{"id":7606,"date":"2017-05-30T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=7606"},"modified":"2017-05-30T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T17:30:10","slug":"auggies-advocate-at-state-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2017\/05\/30\/auggies-advocate-at-state-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Auggies advocate at state capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Augsburg College students recently visited the Minnesota State Capitol to\u00a0participate in advocacy events hosted by the Minnesota Private College\u00a0Council. First, in February, two of Augsburg\u2019s TRIO McNair Scholars took\u00a0part in a <strong>Private College Scholars at the Capitol<\/strong> event that promoted the role\u00a0undergraduate research plays in students\u2019 educational and professional\u00a0development. Then, in April, Auggies met with Minnesota representatives\u00a0and senators for <strong>Day at the Capitol<\/strong>.\u00a0These students advocated for\u00a0several programs, including\u00a0Minnesota State Grants, that help\u00a0undergraduates afford higher\u00a0education.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><strong>[Top Image &#8211; L to R]:<\/strong> Professor of Sociology <strong>Diane Pike<\/strong>\u00a0advised McNair Scholar <strong>Devin Wiggs \u201917<\/strong>, who\u00a0was invited to present his undergraduate\u00a0research project at Scholars at the Capitol.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg College students recently visited the Minnesota State Capitol to\u00a0participate in advocacy events hosted by the Minnesota Private College\u00a0Council. First, in February, two of Augsburg\u2019s TRIO McNair Scholars took\u00a0part in a Private College Scholars at the Capitol event that promoted the role\u00a0undergraduate research plays in students\u2019 educational and professional\u00a0development. Then, in April, Auggies met with <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-7606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-spring-summer-2017"],"wps_subtitle":"Augsburg partners with Minnesota Private College Council","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7991,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/revisions\/7991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}