{"id":5849,"date":"2015-05-05T15:14:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T15:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5849"},"modified":"2018-02-27T15:33:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T15:33:38","slug":"wcco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/05\/05\/wcco\/","title":{"rendered":"WCCO-TV story features Augsburg Commencement ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3910\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/WCCO.jpeg\" alt=\"WCCO\" width=\"60\" height=\"58\" \/>In the\u00a0WCCO-TV story &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2015\/05\/03\/augsburg-college-celebrates-its-most-diverse-graduating-class-in-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">Augsburg College Celebrates Its Most Diverse Graduating Class In\u00a0History<\/a>,&#8221; Commencement participant\u00a0<strong>Promise Okeke &#8217;15<\/strong>\u00a0described his drive for an undergraduate degree and experiences at Augsburg.<\/p>\n<p>The story also showed images of Augsburg&#8217;s traditional undergraduate Commencement event\u00a0on May 2, noting that approximately 30 percent of the undergraduate Class of 2015\u00a0is comprised\u00a0of\u00a0students of color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the\u00a0WCCO-TV story &#8220;Augsburg College Celebrates Its Most Diverse Graduating Class In\u00a0History,&#8221; Commencement participant\u00a0Promise Okeke &#8217;15\u00a0described his drive for an undergraduate degree and experiences at Augsburg. The story also showed images of Augsburg&#8217;s traditional undergraduate Commencement event\u00a0on May 2, noting that approximately 30 percent of the undergraduate Class of 2015\u00a0is comprised\u00a0of\u00a0students of color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,8],"tags":[3933,657,849,3229,3636,3087],"class_list":["post-5849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-students","tag-augsburg-university","tag-commencement","tag-diversity","tag-graduation","tag-inclusion","tag-wcco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5849"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5857,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}