{"id":19759,"date":"2017-03-06T11:23:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T11:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/ahs-scholarship-fund-award-applications-open\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:38:45","slug":"ahs-scholarship-fund-award-applications-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/ahs-scholarship-fund-award-applications-open\/","title":{"rendered":"AHS Scholarship Fund Award applications open"},"template":"","news_categories":[11,14],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-19759","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-student-news","news_categories-student-scholarships-and-awards"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p>Currently enrolled, full-time, degree-seeking students at AHS\u00a0who have a demonstrated financial need may apply for this scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>Non-degree students, former students, students who previously received a UIC College of Applied Health Sciences Scholarship Fund, and students enrolled in other colleges at UIC are not eligible.<\/p>\n<h2>Criteria<\/h2>\n<p>This award is to recognize outstanding student leaders who maintain high academic achievement, have financial need and demonstrate a commitment to volunteerism within the UIC community and greater Chicagoland area (e.g., through participation in student organizations, campus activities and local nonprofits that strengthen the community).<\/p>\n<h2>Award amount<\/h2>\n<p>Up to $1000.\u00a0The college will present up to 5 awards.<\/p>\n<h2>Deadline<\/h2>\n<p>Applications are due <strong>November 15, 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Application<\/h2>\n<p>To apply, you must be a full time student (12 credits for undergraduate or professional levels, 9 credits for graduate level) and submit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The online general application and the AHS Scholarship Fund Award application questions through <a href=\"https:\/\/uic.academicworks.com\/users\/sign_in\">UIC SnAP<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0letter of support from a faculty member or advisor<\/li>\n<li>Personal statement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Instructions for completing application through UIC SnAP<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Sign in using your UIC email address and password<\/li>\n<li>Click on \u201cApplications\u201d in menu bar<\/li>\n<li>Click on \u201cGeneral Application\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Complete required fields in the General Application<\/li>\n<li>Upon completion, click on \u201cUpdate your Application\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Click on \u201cOpportunities\u201d in menu bar<\/li>\n<li>Use the pull down menu to be sure that \u201cAll\u201d is highlighted and not just \u201cRecommended\u201d scholarships<\/li>\n<li>Search for \u201cAHS Scholarship Fund Award\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Complete the required fields in the application: personal statement, letter of support, and general question(s)<\/li>\n<li>Upon completion, update\/save\/submit your application<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Should you have any questions, please contact the AHS Student Affairs Office at 312-996-2079.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"All full-time AHS students are encouraged to apply by November 15","content_author":"John Rodriguez","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"intro_text_image":false,"intro_text_image_alt_text":"","intro_text_image_caption":"","intro_text_image_attribution":"","news_include_thumbnail":false,"news_thumbnail_image":false,"news_thumbnail_image_alt_text":"","components":false,"SEO_meta_description":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/19759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/19759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27844,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/19759\/revisions\/27844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=19759"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=19759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}