{"id":227822,"date":"2010-01-25T18:40:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T23:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"2192"},"modified":"2010-01-25T18:40:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T23:40:51","slug":"college-night-jan-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/227822","title":{"rendered":"College Night Jan. 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><SPAN class=heading3>PRESS RELEASE<BR><\/SPAN>January 22, 2010&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Contact:&nbsp; Dawn Alford, 542-5524<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR>In the midst of a recession, families are finding it even more difficult to afford college.&nbsp; Still, there are those students who desire a higher education, but don\u0092t know the steps to achieving one.&nbsp; Columbia Basin College through its College Night program aims to address these barriers.&nbsp; CBC College Night will be held Wednesday, Jan. 27th from 6-8 p.m. in the Gjerde Center.&nbsp; <BR><BR>The event is open to all high school seniors and their parents as a way to learn about CBC&#8211; its academic and program offerings, financial aid\/scholarship opportunities, and college in general.&nbsp; A student panel will provide personal insight into CBC\u0092s culture, while the departmental fair allows attendees one-on-one time with department heads and deans.<BR><BR>As an added incentive, at least two $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to two attendees.&nbsp; To be eligible, students must complete the scholarship application, submit it at College Night, complete the event survey, and attend CBC in the fall.&nbsp; Applications can be downloaded online at <A href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiabasin.edu\/collegenight\">www.columbiabasin.edu\/collegenight<\/A> or completed at the event.<\/P><P>Additional money available \u0096 The annual Foundation Scholarships are currently being accepted for the 2010-11 academic year.&nbsp; Applications can be downloaded at <A href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiabasin.edu\/foundation\">www.columbiabasin.edu\/foundation<\/A> and are due February 22, 2010.&nbsp; Last year, more than 200 students were awarded $274,000 in scholarships.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASEJanuary 22, 2010&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Contact:&nbsp; Dawn Alford, 542-5524&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the midst of a recession, families are finding it even more difficult to afford college.&nbsp; Still, there are those students who desire a higher education, but don\u0092t know the steps to achieving one.&nbsp; Columbia Basin College through its College Night program aims to address these barriers.&nbsp; CBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}