{"id":810,"date":"2020-11-08T14:51:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T10:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=810"},"modified":"2020-11-09T12:34:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T08:34:54","slug":"convocation-honors-scholars-scholarship-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2020\/11\/08\/convocation-honors-scholars-scholarship-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Convocation honors scholars, scholarship winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Abeer Khan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 The Annual Honors Convocation at the American University of Sharjah was held online on Thursday to honor the achievements of students who were placed on the 2020 Chancellor\u2019s List as well as recipients of the Sheikh Khalifa scholarship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provost and Chief Academic Officer Juan Sanchez welcomed students, parents and guests. Sanchez said, \u201cThis year, through the marvel of technology, we come together virtually.\u201d He said he felt proud for what the students had achieved under \u201cparticularly difficult circumstances dictated by the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chancellor Kevin Mitchell extended his congratulations to the students being honored for their academic achievement. He announced the recipients of the Sheikh Khalifa scholarship. The scholarship recognizes \u201cacademic excellence, leadership potential, service to the community, demonstrated talent in the field of study and participation in extracurricular activities,\u201d said Mitchell.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Sanchez, the Chancellor\u2019s List is the highest academic recognition that a student at AUS can achieve.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abeer Khan UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 The Annual Honors Convocation at the American University of Sharjah was held online on Thursday to honor the achievements of students who were placed on the 2020 Chancellor\u2019s List as well as recipients of the Sheikh Khalifa scholarship.&nbsp; Provost and Chief Academic Officer Juan Sanchez welcomed students, parents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33],"class_list":{"0":"post-810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}