Provide for select Filipinos to receive education in the United States
Status: Expired
The Pensionado Act is Act Number 854 of the Philippine Commission, which passed on 26 August 1903. Passed by the United States Congress, it established a scholarship program for Filipinos to attend school in the United States. The program has roots in pacification efforts following the Philippine–American War. It hoped to prepare the Philippines for self-governance and present a positive image of Filipinos to the rest of the United States. Students of this scholarship program were known as pensionados.
From the initial 100 students, the program provided education in the United States to around 500 students. They would go on to be influential members of the Philippine society, with many of the alumni of the program going on to work for the government in the Philippine Islands. Due to their success, other immigrants from the Philippines followed to be educated in the United States, in excess of 14,000. Many of these non-pensioned students ended up permanently residing in the United States. In 1943, the program ended. It was the largest American scholarship program until the Fulbright Program was established in 1948.
During World War II, Japan initiated a similar program during its occupation of the Philippines, named nampo tokubetsu ryugakusei. Following the War, and Philippine independence, Filipino students continued to come to the United States utilizing government scholarships.
The PensionadoAct is Act Number 854 of the Philippine Commission, which passed on 26 August 1903. Passed by the United States Congress, it established...
Philippines. The word pensionado originated with the Spanish language. It means to receive pension from the government. As the PensionadoAct started in 1903...
start of World War I. The PensionadoAct (1903) established and legislated a formalized framework to send Filipino pensionados (government subsidized scholars)...
began immigrating to Michigan in 1903, following the adoption of the PensionadoAct. After seeing the success of the program, other Filipinos began to self-fund...
Women's University. Benitez was born in Manila to Conrado Benitez, a pensionado to the United States and a member of the 1935 Constitutional Convention...
students (and one of three women), known as pensionados, selected by the Philippine government under the PensionadoAct to study overseas in the United States...
Filipino students, known as pensionados, to attend US colleges and universities. However, in 1934, the Tydings–McDuffie Act, which promised independence...
first sitting mayor, Santiago Artiaga (1878–1962), one of the first pensionados (state scholars) during the American occupation, was already a colorful...
amores. In 2004, she was part of the cast of the television series Los pensionados. From 2004 to 2005, she was the protagonist of the youth television series...
2004, he was one of the main protagonists of the television series Los pensionados. From 2005 to 2009, he hosted an entertainment program in which two teams...
Philippines. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 92–93. ISBN 9780313307911. The pensionado program continued until the outbreak of World War II. Grace Mateo (2001)...
the turn of the century on 1933, during the American occupation, the Pensionado[citation needed] and the members of the AiAAF joined forces hand-in-hand...
their last shows in 2015. Bennie Jolink continued as a member of De Pensionado's with whom he recorded a studio-album. He retired from performing in 2016...
first Filipinos to move to the United States were mostly limited to pensionados, well-educated young men from privileged families looking to send their...
go back home to contribute to Filipino society. Starting in 1901, the pensionado program allowed for Filipino students to gain an education from an American...
by working on a railroad gang, washing dishes, and through a partial pensionado support from the Philippine Government. He finished the bachelor's degree...
Americans dates back to the beginning of the 20th Century. In 1905, pensionados at University of California, Berkeley published The Filipino Students'...
1928. On their return Evangelista organized the first batch of Filipino pensionados to study in the University of Toilers of the East, in Moscow. Two more...
included Filipinos who enlisted as sailors of the United States Navy, pensionados, and laborers. During the Great Depression, Filipino Americans became...
ISBN 978-1-4129-0948-8. Retrieved June 7, 2011. Included in this group were Pensionados, Sakadas, Alaskeros, and Manongs primarily from the Illocos and Visayas...
Francisco Benitez Known educator and author. One of the first Filipino pensionado of the United States in 1905. Francisco Benitez Memorial School, Pagsanjan...
in order to maintain a colonialist view of Filipinos as uncivilized. Pensionados through the newly initiated U.S. governmental educational program who...
(2000) Poné a Francella (2001 - 2002) Franstrack (2003) Los machos (2004) Pensionados (2004) La niñera (2004) Los Roldán (2005) Casados con hijos (2005-2006)...
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