retired Scholars announced yesterday the society\u2019s scholarship program for the 2019\u20132020 academic year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This scholarship is open to and intended to support any registered full-time UOG student with a general point average of 3.0 or higher. Award amounts are $500 per semester or $1,000 per academic year.<\/p>\n<p>Applications required to submit an essay and a letter of recommendation and must be received by the UOG Financial Aid Office by Feb. 28, 2019, at 5pm, Chamorro Standard Time. Students may access the application and eligibility and selection criteria at https:\/\/url.uog.edu\/FeX7Gu\u00a0or by contacting the Financial Aid Office at (671) 735-2288 or at\u00a0finaid@triton.uog.edu.<\/p>\n<p>A successful applicant will be notified of the scholarship award by the end of March and will be invited to attend an award ceremony in April.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The SEPRS Scholarship is made possible by generous donations from its members both on-and off-island and is managed by the UOG Endowment Foundation and the UOG Student Financial Aid Office.\u00a0<strong>(UPG) <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The officers and members of the University of Guam Society of Emeritus Professors and Retired&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":290711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[445],"class_list":["post-290710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pacific","tag-uog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290710","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}