{"id":5268,"date":"2015-12-03T21:04:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T21:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2016-02-05T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T16:27:00","slug":"river-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2015\/12\/03\/river-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Auggies make a splash with hands-on learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cThis is my ideal form of higher education. It\u2019s experiential, engaged with the community, interdisciplinary, physical, and mental.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>\u2014<\/strong><em>Joe Underhill,\u00a0Winona Daily News, September 15<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first-ever Augsburg College River Semester\u2014a three-and-a-half month program in which a dozen students, as well as faculty members, will travel almost 2,000 miles of the 2,350-mile Mississippi River from St. Paul to New Orleans while studying the arts, humanities, and sciences\u2014departed from St. Paul\u2019s Harriet Island on September 1.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the kickoff, the River Semester class, created and led by Associate Professor of Political Science <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/underhil\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Underhill<\/a><\/strong>, was joined by a group of nearly 100 community members who paddled in canoes from St. Paul to South St. Paul. Many media outlets covered the launch, and Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton proclaimed September 1 \u201cAugsburg College River Semester Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>WEB EXTRA:\u00a0<\/strong>Follow the crew on their journey at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/river\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">augsburg.edu\/river\/blog<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is my ideal form of higher education. It\u2019s experiential, engaged with the community, interdisciplinary, physical, and mental.\u201d\u00a0\u2014Joe Underhill,\u00a0Winona Daily News, September 15 The first-ever Augsburg College River Semester\u2014a three-and-a-half month program in which a dozen students, as well as faculty members, will travel almost 2,000 miles of the 2,350-mile Mississippi River from St. Paul <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":5316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,77],"class_list":["post-5268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-fall-2015","tag-river-semester"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268","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\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5910,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions\/5910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}