{"id":12486,"date":"2021-11-30T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=12486"},"modified":"2021-11-23T12:46:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:46:51","slug":"retired-teacher-assistant-principal-establishes-education-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2021\/people\/retired-teacher-assistant-principal-establishes-education-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired teacher, assistant principal establishes education scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Tech was always an important part of Kathy Ligon&#8217;s life. She grew up in Cookeville and when it came time to choose a college, there was never any doubt that she would choose Tech.\u00a0But while choosing a university was easy, choosing a major proved to be more difficult. Ligon initially enrolled at Tech as a psychology major. She then changed her major to business, but neither felt like the right fit, and her grades suffered as a result.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was actually put on probation and academically dismissed from the university,&#8221; Ligon said. &#8220;I was on the seven-and-a-half year plan. It took me seven and a half years to get my bachelor&#8217;s degree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ligon did some soul searching and decided to become a teacher. She begged the dean of the College of Education to give her a second chance, and he did. She re-enrolled at Tech and never looked back. Ligon would eventually earn three degrees from Tech and a doctorate from TSU. Now, she and her husband have established a scholarship for education majors to help others pursue the career that she loved.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story about Ligon&#8217;s 30-year career in education and learn more about the Katherine C. Ligon Scholarship here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tntech.edu\/univadv\/giving\/donorspotlight.php\">Donor Spotlight (tntech.edu)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Tech was always an important part of Kathy Ligon&#8217;s life. She grew up in Cookeville and when it came time to choose a college, there was never any doubt that she would choose Tech.\u00a0But while choosing a university was easy, choosing a major proved to be more difficult. Ligon initially enrolled at Tech as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23,24,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-12486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-people","8":"tag-facstaff","9":"tag-rs","10":"tag-student"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/11\/2021-11-23_619d17d25d53a_KathyLigon.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12491,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions\/12491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}