{"id":967,"date":"2020-10-14T14:27:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/?p=967"},"modified":"2020-10-14T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:28:42","slug":"augsburg-receives-two-geer-grants-for-equity-in-education-and-remote-learning-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/2020\/10\/14\/augsburg-receives-two-geer-grants-for-equity-in-education-and-remote-learning-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg Receives Two GEER Grants for Equity in Education and Remote Learning Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/files\/2020\/10\/primary-logo-example_tcm1077-265307.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-968\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/files\/2020\/10\/primary-logo-example_tcm1077-265307.jpg\" alt=\"Minnesota state logo\" width=\"216\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>The Education Department (Dr. Audrey Lensmire) and the Information Technology Department (Scott Krajewski) are the recipients of two new grants from the State of Minnesota which total $250,000. The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Governor\u2019s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) grant awards will address equity in education and technology and remote learning needs among students of color, Indigenous students, and those who are disabled or low-income.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lensmire\u2019s GEER grant will provide direct aid to teacher candidates who have a need to defray unexpected costs posed by the pandemic during their student teaching semester and coursework.\u00a0 Krajewski\u2019s GEER grant will ensure that students receive the hardware and software required for meeting course learning objectives, and will provide captioning on instructional video recordings in order to make them more accessible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The grant awards will result in students and faculty being able to weather changes to their plans for learning and teaching a bit more smoothly. We owe thanks to the Minnesota Office of Higher Education for administering the competitive selection process this summer. We also wish to thank Dr. Lauren Causey for her skillful guidance in creating two high quality GEER proposals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The GEER grant program is a redistribution of federal CARES Act funds.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Education Department (Dr. Audrey Lensmire) and the Information Technology Department (Scott Krajewski) are the recipients of two new grants from the State of Minnesota which total $250,000. The Governor\u2019s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) grant awards will address equity in education and technology and remote learning needs among students of color, Indigenous students, and those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/2020\/10\/14\/augsburg-receives-two-geer-grants-for-equity-in-education-and-remote-learning-needs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Augsburg Receives Two GEER Grants for Equity in Education and Remote Learning Needs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[27,38,39,37],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-news","tag-education","tag-information-technology","tag-krajewski","tag-lensmire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}