{"id":5876,"date":"2015-06-01T20:28:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T20:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5876"},"modified":"2017-12-15T21:09:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:09:02","slug":"somalidebateinitiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/01\/somalidebateinitiative\/","title":{"rendered":"KARE 11 features Urban Debate&#8217;s Somali Debate Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/04\/kare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/04\/kare.jpg\" alt=\"kare\" width=\"207\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a>Minnesota&#8217;s first-ever Somali Debate Initiative got underway on May 27 when middle- and high-school students from Minneapolis and St. Paul schools discussed the topic of remittances to Somalia. The initiative, part of the College&#8217;s successful Minnesota Urban Debate League, was developed in partnership with members of the Somali community. Learn more about the program in the KARE 11 story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiiraan.com\/news4\/2015\/May\/99830\/augsburg_hosts_first_debate_tournament_for_somali_students.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Augsburg hosts first debate tournament for Somali students<\/a>, and\u00a0that features MnUDL staff members <strong>Amy Cram-Helwich, executive director of MNUDL, Awale Osman &#8217;15, community outreach intern,<\/strong>\u00a0and students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota&#8217;s first-ever Somali Debate Initiative got underway on May 27 when middle- and high-school students from Minneapolis and St. Paul schools discussed the topic of remittances to Somalia. The initiative, part of the College&#8217;s successful Minnesota Urban Debate League, was developed in partnership with members of the Somali community. Learn more about the program in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[849,3636,3227,3265,3266,3632],"class_list":["post-5876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-in-the-news","tag-diversity","tag-inclusion","tag-kare-11","tag-minnesota-urban-debate-league","tag-mnudl","tag-somali-debate-initiative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876","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\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5876"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8052,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876\/revisions\/8052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}