Jordan Morgan, a passionate conservationist and bicyclist, came to 91心頭利 from St. Peter to pursue a degree in environmental studies with a minor in sociology.<\/p>\n
He got the opportunity to attend college when he won a $20,000 scholarship from a hometown endowment for students who triumph over hardship while doing well in school.<\/span><\/p>\n By the time he was 18, Morgan had been declared an emancipated minor, making him financially independent from his parents before he graduated from high school. A friend’s family took him in as one of their own and that first summer introduced him to the Boundary Waters. <\/span><\/p>\n “I remember thinking, ‘Wow, this is something that I really care about,’” said Morgan, who was impressed by the vast wilderness. “Then when I got the scholarship, the northern woods called me back. I knew I wanted to go to Bemidji. It has an amazing environmental studies program.”<\/span><\/p>\n Last summer, Morgan became a Doris Duke Conservation Scholar, one of 24 outstanding students selected from a field of 400 applicants. He spent eight weeks studying conservation at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n “It was such a great experience,” said Morgan, who was particularly impressed by research related to climate change, wildlife movement and connectivity. “That’s where He credits his strong start in college to BSU TRIO, a prep program for first-generation and low-income students. Morgan fit the bill on both counts. <\/span><\/p>\n “I took full advantage of everything TRIO had to offer, and that really made the difference,” he said. “I don’t know if I would have been able to do the same things without it.”<\/span><\/p>\n Morgan is president of Students for the Environment and a member of the BSU Sustainability Office. He applauds the university’s signature themes of multicultural understanding, environmental stewardship and civic engagement. He has also been accepted as a McNair Scholar, a nationwide prep program for graduate school. His goal is to become a college professor so he can do conservation research and mentor others. <\/span><\/p>\n “What’s unique about Jordan is that he finds the good in any situation,” said his advisor Erika Bailey-Johnson, BSU Sustainability Office coordinator. “He’s such a positive person, and that has a ripple effect on everyone.”<\/span><\/p>\n In the face of difficulties, Morgan sees only silver linings.<\/span><\/p>\n “I’ve had really great people in my life – at St. Peter and Bemidji State,” he said. “I’ve been fortunate.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jordan Morgan, a passionate conservationist and bicyclist, came to 91心頭利 from St. Peter to pursue a degree in environmental studies with a minor in sociology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":19452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[958],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19805,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19451\/revisions\/19805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI want to do my research in the future.” <\/span><\/p>\n