{"id":1487,"date":"2021-08-18T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2021-08-18T20:47:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T20:47:54","slug":"troy-university-offers-scholarships-as-part-of-covid-vaccination-incentive-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/08\/18\/troy-university-offers-scholarships-as-part-of-covid-vaccination-incentive-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy University offers scholarships as part of COVID vaccination incentive program."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the start of a new school year and COVID-19 cases on the rise across the country, <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a> is introducing a program to encourage students to get vaccinated, one that could help pay for their education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new vaccination incentive program will offer fully vaccinated students a chance to win one of a number of scholarships throughout the fall semester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students who register for the program will be eligible to win one of fourteen $1,000 scholarships, 28 $100 dining cards or two full meal scholarships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Every week we will draw for two thousand-dollar scholarships, four hundred-dollar meal cards and we&#8217;ll do that for five weeks,&#8221; says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/about-us\/leadership\/student-services-administration\/\">Senior Vice Chancellor for Student Services Sohail Agboatwala<\/a>. &#8220;Then in the final week, which will be in October, we will draw for the final four thousand-dollar scholarships, the final eight meal cards and the two big meal plans.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The registration for the program will open soon and the drawings will last over a month so that unvaccinated students can receive their full course of vaccinations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/student-life-resources\/groups-organizations\/student-government-association\/troy-sga\/\">Student Government Association<\/a> President Maxwell George says that he hopes this program will encourage unvaccinated students to go ahead and get their shots before the program starts.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In that time do get vaccinated because once it comes out you want to make sure you have both your vaccinations before all the raffling starts to happen,&#8221; says George. &#8220;Its super important to get vaccinated now so that once everything gets out and the details are set in stone you are ahead of the game, you got your vaccination.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To register for a COVID vaccination at Troy University&#8217;s Student Health Center you can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.troy.edu\/\">covid.troy.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Claudia&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the start of a new school year and COVID-19 cases on the rise across the country, Troy University is introducing a program to encourage students to get vaccinated, one that could help pay for their education. <\/p>\n<p>The new vaccination incentive program will offer fully vaccinated students a chance to win one of a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/08\/18\/troy-university-offers-scholarships-as-part-of-covid-vaccination-incentive-program\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[103,612,241,503,50,611,57,613],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-claudia-peppenhorst","tag-covid-scholarships","tag-covid-vaccinations","tag-maxwell-george","tag-sga","tag-sohail-agboatwala","tag-student-government-association","tag-student-services"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}