{"id":1390,"date":"2010-09-09T11:05:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T16:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T17:59:19","slug":"not-your-typical-first-day-of-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2010\/09\/09\/not-your-typical-first-day-of-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Not your typical first day of college"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"city_service\"On the day before fall semester classes began, incoming first-year and transfer students participated in service projects in the neighborhoods that surround Augsburg’s campus.<\/p>\n

City Service Day has become an Augsburg tradition that not only helps students learn about the community but also introduces them to organizations where they can continue to serve and learn throughout their education.<\/p>\n

The Star Tribune’s Jenna Ross followed AugSem X to Matthews Community Center and talked with Auggies including our own President Pribbenow. Read the front-page story: Starting out and giving back.<\/p>\n

More than 400 students and student leaders, faculty, and President’s Cabinet members volunteered at 23 schools and community organizations. They contributed more than 1,500 service hours by cleaning, painting, gardening, and more at the following sites:<\/p>\n

Simpson Shelter<\/p>\n

In the Heart of the Beast Theatre<\/p>\n

Korean Peace Garden<\/p>\n

Brian Coyle Community Center<\/p>\n

Dowling Environmental School<\/p>\n

Holy Rosary Church<\/p>\n

Matthew’s Park and Recreation Center<\/p>\n

Seward Montessori School<\/p>\n

People’s Center<\/p>\n

Trinity Congregation<\/p>\n

Bedlam Theatre<\/p>\n

Cedar Cultural Center<\/p>\n

Waite House<\/p>\n

Rose Ensemble<\/p>\n

MN Center for Media Arts<\/p>\n

MN Indian Women’s Resource Center<\/p>\n

Seward Community Support Program<\/p>\n

Bethany Lutheran Church<\/p>\n

Midtown Greenway Coalition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the day before fall semester classes began, incoming first-year and transfer students participated in service projects in the neighborhoods that surround Augsburg’s campus. City Service Day has become an Augsburg tradition that not only helps students learn about the community but also introduces them to organizations where they can continue to serve and learn …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[309,611,673,1467,1832],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-augsem","tag-city-service-day","tag-community-service","tag-jenna-ross","tag-matthews-community-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11782,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/11782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}