{"id":19568,"date":"2024-10-29T08:56:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T12:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=19568"},"modified":"2024-10-29T08:56:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T12:56:29","slug":"update-on-spark-scholars-formerly-known-as-young-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2024\/10\/29\/update-on-spark-scholars-formerly-known-as-young-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Spark Scholars (formerly known as Young Scholars)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilkes University has been proud to offer general education college courses to local high school students for years, and we&#8217;ve recently rebranded this program with a new name: <strong>Spark Scholars<\/strong> (formerly known as Young Scholars).<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder students who enroll as a Spark Scholar get a head start on college credits at a significantly lower cost. Spark Scholars can take up to two Wilkes courses per semester for only $50 per credit.<\/p>\n<p>Questions about the Spark Scholars Program can be directed to <a href=\"cassandra.dipippa@wilkes.edu\">Cassie Dipippa<\/a> or <a href=\"elizabeth.nicholas@wilkes.edu\">Liz Nicholas<\/a>. Learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilkes.edu\/admissions\/spark-scholars.aspx\">Spark Scholars Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilkes University has been proud to offer general education college courses to local high school students for years, and we&#8217;ve recently rebranded this program with a new name: Spark Scholars (formerly known as Young Scholars). As a reminder students who enroll as a Spark Scholar get a head start on college credits at a significantly&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2024\/10\/29\/update-on-spark-scholars-formerly-known-as-young-scholars\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update on Spark Scholars (formerly known as Young Scholars)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19618,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19568\/revisions\/19618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}