{"id":728695,"date":"2010-05-18T14:20:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"2494"},"modified":"2010-05-18T14:20:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:20:15","slug":"cbc-launches-grant-program-to-increase-stem-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/728695","title":{"rendered":"CBC launches grant program to increase STEM graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><SPAN class=heading3>Aired May 17, 2010 12:47 PM<\/SPAN><BR>KNDU TV<BR><A href=\"http:\/\/www.kndu.com\/global\/video\/flash\/popupplayer.asp?clipId1=4793551&amp;flvUri=&amp;partnerclipid=&amp;at1=News&amp;vt1=v&amp;h1=CBC%20launches%20new%20program&amp;d1=61466&amp;redirUrl=&amp;activePane=info&amp;LaunchPageAdTag=homepage&amp;clipFormat=flv&amp;rnd=58150578\" ><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" style=\"MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 0px\" height=\"28\" alt=\"Play video\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.columbiabasin.edu\/images\/1532462192007image_video.jpg?resize=95%2C28\" width=\"95\" border=0><\/A><\/P><P>Pasco, Wash;&#8211;The Office of Diversity and Math and Science at Columbia Basin College announced the launch of a $275,000 grant program.<\/P><P>CBC is one of&nbsp;four community colleges in Washington to receive the MESA Community College Program Grant.<\/P><P>MESA stands for math, engineering, science achievement.<\/P><P>The goal of the grant is to better prepare under-represented students for a bachelor&#8217;s degree and career in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.<\/P><P>And despite recent budget cuts, grants like this keep the college moving forward.<\/P><P>&#8220;That&#8217;s what grants allow us to do especially in these difficult times,&#8221; says Vice President of Diversity and Outreach Martin Valadez. &#8220;Grants become much more important because they allow us to continue some of that work that we&#8217;ve been wanting to do. So yes it&#8217;s really important.&#8221;<\/P><P>About 60 students each year will be eligible for the program. That&#8217;s nearly 250 students over the duration of the grant.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aired May 17, 2010 12:47 PMKNDU TVPasco, Wash;&#8211;The Office of Diversity and Math and Science at Columbia Basin College announced the launch of a $275,000 grant program.CBC is one of&nbsp;four community colleges in Washington to receive the MESA Community College Program Grant.MESA stands for math, engineering, science achievement.The goal of the grant is to better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33z9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}