{"id":5288,"date":"2020-03-04T10:09:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/?post_type=campus_story&#038;p=5288"},"modified":"2020-03-04T10:09:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:09:39","slug":"uw-eau-claires-blugold-beginnings-nationally-recognized","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/uw-eau-claires-blugold-beginnings-nationally-recognized\/","title":{"rendered":"UW-Eau Claire&#8217;s Blugold Beginnings nationally recognized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/01\/EAU_02_BlugoldBeginnings_20161209_Service_Day_23_2000px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2020\/01\/EAU_02_BlugoldBeginnings_20161209_Service_Day_23_2000px-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of UW-Eau Claire's Blugold Beginnings\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UW-Eau Claire\u2019s<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwec.edu\/equity-diversity-inclusion\/edi-services-programs\/blugold-beginnings\/\">Blugold Beginnings<\/a> \u2013 which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/interactives\/20191231-barriers-case-studies\">recently recognized nationally<\/a> \u2013 works to inspire underrepresented, low-income, and first-generation students to believe that a college education is possible. The program not only motivates K-12 students but also supports current Blugolds, improving their retention, grade-point averages, and graduation rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW-Eau Claire\u2019s Blugold Beginnings \u2013 which was recently recognized nationally \u2013 works to inspire underrepresented, low-income, and first-generation students to believe that a college education is possible. The program not only motivates K-12 students but also supports current Blugolds, improving their retention, grade-point averages, and graduation rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","institution":[96],"story_category":[],"class_list":["post-5288","campus_story","type-campus_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","institution-uw-eau-claire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story\/5288","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=5288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=5288"},{"taxonomy":"story_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_category?post=5288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}