{"id":45,"date":"2019-01-28T07:09:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T07:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/mcnairscholarsprogram\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2024-08-02T16:23:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T16:23:25","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/mcnairscholarsprogram\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The McNair Scholars Program, officially known as the Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program, is a federally funded TRiO program.\u00a0 The program is designed to prepare students for graduate study through involvement of research and other scholarly activities.\u00a0 This program, established in 1986 and named in honor of Challenger space shuttle astronaut Ronald E. McNair, Ph.D., is underwritten by the Department of Education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The goal of the McNair Scholars Program is to\u00a0increase the attainment of graduate degrees by\u00a0talented students in all disciplines from historically underrepresented segments of society.\u00a0 Program\u00a0participants are either first generation college\u00a0students who meet the financial eligibility OR be from an underrepresented group in graduate level\u00a0education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The McNair Scholars Program is dedicated to preserving\u00a0Dr. McNair\u2019s legacy of scholarship and achievements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/mcnairscholarsprogram\/eligibility-and-benefits\/\">Eligibility and Benefits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McNair Scholars Program, officially known as the Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program, is a federally funded TRiO program.\u00a0 The program is designed to prepare students for graduate study through involvement of research and other scholarly activities.\u00a0 This program, established in 1986 and named in honor of Challenger space shuttle astronaut Ronald E. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/mcnairscholarsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/mcnairscholarsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/mcnairscholarsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/mcnairscholarsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/mcnairscholarsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/mcnairscholarsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/mcnairscholarsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/mcnairscholarsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}