{"id":122,"date":"2017-12-02T16:55:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T16:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aig.alumni.virginia.edu\/echols\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2024-05-06T14:33:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T18:33:40","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/echols\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8220;The Echols Scholars Program is predicated upon the Jeffersonian ideal of freedom of inquiry and the development of critical thought. It offers special opportunities to undergraduates in the College of Arts &amp; Sciences whom we believe are among the University&#8217;s most intellectually curious, broad thinking, and self-motivated students and its most avid learners. 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