{"id":4607,"date":"2015-04-06T21:40:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=4607"},"modified":"2016-02-24T22:13:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T22:13:52","slug":"bush-foundation-grant-supports-diversity-in-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2015\/04\/06\/bush-foundation-grant-supports-diversity-in-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Foundation grant supports diversity in teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg College\u2019s Department of Education was awarded a $150,000\u00a0grant from the Bush Foundation through its Teacher Effectiveness\u00a0Initiative. The award will be used to fund a project that builds the\u00a0College\u2019s capacity to recruit and support students of color as they work\u00a0toward a degree in teaching. Augsburg was one of only five higher\u00a0education institutions selected to receive this one-time award.<\/p>\n<p>Augsburg\u2019s Department of Education Chair and Associate\u00a0Professor Margaret Finders will lead the project in partnership\u00a0with Minneapolis Public Schools, Minneapolis Community and\u00a0Technical College, and St. Paul Public Schools. This team will\u00a0create a coordinated, sustainable infrastructure that will\u00a0recruit high-quality teacher candidates and reduce attrition.\u00a0This infrastructure will help the partner institutions engage\u00a0in proactive recruitment of teacher candidates of color\u00a0from multiple entry points, improve experiences for teacher\u00a0candidates of color, and foster smooth transitions into teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg College\u2019s Department of Education was awarded a $150,000\u00a0grant from the Bush Foundation through its Teacher Effectiveness\u00a0Initiative. The award will be used to fund a project that builds the\u00a0College\u2019s capacity to recruit and support students of color as they work\u00a0toward a degree in teaching. Augsburg was one of only five higher\u00a0education institutions selected to receive <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-4607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-spring-2015"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4608,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions\/4608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}