{"id":7672,"date":"2017-05-30T17:37:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T17:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=7672"},"modified":"2017-05-30T18:57:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T18:57:15","slug":"grow-connections-with-the-young-alumni-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2017\/05\/30\/grow-connections-with-the-young-alumni-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the Young Alumni Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Auggies who have graduated from any Augsburg degree program\u00a0in the past 10 years are invited to join the Young Alumni Council\u00a0and help plan year-round activities for recent alumni. In the past,\u00a0the Young Alumni Council has organized a Twins game outing, a\u00a0financial planning talk and social hour at Summit Brewery, and an\u00a0afternoon of ice skating at The Depot in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For Young Alumni Council Vice President <strong><span class=\"s1\">Evan Decker \u201912<\/span><\/strong>,\u00a0taking part in the group provides opportunities to practice valuable\u00a0life and business skills that he doesn\u2019t necessarily hone in his day-to-day work, such as planning meetings and events, communicating\u00a0with fellow alumni, speaking to groups, and networking. Serving the\u00a0council also is a way to stay engaged with the College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cSome people feel there aren\u2019t resources for them after\u00a0graduation, and that couldn\u2019t be further from the truth,\u201d Decker\u00a0said. \u201cThis group is here to help bridge that gap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To join the Young Alumni Council,\u00a0visit <a href=\"http:\/\/augsburg.edu\/alumni\">augsburg.edu\/alumni<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>[Top image]:<\/strong> Young Alumni Council members\u00a0<strong>Evan Decker &#8217;12<\/strong>, <strong>Lauren Grafelman &#8217;12<\/strong>, and <strong>Jackie Fritz &#8217;11<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auggies who have graduated from any Augsburg degree program\u00a0in the past 10 years are invited to join the Young Alumni Council\u00a0and help plan year-round activities for recent alumni. In the past,\u00a0the Young Alumni Council has organized a Twins game outing, a\u00a0financial planning talk and social hour at Summit Brewery, and an\u00a0afternoon of ice skating at <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,73],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-7672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-auggies-connect","tag-spring-summer-2017"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672","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=7672"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7730,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions\/7730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}