{"id":11399,"date":"2024-01-22T22:28:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T22:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11399"},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:28:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T22:28:43","slug":"auggie-basics-receives-grant-funding-to-support-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2024\/01\/22\/auggie-basics-receives-grant-funding-to-support-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Auggie Basics Receives Grant Funding to Support Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/01\/21-0219_09-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11400 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/01\/21-0219_09-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Two maroon Augsburg banners in winter. The left banner is an Auggie the eagle graphic and the right says &quot;We Are Called Auggies.&quot; \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/01\/21-0219_09-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/01\/21-0219_09-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/01\/21-0219_09-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/01\/21-0219_09-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Last week, the Minnesota Office of Higher Education awarded over $900,000 of Emergency Assistance for Postsecondary Students (EAPS) grant funding. As one of 10 Minnesota institutions to receive a grant, Augsburg University will provide additional campus-run emergency assistance to students through <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/basics\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Auggie Basics<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Auggie Basics is a series of programs designed to support the academic, social, and emotional aspects of students\u2019 lives. Assistance includes books, food, housing, emergency funding, support services, technology, transportation, and more. The main goal for both EAPS funding and Auggie Basics is to ensure students don\u2019t have to leave college in order to pay for unforeseen expenses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EAPS funding is expected to help an additional 1,400 students at awarded institutions. Augsburg Dean of Students Michael Grewe says, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our office typically receives hundreds of student requests for emergency funding each year, and this grant will provide aid to students for important resources.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohe.state.mn.us\/mPg.cfm?pageID=2616\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the full Minnesota Office of Higher Education news release.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Minnesota Office of Higher Education awarded over $900,000 of Emergency Assistance for Postsecondary Students (EAPS) grant funding. As one of 10 Minnesota institutions to receive a grant, Augsburg University will provide additional campus-run emergency assistance to students through Auggie Basics. Auggie Basics is a series of programs designed to support the academic, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3228,8],"tags":[4029,4030],"class_list":["post-11399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-kudos","category-students","tag-auggie-basics","tag-government-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11401,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions\/11401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}