{"id":8428,"date":"2018-05-29T18:39:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T18:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8428"},"modified":"2018-05-30T13:17:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:17:42","slug":"8428","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/29\/8428\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Nightly News highlights Augsburg&#8217;s StepUp collegiate recovery program"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8429\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-29-at-11.48.44-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8429 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-29-at-11.48.44-AM-300x168.png\" alt=\"Neil King walking across the stage on Commencement day\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-29-at-11.48.44-AM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-29-at-11.48.44-AM-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-29-at-11.48.44-AM.png 867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neil King &#8217;18 on <em>NBC Nightly News<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt<\/em>\u00a0reported about how Augsburg&#8217;s StepUp program has successfully helped students in recovery to graduate.<\/p>\n<p><em>NBC&#8217;<\/em>S Catie Beck talked with Neil King &#8217;18 about the support StepUP provided him while he was a full-time student at Augsburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to <em>NBC<\/em>, King began using drugs at age 14, and discovered Augsburg&#8217;s StepUp program four months into his recovery.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I really learned to believe in myself, and my skills and capabilities,&#8221; said King, who is now heading to graduate school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">StepUp Program Director Tamarah Gehlen also was interviewed by NBC. &#8220;We always say that no one should have to choose between recovery and a college education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">See full interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nightly-news\/video\/college-combats-drug-addiction-and-alcoholism-with-recovery-dorms-1243416643774\">NBC&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt\u00a0reported about how Augsburg&#8217;s StepUp program has successfully helped students in recovery to graduate. NBC&#8217;S Catie Beck talked with Neil King &#8217;18 about the support StepUP provided him while he was a full-time student at Augsburg. According to NBC, King began using drugs at age 14, and discovered Augsburg&#8217;s StepUp &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8428"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8448,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions\/8448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}