{"id":4610,"date":"2015-04-06T21:39:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=4610"},"modified":"2016-02-09T21:28:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T21:28:02","slug":"day-at-the-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2015\/04\/06\/day-at-the-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Day at the Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the 2013-14 academic year, more than 34 percent of all Augsburg undergraduates\u20141,054\u00a0students\u2014received Minnesota State Grants totaling more than $3.4 million. This February, Augsburg\u00a0College students and members of the larger Twin Cities community met at the Capitol with their\u00a0respective representatives and advocated for the Minnesota State Grant program.\u00a0Augsburg\u2019s StepUP\u00ae program, the EAST (East African Student to Teacher) program,\u00a0Student Financial Services, Multicultural Students Services, and Athletics partnered to\u00a0recruit and train students before the event. The students\u2019 agenda included a policy and\u00a0lobbying briefing with comments from House and Senate members representing Augsburg\u00a0and a breakfast with alumni legislators followed by a meeting with representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 2013-14 academic year, more than 34 percent of all Augsburg undergraduates\u20141,054\u00a0students\u2014received Minnesota State Grants totaling more than $3.4 million. This February, Augsburg\u00a0College students and members of the larger Twin Cities community met at the Capitol with their\u00a0respective representatives and advocated for the Minnesota State Grant program.\u00a0Augsburg\u2019s StepUP\u00ae program, the EAST (East African Student <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-4610","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\/4610","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=4610"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6441,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions\/6441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}