{"id":13388,"date":"2015-02-02T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T23:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13388"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:07:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:07:50","slug":"google-pledges-3-million-to-singularity-university-to-make-graduate-studies-program-free-of-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/google-pledges-3-million-to-singularity-university-to-make-graduate-studies-program-free-of-charge","title":{"rendered":"Google Pledges $3 Million to Singularity University to Make Graduate Studies Program Free of Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singularity Hub<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P0\">Google, a long-time supporter of Singularity University (SU), <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityu.org\/press\/singularity-university-announces-google-support-for-increased-global-access-and-diversity-in-tech\/\">has agreed<\/a> to a two-year, $3 million contribution to SU\u2019s flagship Graduate Studies Program (GSP). Google will become the program\u2019s title sponsor and ensure all successful direct applicants get the chance to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P1\">Held every summer, the GSP\u2019s driving goal is to positively impact the lives of a billion people in the next decade using exponential technologies. Participants spend a fast-paced ten weeks learning all they need to know for the final exam\u2014a chance to develop and then pitch a world-changing business plan to a packed house.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P2\">Google is, of course, no stranger to moon shot thinking and the value of world-shaking projects.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/01\/28\/google-pledges-3-million-to-singularity-university-to-make-graduate-studies-program-free-of-charge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singularity Hub Google, a long-time supporter of Singularity University (SU), has agreed to a two-year, $3 million contribution to SU\u2019s flagship Graduate Studies Program (GSP). Google will become the program\u2019s title sponsor and ensure all successful direct applicants get the chance to attend free of charge. Held every summer, the GSP\u2019s driving goal is to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46635,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388\/revisions\/46635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}