{"id":54064,"date":"2026-03-25T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/credit-union-of-colorado-foundation-invests-50000-in-community-college-scholarships\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:31:13","slug":"credit-union-of-colorado-foundation-invests-50000-in-community-college-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/credit-union-of-colorado-foundation-invests-50000-in-community-college-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Union of Colorado Foundation invests $50,000 in community college scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d04972c7-dc8d-4d3b-ad52-a88ee043b6b3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1333\" height=\"889\" alt=\"The Credit Union of Colorado Foundation has announced that it is investing $50,000 in community college scholarships. (Courtesy of PCC Southwest)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Credit Union of Colorado Foundation has announced that it is investing $50,000 in community college scholarships. (Courtesy of PCC Southwest)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Credit Union of Colorado Foundation will invest $50,000 over two years in scholarships and student success programs for Colorado community college students.<\/p>\n<p>The funding will support programs during the 2026-27 and 2027-28 school years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy investing in community college students, we are reducing financial barriers to education while helping develop the skilled workforce Colorado needs for long-term economic vitality,\u201d foundation President and CEO Phil Smith said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The scholarships will assist full-time and part-time students working toward a degree, certificate or transfer program who meet residency requirements across the Colorado Community College System. A portion of the funding will support Colorado Opportunity Scholarship Initiative \u2013 matched awards for students pursuing degrees in in-demand career pathways, the news release said.<\/p>\n<p>Applications for 2026-27 scholarships must be submitted by Sunday, April 26. Details and application materials are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/cccs.edu\/foundation\/apply-for-scholarships\/\" id=\"link-57dad4daeada0434e0bb557885e61a29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.cccs.edu\/foundation\/apply-for-scholarships\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications are open for the 2026-27 school year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[155,28,60,29,572,691],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-54064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-pueblo-community-college","tag-pueblo-community-college-southwest-campus"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63283,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54064\/revisions\/63283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54064"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=54064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}