{"id":56067,"date":"2020-09-01T09:35:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T14:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=56067"},"modified":"2020-09-01T09:35:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T14:35:55","slug":"fhsu-announces-2020-21-recipients-of-robbins-ambassador-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=56067","title":{"rendered":"FHSU announces 2020-21 recipients of Robbins Ambassador Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The W.R. and Yvonne Robbins College of Business and Entrepreneurship at Fort Hays State University is pleased to announce John Egan and Makenna Allen as recipients of the Robbins Ambassador Scholarship for the 2020-2021 academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Robbins\nAmbassador Scholarship is a prestigious opportunity available to undergraduate\nstudents majoring in business programs within FHSU\u2019s Robbins College of\nBusiness and Entrepreneurship. Students apply annually through the FHSU\nScholarship Services online portal. Finalists are narrowed through a\ncompetitive review process, which includes personal interviews. Students\nselected as recipients exemplify leadership, academic excellence,\nextracurricular involvement, and a desire to serve the college. Robbins\nAmbassadors may represent fellow students and the college at events such as\nTiger Friends and Family Day, Student Recognition Programs, and networking\nreceptions, as well as connect with prospective and current students through\nsocial media platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Egan is a\nsenior finance major with a minor in accounting and a certificate in insurance.\nHe grew up in Wichita and is a graduate of Collegiate High School. Egan is\ninvolved in Catholic Disciples, Economics Club, Finance Club, the FHSU Honors\nCollege, Alpha Kappa Psi, serves as President of Tiger Pals, and is a VIP\nAmbassador. Egan received the MIIAA Academic Excellence Award during his\nfreshman year as a member of the FHSU baseball team and has been on the Deans\nHonor Roll each semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am\nincredibly humbled to be a recipient of the Robbins Ambassador Award for the\n2020-2021 school year,\u201d Egan said. \u201cIt is because of the generosity of people\nlike W.R. and Yvonne Robbins that students at FHSU are able to thrive inside\nand outside the classroom. I look forward to representing the Robbins College\nof Business and Entrepreneurship&nbsp;in whatever capacity is&nbsp;possible\nthis year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allen is a\njunior pursuing a degree in digital marketing. She is from Highlands Ranch,\nColo. and is a graduate of Rock Canyon High School. She is a marketing\nassistant for the Department of Informatics, a sports reporter for Tiger Media\nNetwork, and a member of the FHSU Honor Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am so\nexcited to be representing the Robbins College of Business and Entrepreneurship\nas a Robbins Ambassador for the 2020-2021 school year,\u201d Allen said. \u201cDuring\nthis tumultuous year, it is very important that students understand the\nbenefits offered by the college and that those students have a voice in our\nFHSU community. I am honored to have the opportunity to be part of that\nprocess.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Muhammad\nChishty, dean of the Robbins College of Business and Entrepreneurship, adds\nthat the scholarships reward excellence and reinvest in the college\u2019s success\nby providing key connections among the Robbins Ambassadors and alumni, donors,\nfaculty, staff, and both current and prospective students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\ncongratulate John and Makenna for receiving the Robbins Ambassador Scholarship,\nand we\u2019re excited for their commitment to serve this important role in the\nupcoming year,\u201d Chishty said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Robbins\nAmbassador awards are made possible through the continued support of W.R. and\nYvonne Robbins, the namesake donors of FHSU\u2019s Robbins College of Business and\nEntrepreneurship. In his congratulations to the students, W.R. commented: \u201cI am\nso excited about the two students selected for the Robbins Ambassador\nScholarship. They both bring passion and commitment to the job as they\nrepresent the face of the Robbins College of Business and Entrepreneurship.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS The W.R. and Yvonne Robbins College of Business and Entrepreneurship at Fort Hays State University is pleased to announce John Egan and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56068,"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-56067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Robbins-Ambassadors_Image.png?fit=2215%2C1782&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56067","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=56067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56069,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56067\/revisions\/56069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}