Fifteen students from the 海角直播 and four partnership colleges \u2013 Eastern Florida State College, Lake-Sumter State College, Seminole State College of Florida and Valencia College \u2013 were honored as Johnson Scholars in a February 22 ceremony on the UCF campus.<\/p>\n
The students are the third class of Johnson Scholars, named in recognition of the scholarship program initiated by the Johnson Scholarship Foundation and geared toward DirectConnect to UCF students.<\/p>\n
\u201cKnowing someone is willing to invest in my academic career because they strongly believe that I will be successful one day is truly inspiring and motivational,\u201d said recipient Daniel Salas, a UCF student who received the scholarship while attending Valencia College. \u201cThe Johnson Scholarship has assisted me greatly through a significant portion of my undergraduate career as I continue to prepare myself for medical school.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Johnson Scholarship Foundation is a national, private foundation with a mission to assist deserving people in achieving higher education and a belief in education as a means to help people succeed in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifteen students from the 海角直播 and four partnership colleges \u2013 Eastern Florida State College, Lake-Sumter State College, Seminole State College of Florida and Valencia College \u2013 were honored as Johnson Scholars in a February 22 ceremony on the UCF campus. The students are the third class of Johnson Scholars, named in recognition of the scholarship program initiated…","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":76210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[1323,3703,4163,5030],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-76209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-community","tag-direct-connect-to-ucf","tag-philanthropy","tag-scholarships","tag-valencia-college"],"yoast_head":"\n