{"id":2761,"date":"2025-12-03T14:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:04:49","slug":"opportunity-alert-2026-2027-ohio-foundation-of-independent-colleges-ofic-scholarship-program-osp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/opportunity-alert-2026-2027-ohio-foundation-of-independent-colleges-ofic-scholarship-program-osp\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity Alert: 2026-2027 Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges (OFIC) Scholarship Program (OSP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that the\u00a0<b>2026-2027 Ohio Scholars Program Application is now open<\/b>\u00a0and available to\u00a0<b>Ohio Wesleyan University students!<\/b>\u00a0<strong>Scholarship Eligibility Requirements*<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be an Ohio resident<\/li>\n<li>Be a full-time undergraduate student at an OFIC member campus during the full 2026-2027 academic year<\/li>\n<li>Maintain a minimum 2.8 cumulative GPA<\/li>\n<li>Submit a current, unofficial transcript within the application<\/li>\n<li>Complete FAFSA and submit your Submission Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>*Availability of awards is dependent on eligibility, competition, number of candidates, and continued donor support.<\/em>\u00a0500+ Scholarships &#8211; One Application! The deadline for submissions is\u00a0<b>May 1, 2026<\/b>. Students can find the application, along with all the required details, at the link below:\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofic.org\/apply\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.ofic.org\/apply&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1764874800888000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3gNrdzN1yfpjAJ0DFfwblA\">http:\/\/www.ofic.org\/apply<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office:<\/strong>\u00a0Ohio Wesleyan University<br \/>\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong>\u00a0Kevin Paskvan at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:kfpaskva@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kfpaskva@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that the\u00a02026-2027 Ohio Scholars Program Application is now open\u00a0and available to\u00a0Ohio Wesleyan University students!\u00a0Scholarship Eligibility Requirements* Be an Ohio resident Be a full-time undergraduate student at an OFIC member campus during the full 2026-2027 academic year Maintain a minimum 2.8 cumulative GPA Submit a current, unofficial transcript within the application [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[287,337,15],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-owu-resources","tag-application","tag-ohio-scholars-program","tag-scholarship"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}