{"id":1077,"date":"2015-03-04T10:21:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T15:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2023-04-07T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:48:57","slug":"american-university-celebrates-peace-corps-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/american-university-celebrates-peace-corps-week\/","title":{"rendered":"American University Celebrates Peace Corps Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIn celebration of Peace Corps Week, on Tuesday, March 2, American University hosted Peace Corps recruiter Chuck Cascio and more than 10 Returned Peace Corps volunteers, many of them\u00a0American University students and alumni. Along with the opportunity to talk with Peace Corps volunteers, the event included displays of photos and objects\u00a0related each RPCV&#8217;s service. These RPCVs shared their Peace Corps experiences, demonstrating how they each made a difference in their respective communities.<\/p>\n<p>Last month,<a title=\"Peace Corps Announces 2015 Top Volunteer-Producing Schools\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peacecorps.gov\/media\/forpress\/press\/2507\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the Peace Corps ranked American University as one of the top medium-sized colleges and universities<\/a> producing Peace Corps volunteers. As shown by Tuesday&#8217;s event, American University will continue its already strong relationship with Peace Corps service.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1078\" style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/03\/11041750_10204323230860730_5381143255007960491_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1078\" class=\" wp-image-1078\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/03\/11041750_10204323230860730_5381143255007960491_n-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"RPCV Lauren Kovach (Zambia, 2012-2014) and Rachel Teter (Panama, 2011-2013) inform American University students about the merits of Peace Corps service. \" width=\"364\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RPCV Lauren Kovach (Zambia, 2012-2014); left, and Rachel Teter (Panama, 2011-2013) ; right. inform American University students about the merits of Peace Corps service.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of Peace Corps Week, on Tuesday, March 2, American University hosted Peace Corps recruiter Chuck Cascio and more than 10 Returned Peace Corps volunteers, many of them\u00a0American University students and alumni. Along with the opportunity to talk with Peace Corps volunteers, the event included displays of photos and objects\u00a0related each RPCV&#8217;s service. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,39,65,67,74,82],"tags":[107,280,281,312],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","category-event","category-national-peace-corps-association","category-news","category-peace-corps-resources","category-returned-peace-corps-volunteers","tag-american-university","tag-peace-corps-week","tag-peace-corps-birthday","tag-rpcv-reunions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6754,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/6754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}