{"id":5179,"date":"2019-11-26T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/?post_type=campus_story&#038;p=5179"},"modified":"2019-11-26T12:53:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:53:15","slug":"uw-parkside-alumnus-returns-to-campus-as-visiting-sociology-professor","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/uw-parkside-alumnus-returns-to-campus-as-visiting-sociology-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"UW-Parkside alumnus returns to campus as visiting sociology professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2019\/11\/PKS_MartelPipkins_visiting.professor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2019\/11\/PKS_MartelPipkins_visiting.professor-1024x572.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of UW-Parkside alumnus Martel Pipkins returning to his alma mater to teach as a visiting sociology professor\" width=\"1024\" height=\"572\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Martel Pipkins remembers not being all that into high school, but a visit to <strong>UW-Parkside<\/strong> changed his outlook. His visit inspired him to graduate from Milwaukee&#8217;s Bay View High School in 2005 and then from UW-Parkside four years later.<\/p>\n<p>Taking his journey full circle, Martel returned to UW-Parkside this fall as Dr. Martel Pipkins, a visiting sociology professor. His goal: give back \u2026 both to make sociology irresistible and to inspire UW-Parkside students to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwp.edu\/explore\/news\/parksidetoday\/parkside-today-martel-pipkins.cfm\">interview with UW-Parkside alumnus Martel Pipkins<\/a>, in which he talks about what it&#8217;s like to return to UWP as a visiting professor in the sociology department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martel Pipkins remembers not being all that into high school, but a visit to UW-Parkside changed his outlook. His visit inspired him to graduate from Milwaukee&#8217;s Bay View High School in 2005 and then from UW-Parkside four years later. Taking his journey full circle, Martel returned to UW-Parkside this fall as Dr. Martel Pipkins, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","institution":[105],"story_category":[],"class_list":["post-5179","campus_story","type-campus_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","institution-uw-parkside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story\/5179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/campus_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=5179"},{"taxonomy":"story_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_category?post=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}