{"id":25573,"date":"2020-08-25T22:12:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T22:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/?p=25573"},"modified":"2020-08-27T14:31:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T14:31:29","slug":"covid-19-and-summer-heat-dont-stop-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/2020\/08\/25\/covid-19-and-summer-heat-dont-stop-us\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 and summer heat don&#8217;t stop us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25574\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25574\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/08\/CMN-Retreat-400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/08\/CMN-Retreat-400-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Faculty members at department retreat\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/08\/CMN-Retreat-400-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2020\/08\/CMN-Retreat-400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenny Hanson, Bob Groven, Wes Ellenwood, and Kristen Chamberlain kept proper social distance while spending the morning at a departmental retreat on Kristen&#8217;s deck. (Also present but not pictured: Jenna McNallie and David Lapakko.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As we approach a new school year that is bound to be filled with unexpected challenges and surprises, full-time department faculty met on August 25 to get ready for 2020&#8211;and beyond!\u00a0 As always, there are issues regarding staffing, finances, curriculum, technology, and classroom pedagogy, among others.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking forward to making Zoom and Moodle useful for all students and faculty; it&#8217;s a daunting task and we&#8217;ll be doing our best to make it all work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As we approach a new school year that is bound to be filled with unexpected challenges and surprises, full-time &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":25574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-25573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-faculty","tag-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25576,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25573\/revisions\/25576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}