{"id":9718,"date":"2011-07-22T03:07:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T03:07:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-22T03:07:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T03:07:14","slug":"-1-2-million-Scholarships-given-to-Asian-American-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9718","title":{"rendered":"$1.2 million Scholarships given to Asian American students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Asian &#038; Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF) recently doled out $1.2 million to more than 500 Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students<\/strong> for the 2011-12 school year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>According to an article on Asianjournal.com, more than half the students live at or below the poverty level and all the awardees participate<\/strong> in community service and show leadership skills.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOur primary focus is to provide scholarships to AAPI students and offer category_idance, mentorship, and programs to facilitate their academic success, leadership, and professional growth,\u201d APIASF President and Executive Director Neil Horikoshi said in the article. \u201cIt\u2019s a historic occasion for APIASF to be able to give over $1 million worth of awards in a single year to support our students through our general APIASF Scholarship Program.  We want to always be able to serve as a clearinghouse of funding to support AAPI high school and college students in their educational endeavors.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>And this scholarship money comes at a good time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a recent report\u2014<strong>Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, The College Completion Agenda, and America\u2019s Commitment to Equity and Diversity\u2014the AAPI population<\/strong> increased faster than any other major racial group between 2000 and 2010, and their college enrollment is expected to increase by 30 percent between 2010 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The report was released by the National Commission on <strong>Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education (CARE) in partnership with APIASF.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the full story about the APIASF scholarships at Asianjournal.com and the full story about the report at APIASF.com.<br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian &#038; Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF) recently doled out $1.2 million to more than 500 Asian American and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Asian &#038; 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