{"id":8930,"date":"2018-11-19T16:52:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=8930"},"modified":"2018-11-19T16:52:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:52:38","slug":"stepup-makes-national-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2018\/11\/19\/stepup-makes-national-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"StepUP makes National Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt put Augsburg University\u2019s StepUP\u00ae Program\u00a0in the spotlight this May by showcasing its success in helping students in recovery complete their college education.<\/p>\n<p>NBC\u2019s Catie Beck interviewed <strong>Neil King \u201918<\/strong> about the support he received from StepUP as a full-time student at Augsburg.<\/p>\n<p>Beck also interviewed StepUP Progam Director <strong>Tamarah Gehlen<\/strong>. \u201cWe always say that no one should have to choose between recovery and a college education,\u201d Gehlen said.<\/p>\n<p>King, who began using drugs at age 14, discovered the StepUP Program four months into his recovery. \u201cI really learned to believe in myself and my skills and capabilities,\u201d said King, who\u2019s now pursuing a master\u2019s\u00a0degree at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>See full interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nightly-news\/video\/college-combats-drug-addiction-and-alcoholism-with-recovery-dorms-1243416643774\">NBC\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt put Augsburg University\u2019s StepUP\u00ae Program\u00a0in the spotlight this May by showcasing its success in helping students in recovery complete their college education. NBC\u2019s Catie Beck interviewed Neil King \u201918 about the support he received from StepUP as a full-time student at Augsburg. Beck also interviewed StepUP Progam Director Tamarah <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":9158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-8930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-fall-winter-2018"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8930"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9160,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930\/revisions\/9160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}