{"id":82069,"date":"2025-12-05T00:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/82069\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T00:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:39:06","slug":"new-scholarship-honors-fallen-deputy-phillip-campas-to-support-csu-bakersfield-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/82069\/","title":{"rendered":"New scholarship honors fallen Deputy Phillip Campas, to support CSU Bakersfield students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A new annual<a href=\"https:\/\/news.csub.edu\/new-csub-scholarship-honors-fallen-deputy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> scholarship established by the Phillip Campas Foundation <\/a>will be available at CSU Bakersfield starting next year to support students with backgrounds in public safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels amazing to be able to do this,\u201d said Phillip\u2019s wife, Christina Campas. \u201cI\u2019m hoping we can help these students succeed. We want to be a light for them in any way that we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CSUB is accepting applications for the scholarship through December 7. It is open to both current and incoming students studying in public safety, such as public service or community outreach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this scholarship opportunity, CSUB and our students \u2014 in a small way \u2014 get to be a part of Deputy Campas\u2019 legacy of family, community, and country support,\u201d said Vice President for University Advancement Heath Niemeyer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/search?find=Kern%20County%20Sheriff%20Deputy%20Phillip%20Campas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phillip Campas <\/a>worked in the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office for five years, serving as a SWAT operator, recruit training officer, and range master in addition to his regular duties as a deputy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Deputy Phillip Campas photo courtesy of the Kern County Sheriff's Office.{ }\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/50d382f1-7c02-4185-ae29-537606dd2cf1-large16x9_DeputyPhillipCampas.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Deputy Phillip Campas photo courtesy of the Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.{ }<\/p>\n<p>In July 2021, Deputy Campas was killed in the line of duty while responding to a domestic violence call in a Wasco neighborhood. Deputy Campas was struck by gunfire while entering a home with a SWAT team formation in an attempt to suppress an active shooter who had executed family members and was holding an additional family hostage.<\/p>\n<p>He previously served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 10 years. Phillip was deployed to Afghanistan as a machine gunner and later served as a senior drill instructor at Parris Island, South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Students can apply for the <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/csub.scholarshipuniverse.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">scholarship here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A new annual scholarship established by the Phillip Campas Foundation will be available at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-82069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}