{"id":761,"date":"2013-08-27T10:03:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T15:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/ctl\/?p=761"},"modified":"2019-11-05T13:20:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T19:20:41","slug":"opening-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/ctl\/2013\/08\/27\/opening-convocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes&#8217; welcome: Opening Convocation is September 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/ctl\/files\/2012\/09\/2013-distinguished_contributions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"164\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2013 Distinguished Contributors: Laura Boisen, David Matz, Darcey Engen, and Colin Irvine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Each year, the recipient of the Center for Teaching and Learning\u2019s Distinguished Contributions Award for Excellence in Teaching delivers the Opening Convocation address at Augsburg College.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Irvine, 2013 award recipient and associate professor of English, in his talk \u201cThe Classroom is Your Classroom\u201d will discuss the importance of being present: being present for others, being present in the classroom, and being present in college.<\/p>\n<p>With Augsburg\u2019s idea of being called in mind, he will invoke and complicate Joseph Campbell\u2019s \u201cThe Hero Myth,\u201d insisting that everyone is called to be heroic.<\/p>\n<p>Opening Convocation will be held at 10:30 a.m., September 3 in Hoversten Chapel, Foss Center. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to a picnic lunch hosted on the Quad following the Convocation. In the case of rain, lunch will be served in the Commons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, the recipient of the Center for Teaching and Learning\u2019s Distinguished Contributions Award for Excellence in Teaching delivers the Opening Convocation address at Augsburg College. Colin Irvine, 2013 award recipient and associate professor of English, in his talk \u201cThe Classroom is Your Classroom\u201d will discuss the importance of being present: being present for others, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/ctl\/2013\/08\/27\/opening-convocation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heroes&#8217; welcome: Opening Convocation is September 3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3173,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/3173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}