{"id":5925,"date":"2015-06-19T17:39:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5925"},"modified":"2015-07-23T02:31:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T02:31:36","slug":"juventino-meza-minnpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/19\/juventino-meza-minnpost\/","title":{"rendered":"Juventino Meza &#8217;11 pens commentary for MinnPost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3918\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"MinnPost\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost-115x115.jpeg 115w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost.jpeg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>MinnPost recently published a commentary by Augsburg College alumnus <strong>Juventino Meza &#8217;11<\/strong> on\u00a0trends regarding Latinos and education in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Meza\u00a0is a founding member of NAVIGATE MN, a\u00a0leadership development program for immigrant young adults, and received the\u00a0Ohtli Award\u00a0in 2013, which is the Mexican government&#8217;s highest recognition for a civilian Mexican living outside Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>In the commentary, Meza outlined how an increasing proportion\u00a0of Latinos in\u00a0Minnesota&#8217;s demographic makeup calls for changes in educational instruction and administration.<\/p>\n<p>Read the story, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/community-voices\/2015\/06\/latino-education-gap-some-ideas-closing-it-and-thereby-improving-minnesotas\" target=\"_blank\">Latino education gap: some ideas for closing it \u2014 and thereby improving Minnesota&#8217;s future<\/a>,&#8221; on the MinnPost website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MinnPost recently published a commentary by Augsburg College alumnus Juventino Meza &#8217;11 on\u00a0trends regarding Latinos and education in Minnesota. Meza\u00a0is a founding member of NAVIGATE MN, a\u00a0leadership development program for immigrant young adults, and received the\u00a0Ohtli Award\u00a0in 2013, which is the Mexican government&#8217;s highest recognition for a civilian Mexican living outside Mexico. In the commentary, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[3661,849,902,3636,3660,1967],"class_list":["post-5925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","tag-demographics","tag-diversity","tag-education","tag-inclusion","tag-juventino-meza-11","tag-minnpost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5927,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions\/5927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}