{"id":6921,"date":"2021-02-04T09:33:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=6921"},"modified":"2021-02-04T09:33:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:33:48","slug":"call-for-applications-bc-indigenous-student-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-6921","title":{"rendered":"Call for Applications: BC Indigenous Student Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Irving K. Barber British Columbia Scholarship Society has established an award program for Indigenous students pursuing post-secondary education in BC. They are available to students who identify as Indigenous, defined as First Nations (Status or Non-Status), M\u00e9tis or Inuit. All are renewable in order to provide sustained funding over multiple years.\u00a0 Renewable awards of $5,000 per year are available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eligibility<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You are First Nations (Status or Non-Status), Inuit or M\u00e9tis;<\/li>\n<li>You are a resident of British Columbia, defined as having a primary residence in the province for at least 12 consecutive months prior to the date of full-time enrollment in the program for which the award is applied for;<\/li>\n<li>You are a Canadian citizen, permanent resident (landed immigrant), convention refugee, or protected person living in Canada;<\/li>\n<li>You are planning to study at a BC public post-secondary institution, or Indigenous post-secondary institution;<\/li>\n<li>Your course of study will be no less than two semesters in length and will commence sometime between the dates of May 1, 2021 and April 30, 2022;<\/li>\n<li>You will be registered as a full-time student*, as defined by the institution you will be attending (usually 60% or more of a full course load).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*Exceptions may apply to applicants who are prevented from studying full-time for medical reasons or disabilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application Deadline<\/strong>: 30 April 2021<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, please see:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ikbbc.ca\/indigenous-awards\/about-this-award\/\">https:\/\/www.ikbbc.ca\/indigenous-awards\/about-this-award\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Irving K. Barber British Columbia Scholarship Society has established an award program for Indigenous students pursuing post-secondary education in BC. They are available to students who identify as Indigenous, defined as First Nations (Status or Non-Status), M\u00e9tis or Inuit. All are renewable in order to provide sustained funding over multiple years.\u00a0 Renewable awards of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6922,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions\/6922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}