{"id":14,"date":"2015-08-24T19:51:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T19:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/augsburg2019\/?p=14"},"modified":"2017-06-20T17:21:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T17:21:02","slug":"educational-innovation-on-the-mighty-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/augsburg2019\/2015\/08\/24\/educational-innovation-on-the-mighty-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational innovation on the Mighty Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/augsburg2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/2015\/08\/river-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"River Semester\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/augsburg2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/2015\/08\/river-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/augsburg2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/2015\/08\/river.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Linking classroom learning with high-impact, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/academics\/augsburg-experience\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">experiential learning<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> opportunities off-campus is a hallmark of an Augsburg education. This fall, 16 Augsburg students, two faculty members, and two staff members from a nonprofit expeditioning organization will travel from St. Paul to New Orleans over the course of the semester, oftentimes camping on the banks of the Mississippi River and engaging with people who live and work along its path. Students will carry out river-related projects (such as studying light pollution or water quality along the route) and study subject areas in the arts and sciences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Joe Underhill<\/strong>, associate professor of political science and leader of the project, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mprnews.org\/oncampus\/2015\/07\/how-augsburg-is-going-all-mark-twain\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">told<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Minnesota Public Radio the students will \u201cget that broad exposure to the American heartland. They also get just a really intense experience that will be life-changing for them in a way that you just can\u2019t replicate by staying in the Twin Cities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To our knowledge, this program is the first of its kind in the nation. That type of curricular and pedagogical innovation takes time; Underhill has been putting the pieces in place to make the trip possible for more than a decade. It also requires institutional support: the <\/span><a href=\"\/global\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Center for Global Experience and Education<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for example, lent its expertise in managing \u201cstudy away\u201d experiences and the attendant risk management needs, financial considerations, and more to the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The result will be a transformative\u2014but uniquely low-carbon\u2014off-campus educational experience for the students involved. The expedition will launch from Harriet Island in St. Paul on Sept. 1 at an event featuring remarks from St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman. You can learn more and follow the students along their journey in words, photos, and videos on the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/augsburg.edu\/river\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">River Semester site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Augsburg 2019 Dimension 1, Goal 1, Strategy 1: Invest in Curricular Innovation<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linking classroom learning with high-impact, experiential learning opportunities off-campus is a hallmark of an Augsburg education. This fall, 16 Augsburg students, two faculty members, and two staff members from a nonprofit expeditioning organization will travel from St. Paul to New Orleans over the course of the semester, oftentimes camping on the banks of the Mississippi &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategy1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/augsburg2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/augsburg2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/augsburg2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/augsburg2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/augsburg2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/augsburg2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/augsburg2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/augsburg2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/augsburg2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/augsburg2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}