{"id":2395,"date":"2013-11-19T02:37:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T02:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2013-11-19T02:37:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T02:37:10","slug":"student-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/student-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"News Brief: Student Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story and photo by Marisa McKnight<!--more--><\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 4\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Thirty students from Denmark agreed that<br \/>\nin Texas some things \u2014 trucks, casual dress and food portions to name a few \u2014 are bigger.<\/p>\n<p>The students, ages<br \/>\n17 &#8211; 20, were studying Texas literature, his- tory and game develop- ment at the Northridge Campus as part of their secondary education program at Denmark\u2019s Odense Tekniske<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gymnasium. They spent four weeks exploring Texas on the program.<\/p>\n<p>The students spoke of their Texas experiences at the Oct. 11 Student Life Diversity Conference held at the Eastview Campus.<\/p>\n<p>The event also included a religious panel consisting of a Protestant pastor, a Catholic priest, and an Imam from a local Mosque.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2396\" style=\"width: 592px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/LeadershipDiversity_Marisa-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2396\" alt=\"LeadershipDiversity_Marisa-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/LeadershipDiversity_Marisa-2-592x392.jpg\" width=\"592\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On standBy\u2014 Students from Denmark\u2019s Odense Tekniske Gymnasium wait their turn to speak at the Diversity Conference held Oct. 11 at Eastview Campus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and photo by Marisa McKnight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4015,"featured_media":2396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[196,202,457],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-danish-students","tag-denmark","tag-odense-tekniske-gymnasium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}