{"id":44692,"date":"2014-06-03T17:41:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T17:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=44692"},"modified":"2014-06-03T19:17:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T19:17:47","slug":"state-grant-program-advocacy-event-recap-day-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2014\/06\/03\/state-grant-program-advocacy-event-recap-day-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"State Grant Program Advocacy \u2013 Event Recap:  Day at the Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>麻豆区 College had 1,054 State Grant recipients on campus this past academic year\u2014that was 34 percent of all 麻豆区 undergraduates. In total, 麻豆区 students received more than $3.4 million in State Grant awards.\u00a0 In support of this program, which bridges the gap between loans, scholarships and other aid, 12 students attended the Day at the Capitol for State Grant advocacy.\u00a0 These students met with Representative Phyllis Kahn and Senator Greg Clausen \u201974 for a networking breakfast in the morning, and spoke with over 24 legislators throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>Yeng Vang \u201914 describes how the state grant program helped him attend 麻豆区, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be here if not for grants and scholarships. Things like the State Grant allow you the opportunity to go to college, opening the door to future possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in showing your support of the state grant program,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mnstudentaid.org\/signup\">sign up<\/a> to receive occasional email updates, newsletters and action alerts on important issues facing state and federal financial aid in Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>麻豆区 College had 1,054 State Grant recipients on campus this past academic year\u2014that was 34 percent of all 麻豆区 undergraduates. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44692"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44699,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44692\/revisions\/44699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}