{"id":30753,"date":"2018-01-11T09:10:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T15:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=30753"},"modified":"2018-01-11T09:10:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T15:10:41","slug":"bemidji-pioneer-a-new-start-for-a-new-semester-bsu-welcomes-back-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/11\/bemidji-pioneer-a-new-start-for-a-new-semester-bsu-welcomes-back-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Bemidji Pioneer: A new start for a new semester: BSU welcomes back students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_30754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30754\" style=\"width: 657px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30754 img-fluid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/01\/01118.n.bp_.welcome-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"370\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/01\/01118.n.bp_.welcome.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/01\/01118.n.bp_.welcome-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/01\/01118.n.bp_.welcome-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/01\/01118.n.bp_.welcome-226x127.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/01\/01118.n.bp_.welcome.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BSU President Faith Hensrud speaks to a gathering at the American Indian Resource Center on Wednesday during the Day of Welcome. In addition to Hensrud&rsquo;s comments, the program also included comments from American Indian Resource Center Executive Director Bill Blackwell and BSU Professor Anton Treuer. (Jordan Shearer | Bemidji Pioneer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>BEMIDJI&mdash;91心頭利 leaders welcomed students back to campus Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The school&rsquo;s twice-annual &ldquo;Day of Welcome&rdquo; at the American Indian Resource Center featured an honor song, pipe ceremony, and a handful of speeches from university leaders.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We basically make sure that we start off each semester just in a culturally rooted way,&rdquo; said Bill Blackwell, Jr., the resource center&rsquo;s executive director.<\/p>\n<p>He and other school leaders said they hoped BSU students stayed safe when they travel to and from campus and prayed for a great day, great semester, and great year.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re kind of all like a big family and we&rsquo;re all here to help each other out.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The school also dedicated a new lounge for its Niganawenimaanaanig nursing program. The program&mdash;named for an Ojibwe word meaning &ldquo;we take care of them&rdquo;&ndash; encourages American Indian representation in nursing and is funded by a nearly $2 million Nursing Workforce Development grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, according to a school release.<\/p>\n<p>Students participating in the program receive scholarships up to $4,000 and monthly stipends of up to $500 for meeting specific program requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI&mdash;91心頭利 leaders welcomed students back to campus Wednesday. The school&rsquo;s twice-annual &ldquo;Day of Welcome&rdquo; at the American Indian Resource Center featured an honor song, pipe ceremony, and a handful of speeches from university leaders. &ldquo;We basically make sure that we start off each semester just in a culturally rooted way,&rdquo; said Bill Blackwell, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30753","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30755,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30753\/revisions\/30755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}