{"id":20069,"date":"2018-02-23T14:56:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T14:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/ahs-scholarship-fund-award-application-now-open\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:15:17","slug":"ahs-scholarship-fund-award-application-now-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/ahs-scholarship-fund-award-application-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"AHS Scholarship Fund Award application now open"},"template":"","news_categories":[11,14],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-20069","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-student-news","news_categories-student-scholarships-and-awards"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p>The College of Applied Health Sciences is pleased to announce the\u00a0<strong>AHS Scholarship Fund award<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uic.academicworks.com\/users\/sign_in\">The\u00a0<strong>application<\/strong>\u00a0is available at the UIC SnAP<\/a><br \/>\nApplications are due\u00a0<strong>March 12, 2018<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Award Eligibility:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Currently enrolled, full-time, degree-seeking students in the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) who have a demonstrated financial need may apply for this scholarship. Nondegree 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<p><strong>Criteria:<br \/>\n<\/strong>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<p><strong>Award Amount (up to $1000):\u00a0<\/strong>The college will present up to 5 awards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application Form:<br \/>\n<\/strong>To apply for this award, you must be a full time student (12 credits for undergraduate or professional levels, 9 credits for graduate level) and submit the following:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Complete\u00a0<strong>both<\/strong>\u00a0the online\u00a0general application\u00a0and the\u00a0AHS Scholarship Fund Award\u00a0application questions through\u00a0<strong>UIC SnAP by\u00a0March 12<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Obtain a letter of support from a faculty member or advisor.<\/li>\n<li>Submit personal statement as required in application.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uic.academicworks.com\/users\/sign_in\"><strong>Application<\/strong>\u00a0form is available online<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Instructions<\/strong>\u00a0for completing application through UIC SnAP:<br \/>\n1) Sign In with Your Institution using your UIC email address and password<br \/>\n2) Click on \u201cApplications\u201d in menu bar<br \/>\n3) Click on \u201cGeneral Application\u201d<br \/>\n4) Complete required fields in the General Application<br \/>\n5) Upon completion, click on \u201cUpdate your Application\u201d<br \/>\n6) Next, click on \u201cOpportunities\u201d in menu bar.<br \/>\n7) Use the pull down menu to be sure that \u201cAll\u201d is highlighted and not just \u201cRecommended\u201d scholarships<br \/>\n8) Then you can search for \u201cAHS Scholarship Fund Award\u201d<br \/>\n9) Complete the required fields in the application: 1) personal statement, 2) letter of support, and 3) general question(s)<br \/>\n10) Upon completion, update\/save\/submit your application.<\/p>\n<p>Should you have any questions, please contact the AHS Student Affairs Office at\u00a0312-996-2079.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"Full-time AHS degree-seeking students apply for AHS Scholarship Fund Award","content_author":"Eileen Doran","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\/20069","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\/20069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27800,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20069\/revisions\/27800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=20069"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=20069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}