{"id":3436,"date":"2012-09-27T11:45:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T15:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/eoc-graduate-honored-with-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2012-09-27T11:45:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T15:45:27","slug":"eoc-graduate-honored-with-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/eoc-graduate-honored-with-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"EOC Graduate Honored With Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>EOC graduate Mfon Bassey received a $500 scholarship from the New York State Black, Latino and Asian Legislative Caucus during a reception held at the Albany EOC on Sept. 25, 2012. Bassey, originally from Nigeria, came to the United States in 2009.\u00a0 She completed EOC\u2019s Nursing Assistant program in January 2011 and was hired by St. Peter\u2019s Healthcare partners.<\/p>\n<p>With the assistance of EOC\u2019s College Connections department, Bassey applied to Hudson Valley Community College.\u00a0 The College Connections department then encouraged Bassey to apply for scholarships, including the inaugural New York State Black, Latino and Asian Legislative Caucus award, which was provided with the assistance from Syracuse Assemblyman Sam Roberts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scholarship was for someone who showed initiative, but who didn\u2019t go the regular route, they had struggled in life, but were determined to do well,\u201d explained the Honorable Carolyn McLaughlin, President of the Albany Common Council.\u00a0 McLaughlin presented the award to Bassey during the Sept. 25 awards reception.<\/p>\n<p>Selection criteria for the scholarship included the completion of some college work, with plans to continue, merit, character and academics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EOC is a place where you can\u2019t go wrong,\u201d Bassey said, \u201cI have seen people helped in class and with other services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/EOCphoto1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23270\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/EOCphoto1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:45:27 +0000 by\u00a0k.bradley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; EOC graduate Mfon Bassey received a $500 scholarship from the New York State Black, Latino and Asian Legislative Caucus&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accolades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}