{"id":33834,"date":"2004-04-14T11:47:10","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=33834"},"modified":"2016-02-04T15:55:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T20:55:20","slug":"hearst-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/04\/14\/hearst-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"$100,000 Hearst grant strengthens scholarship support for Maine students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The William Randolph Hearst Foundations have awarded Bates College a second grant of $100,000 to support scholarships that help make it possible for Maine students to attend Bates.<\/p>\n<p>The New York City-based foundations made an initial $100,000 grant to Bates in 1999 to establish the endowed William Randolph Hearst Scholarship Fund. Since then, four young people from Maine have attended Bates with the fund&#8217;s support, and the first two Hearst Scholars are pursuing graduate studies.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As of fall 2003, 202 students currently enrolled at Bates were from Maine, about 12 percent of the college&#8217;s 1,746 students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scholarship support is a priority for Bates, and the need for additional funds for Maine students is particularly critical,&#8221; said Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen. &#8220;This grant will help us educate talented young people from Maine who would not be able to attend Bates otherwise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Maine continues to have one of the highest percentages of students who complete high school and one of the lowest rates for college completion,&#8221; Hansen added, &#8220;it&#8217;s imperative that Bates and Maine&#8217;s other institutions of higher education facilitate the educational attainment of Maine people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The William Randolph Hearst Foundations have awarded Bates College a second grant of $100,000 to support scholarships that help make it possible for Maine students to attend Bates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[32,17,11009],"tags":[11048,10043,10840,10872],"class_list":["post-33834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine-and-new-england","category-partners-public","category-the-college","tag-accessibility","tag-admission","tag-elaine-tuttle-hansen","tag-financial-aid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92870,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33834\/revisions\/92870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}