{"id":11469,"date":"2018-02-16T21:06:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T21:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=11469"},"modified":"2018-02-16T21:06:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T21:06:54","slug":"colorados-rural-colleges-branching-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2018\/02\/16\/colorados-rural-colleges-branching-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado\u2019s rural colleges branching out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Otero Junior College and CU Denver recently launched a partnership to offer a bachelor\u2019s degree in elementary education that can be completed entirely at the Otero campus in La Junta. This will help nurture the desire for local residents to stay in the area and teach, said Otero president Jim Rizzuto. Too often, area schools attract K-12 teachers with no roots in La Junta, and they leave almost as soon as they arrive. \u201cThis way we can grow our own teachers,\u201d Rizzuto said. \u201cThey already have a stake in the town and want to stay and help our local kids succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/02\/12\/colorado-community-college-system-low-cost-classes\/\">[Read the full article at the Denver Post]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otero Junior College and CU Denver recently launched a partnership to offer a bachelor\u2019s degree in elementary education that can be completed entirely at the Otero campus in La Junta. This will help nurture the desire for local residents to stay in the area and teach, said Otero president Jim Rizzuto. Too often, area schools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}