{"id":47892,"date":"2019-09-18T14:49:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=47892"},"modified":"2019-09-18T14:50:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:50:01","slug":"donors-provide-310000-in-scholarships-for-robbins-college-of-business-and-entrepreneurship-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=47892","title":{"rendered":"Donors provide $310,000 in scholarships for Robbins College of Business and Entrepreneurship Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adding up to just over $310,000 in support from donors, 274 scholarships were awarded to business students for the 2019-2020 academic year at Fort Hays State University. <br><br> The scholarships were awarded at last week\u2019s annual W.R. and Yvonne Robbins College of Business and Entrepreneurship scholarship awards ceremony. <br><br> \u201cThe support of these donors assures that Fort Hays State University continues to be a leader in business and entrepreneurship education by attracting and retaining the next generation of innovators and problem solvers,\u201d said Dr. Melissa Hunsicker Walburn, Interim dean of the college and one of several speakers at the event. <br><br> \u201cThrough this shared commitment and partnership with friends and supporters external to the university, we achieve excellence in business education.\u201d <br><br> \u201cWe extend our gratitude to the former students, organizations, businesses, and other friends of the Robbins College of Business and Entrepreneurship who have made possible these scholarships,\u201d she said. <br><br> \u201cMy first association with the business college scholarship ceremony was in 1984 as a student who received an award.\u201d said Linda Kepka, senior administrative assistant for FHSU\u2019s Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting. <br><br> \u201cThe Robbins College of Business and Entrepreneurship is awarding five times as many scholarships now as we did 30 years ago.\u201d <br><br> Also praising the scholarship program was W.R. Robbins, for whom the business college is named. <br><br> \u201cEach year the Robbins College of Business and Entrepreneurship list of donors for student scholarships continues to increase along with the dollar amount given,\u201d he said. <br><br> \u201cI feel this indicates that the quality of education our students are receiving is superior and they and their family have the desire to pay it forward to the next generation. I am so honored to be a part of this scholarship program.\u201d <br><br> Learn how you can support students within FHSU\u2019s Robbins College of Business and Entrepreneurship by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.fhsu.edu\/\">https:\/\/foundation.fhsu.edu<\/a> or by contacting the FHSU Foundation at 785-628-5620 or <a href=\"mailto:foundation@fhsu.edu\">foundation@fhsu.edu<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Adding up to just over $310,000 in support from donors, 274 scholarships were awarded to business students for the 2019-2020 academic year&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47893,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47892\/revisions\/47893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}