{"id":5239,"date":"2021-02-10T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=5239"},"modified":"2021-08-18T11:39:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T16:39:42","slug":"ambassadors-award-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2021\/02\/10\/ambassadors-award-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassadors award scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This fall, thanks to the generosity of MWSU Ambassadors members, supporters and a gift from the W. Fairleigh Enright Family Foundation, $16,825 in scholarships were awarded to 20 nontraditional students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through their work to support nontraditional students (aged 25 and older), the Ambassadors award scholarships and mini grants for equipment, supplies and other items necessary to complete coursework.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The group raises funds through Thanksgiving tributes and their annual fundraiser, Night at the Ritz. Due to COVID-19, the 2020 event was canceled, but the group is hopeful they will be able to conduct the event in some form this coming year. To become a member and strengthen the bridge between campus and community, visit<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/griff.vn\/bridge\"> <b>griff.vn\/bridge<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, thanks to the generosity of MWSU Ambassadors members, supporters and a gift from the W. Fairleigh Enright Family Foundation, $16,825 in scholarships were awarded to 20 nontraditional students. Through their work to support nontraditional students (aged 25 and older), the Ambassadors award scholarships and mini grants for equipment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5371,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions\/5371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}