{"id":38,"date":"2020-02-06T00:17:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T00:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2020-02-10T18:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T18:23:22","slug":"mount-vernon-leadership-fellows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/scholarship-details\/mount-vernon-leadership-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Vernon Leadership Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\"><strong>Overview: <\/strong>The Mount Vernon Leadership Fellows program is a highly selective six-week summer program for rising college juniors who want to spend their summer building leadership skills, networking with established leaders in Washington, DC, and developing a personalized capstone project that allows them to take action as a leader in an area they are passionate about.\u00a0 Fellows have the opportunity to meet and learn from current leaders in government, journalism, business, and nonprofit sectors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ms-rteElement-P\">Students who meet the following criteria are encouraged to apply:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently enrolled college sophomore in good standing<\/li>\n<li>Proven leadership ability and involvement<\/li>\n<li>All majors welcome<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated interest in proposed capstone project<\/li>\n<li>Cumulative GPA of 3.4 or higher<\/li>\n<li>Current U.S. Citizen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For more information: <\/strong>Visit the <a title=\"Mount Vernon Leadership Fellows\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mountvernon.org\/site\/leadershipfellows\/\">Mount Vernon Leadership Fellows website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview: The Mount Vernon Leadership Fellows program is a highly selective six-week summer program for rising college juniors who want to spend their summer building leadership skills, networking with established leaders in Washington, DC, and developing a personalized capstone project that allows them to take action as a leader in an area they are passionate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}