{"id":217,"date":"2015-06-11T19:39:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T19:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neel-schaffer.local\/?page_id=217"},"modified":"2024-10-09T20:15:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T01:15:42","slug":"minority-scholarship-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.neel-schaffer.com\/our-careers\/minority-scholarship-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority Scholarship Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About the Program<\/h2>\n<p>Neel-Schaffer established a minority scholarship program for engineering students in 1990 and has since awarded more than $300,000 in scholarships to students across the South.<\/p>\n<p>The first recipient of the Neel-Schaffer minority scholarship, Contena Carothers Alexander, graduated from the University of Mississippi with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and is now the Transportation Program Management Officer for the Department of Public Works in the City of Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>One of the minority scholarship recipients who currently works for the firm is Theresa Carter, PE, a Transportation Project Manager in the Birmingham, Alabama office.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Neel-Schaffer minority scholarship program, please contact one of our recruiters; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neel-schaffer.com\/who-we-are\/staff-directory\/chamar-mcdonald\/\">Chamar McDonald<\/a> (pictured left) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neel-schaffer.com\/who-we-are\/staff-directory\/william-j-scott\/\">William Scott<\/a> are out on campuses and at career fairs throughout the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Program Neel-Schaffer established a minority scholarship program for engineering students in 1990 and has since awarded more than &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7741,"parent":59,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-minority-scholarship.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-217","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Minority Scholarship Program - Neel-Schaffer Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In 1990, Neel-Schaffer established a minority scholarship program for engineering students. 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