{"id":11343,"date":"2023-08-28T17:47:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11343"},"modified":"2023-08-28T17:47:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:47:24","slug":"star-tribune-highlights-river-semester-as-students-prepare-to-set-sail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/28\/star-tribune-highlights-river-semester-as-students-prepare-to-set-sail\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Tribune Highlights River Semester as Students Prepare to Set Sail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-28-at-12.40.20-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11344 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-28-at-12.40.20-PM-300x67.png\" alt=\"Star Tribune logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-28-at-12.40.20-PM-300x67.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-28-at-12.40.20-PM.png 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Star Tribune visited campus last week to spend some time with Associate Professor Joe Underhill and a handful of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/river\/\">River Semester<\/a> students as they sanded, primed, and assembled boats, part of final preparations to set sail down the Mississippi in early September.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cInstead of traveling to a foreign country, they&#8217;ll study on the Mississippi River, sailing, paddling, camping, taking classes and conducting research. The program, which launches this week, is open to college students across the country, and instructors say they know of no other quite like it,\u201d reported the Star Tribune.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe students will stop in places like St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans, meeting a wide variety of community organizers, researchers and other local residents along the way. They&#8217;ll talk about climate change, test water quality and measure biodiversity. They&#8217;ll learn how politics and racism affected development along the river \u2014 and how similar events are playing out today.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">River Semester is a program of Augsburg\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Center on Global Education and Experience<\/span><\/a>, which also operates Augsburg University study centers in Africa, Europe, and Latin America with an emphasis on social justice and community engagement. CGEE provide global experiences for students, institutions for higher education, non-profit organizations, businesses, churches, and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Read the full article: <a href=\"https:\/\/strib.gift\/dbr3kzwa8\"><span class=\"s4\">\u201cForget study abroad. These college students will spend the semester on the Mississippi River.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Star Tribune visited campus last week to spend some time with Associate Professor Joe Underhill and a handful of River Semester students as they sanded, primed, and assembled boats, part of final preparations to set sail down the Mississippi in early September.\u00a0 \u201cInstead of traveling to a foreign country, they&#8217;ll study on the Mississippi &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11345,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343\/revisions\/11345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}