{"id":72948,"date":"2017-01-13T20:23:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T03:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/vantiv-donates-to-fort-lewis-college-computer-engineering-program\/"},"modified":"2017-01-14T03:23:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T03:23:46","slug":"vantiv-donates-to-fort-lewis-college-computer-engineering-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/vantiv-donates-to-fort-lewis-college-computer-engineering-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Vantiv donates to Fort Lewis College computer engineering program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ef891349-d951-4d35-9c6f-c4a652ce04b5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"872\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"Fort Lewis College is starting a new computer engineering degree in the fall. Vantiv donated $25,000 to the program this week.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Fort Lewis College is starting a new computer engineering degree in the fall. Vantiv donated $25,000 to the program this week.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Fort Lewis College\u2019s new computer engineering program, set to start in the fall, got a financial boost from Vantiv this week.<\/p>\n<p>Vantiv, a payment-processing company, donated $25,000 to the degree program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope this grant will help encourage more students to become interested in financial and payments technology and careers in this field,\u201d said Lori Stafford-Thomas, a spokeswoman for the company in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Vantiv supported the college last year when it applied for a grant from the U.S. Department of Education to create curriculum for its computer engineering degree program, and this grant was a continuation of those efforts, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we were designing the degree, there was a great degree of interest from local tech firms because they are always in need of talent,\u201d FLC spokesman Mitch Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>The donation has not been designated to fund anything specific within the program yet, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Enrollment in the program is not yet available, but he expects it will appeal to students already studying engineering and new students.<\/p>\n<p>Vantiv employees will also be volunteering to support the computer engineering students, an email from the company said<\/p>\n<p>Employees may speak to college students and help with capstone projects or hackathons, collaborative software development events, although plans are not final, Stafford-Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mshinn@durangoherald.com\">mshinn@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>offering will start in the fall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[132,5517],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-72948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-fort-lewis-college","tag-mercury-payment-systems"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72948","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=72948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72948"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=72948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}