{"id":26974,"date":"2015-04-12T15:08:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T19:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=26974"},"modified":"2015-04-12T15:08:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T19:08:36","slug":"oacta-law-student-diversity-scholarship-applications-due-by-april-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2015\/04\/12\/oacta-law-student-diversity-scholarship-applications-due-by-april-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"OACTA Law Student Diversity Scholarship &#8211; applications due by April 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OACTA 2015 Law Student Diversity Scholarships Available  <\/p>\n<p>OACTA&#8217;s annual Law Student Diversity Scholarship program is open to incoming second and third-year African American, Hispanic, Asian, Pan Asian and Native American students enrolled at Ohio law schools. Incoming second and third-year female law students enrolled at Ohio law schools are also eligible regardless of race or ethnicity.  Other criteria for the scholarship include:<br \/>\n\u2022\tAcademic achievement in law school;<br \/>\n\u2022\tProfessional interest in civil defense practice; and<br \/>\n\u2022\tService to community and to the cause of diversity;<br \/>\nUp to three (3) scholarships in the amount of $1,250 each will be awarded to successful applicants.  Applicants are required to submit an application, law school transcript and a cover letter addressing the following:  academic, personal and professional accomplishments, and why they should be selected as a recipient of the scholarship.  Applicants may submit up to three letters of recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>The completed application and all other requested material must be received by April 17, 2015.   Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.  <\/p>\n<p>Winners will be announced in June and recognized at the OACTA Annual Meeting in November.  <\/p>\n<p>Applications are available here: https:\/\/mlsvc01-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/b9c9cff2101\/4dc82881-36b0-4b4e-94cf-f798a87683ce.pdf <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OACTA 2015 Law Student Diversity Scholarships Available OACTA&#8217;s annual Law Student Diversity Scholarship program is open to incoming second and third-year African American, Hispanic, Asian, Pan Asian and Native American students enrolled at Ohio law schools. Incoming second and third-year female law students enrolled at Ohio law schools are also eligible regardless of race or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2015\/04\/12\/oacta-law-student-diversity-scholarship-applications-due-by-april-17th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OACTA Law Student Diversity Scholarship &#8211; applications due by April 17th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26978,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26974\/revisions\/26978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}