  {"id":4026,"date":"2014-04-07T20:07:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T20:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2016-02-12T17:33:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:33:40","slug":"shakopee-mdewakanton-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2014\/04\/07\/shakopee-mdewakanton-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakopee Mdewakanton scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC)<\/strong> recently contributed $250,000 to increase endowed scholarships for American Indian students at Âé¶¹Çø College. This grant funding will be added to the existing SMSC endowment fund, which was established in the mid-1990s. The scholarship is utilized to recruit and retain talented American Indian students who are enrolled or are eligible for enrollment in a federally recognized tribe or are identified as American Indian by the Indian Education Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of all those involved with our request to the SMSC, we are absolutely thrilled and extremely appreciative of this most generous gift. The SMSC, once again, serves as a shining example of its ongoing commitment in the area of \u2018cradle to career\u2019 educational opportunities in our native communities, and in our case, [of providing] scholarship support to American Indian students seeking degree completion at Âé¶¹Çø College,\u201d said Bonnie Wallace, enrolled member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and member of the Âé¶¹Çø Board of Regents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) recently contributed $250,000 to increase endowed scholarships for American Indian students at Âé¶¹Çø College. This grant funding will be added to the existing SMSC endowment fund, which was established in the mid-1990s. The scholarship is utilized to recruit and retain talented American Indian students who are enrolled or are <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-spring-2014"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4027,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions\/4027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}