{"id":10432,"date":"2020-08-28T00:05:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T00:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=10432"},"modified":"2021-01-29T18:15:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T18:15:52","slug":"student-emergency-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2020\/08\/28\/student-emergency-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Emergency Fund Established"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Student Emergency Fund was established in March to support Augsburg students with financial relief as we all grapple with the challenges of COVID-19. In these disruptive times, many students are experiencing the loss of income and jobs as segments of the economy shut down, struggles to provide for their families,\u00a0obstacles in returning home to out-of-state residences, and uncertainty about their ability to finance their Augsburg education.<\/p>\n<p>With this fund, students are able to request emergency funding for basic needs, including food, rent, transportation, and medication. They may also request funding for academic materials\u2014such as books, supplies, laptop computer rentals, and wireless internet\u2014to ensure their education is not impacted by a lack of attainable resources.<\/p>\n<p>Give to the Student Emergency Fund at <a href=\"http:\/\/augsburg.edu\/giving\">augsburg.edu\/giving<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Student Emergency Fund was established in March to support Augsburg students with financial relief as we all grapple with the challenges of COVID-19. In these disruptive times, many students are experiencing the loss of income and jobs as segments of the economy shut down, struggles to provide for their families,\u00a0obstacles in returning home to <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":10528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-10432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auggies-connect","tag-spring-summer-2020"],"wps_subtitle":"The fund supports Augsburg students with financial relief amid challenges from COVID-19 pandemic","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432","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\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10432"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10922,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions\/10922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}