{"id":7152,"date":"2016-06-08T16:46:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T16:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=7152"},"modified":"2021-07-22T05:23:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T05:23:32","slug":"mark-lukitsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/08\/mark-lukitsch\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg&#8217;s campus is a fit for incoming student Mark Lukitsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7155\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7155 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/06\/link925_n-e1465404052374-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"link925_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/06\/link925_n-e1465404052374-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/06\/link925_n-e1465404052374.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Links and tunnels help make Augsburg&#8217;s campus more accessible.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A recent South Washington County Bulletin article featured\u00a0incoming Augsburg College student <strong>Mark Lukitsch<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0accomplishments and high school experience. The story\u00a0describes Lukitsch as one of Park High School&#8217;s most well-known students. He has congenital muscular dystrophy, which the article said &#8220;limits his fine-motor skills but not his ambition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lukitsch\u00a0was influential in creating positive changes to a local stadium&#8217;s wheelchair-accessible seating options, and he chose to continue his education at Augsburg College, in part, because of the urban campus features tunnels, above-ground links, and a wheelchair-friendly layout that make it\u00a0more accessible. He plans to pursue a communication studies degree and will continue to study alongside Avery, his service dog who can open classroom doors and perform other tasks that allow him to live more independently.<\/p>\n<p>Read &#8220;Park High School graduate profile: Mark Lukitsch ready to move forward&#8221; on the Bulletin website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent South Washington County Bulletin article featured\u00a0incoming Augsburg College student Mark Lukitsch&#8216;s\u00a0accomplishments and high school experience. The story\u00a0describes Lukitsch as one of Park High School&#8217;s most well-known students. He has congenital muscular dystrophy, which the article said &#8220;limits his fine-motor skills but not his ambition.&#8221; Lukitsch\u00a0was influential in creating positive changes to a local &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[3871,849,3636,3870,3869,3872],"class_list":["post-7152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-students","tag-accessibility","tag-diversity","tag-inclusion","tag-mark-lukitsch","tag-south-washington-county-bulletin","tag-urban-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152","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=7152"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10606,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7152\/revisions\/10606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}