{"id":9648,"date":"2012-09-04T16:18:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T20:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=9648"},"modified":"2012-09-04T16:18:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T20:18:04","slug":"citizen-alum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=9648","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Alum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizenalum.org\/\">Citizen Alum<\/a> is a new project that seeks to define college alumni not as givers (of cash) but as doers&#8211;as people who help to educate college students, children, and everyone else. The activists behind Citizen Alum include Julie Ellison, the American Studies professor who played a leading role in launching <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginingamerica.org\/\">Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life<\/a>, and other excellent colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"www.civicyouth.org\">CIRCLE<\/a>, most of our work aims to engage people who do not happen to hold college degrees: still a clear majority. (Forty-two percent of current youth do not even enter college, let alone finish it to become alumni.) But alumni have great potential, and I like the idea of redefining their roles with new language and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizenalum.org\/new-and-events\/\">new activities and events<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen Alum is a new project that seeks to define college alumni not as givers (of cash) but as doers&#8211;as people who help to educate college students, children, and everyone else. The activists behind Citizen Alum include Julie Ellison, the American Studies professor who played a leading role in launching Imagining America: Artists and Scholars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9648"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9663,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648\/revisions\/9663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}