{"id":8605,"date":"2018-08-29T19:31:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T19:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8605"},"modified":"2020-10-15T07:06:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T07:06:59","slug":"kstp-tv-report-on-the-river-semester-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2018\/08\/29\/kstp-tv-report-on-the-river-semester-program\/","title":{"rendered":"KSTP documents River Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8606\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-24-at-2.53.01-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8606\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-24-at-2.53.01-PM-300x168.png\" alt=\"Joe Underhill, the River Semester program director\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-24-at-2.53.01-PM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-24-at-2.53.01-PM.png 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Underhill, River Semester program director.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fifteen Auggies are paddling down the Mississippi River for 100 days while learning about history, politics, and the environment for 16 credits.<\/p>\n<p>An experiential education is a trademark of an Augsburg education. &#8220;We do this because we think this is the best way to learn both about the Mississippi River and to learn in general about what&#8217;s going on out in the world,&#8221; said River Semester program director Joe Underhill, who will be teaching along the way.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">For many students, this is their first time camping. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never\u00a0camped,\u00a0never canoed in my life. I&#8217;m nervous because it&#8217;s out of my comfort zone but I&#8217;m very excited to see what it&#8217;s going to be like&#8221;, student\u00a0<\/span>Kristy Ornelas told KSTP.<\/p>\n<p>This is Augsburg&#8217;s second River Semester. The first was in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Watch full report on KSTP&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen Auggies are paddling down the Mississippi River for 100 days while learning about history, politics, and the environment for 16 credits. An experiential education is a trademark of an Augsburg education. &#8220;We do this because we think this is the best way to learn both about the Mississippi River and to learn in general &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605","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=8605"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10268,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}