{"id":70607,"date":"2016-06-23T06:36:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T11:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=70607"},"modified":"2016-06-23T08:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T13:31:31","slug":"australian-delegation-visits-delta-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/06\/australian-delegation-visits-delta-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian delegation visits Delta State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 47 students and faculty members from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia made a special stop at Delta State\u2019s campus Wednesday\u00a0during their three-week international study tour between New Orleans and Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>The group is taking part in the trip to focus on critical aspects of the region, including history, culture, society, site visits and more.<\/p>\n<p>Their stop at Delta State included a tour of the Delta Music Institute, a visit from the Fighting Okra, a luncheon with President William N. LaForge and Dr. Christy Riddle with International Student Services, and a visit to GRAMMY Museum\u00ae Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>The students, enrolled in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, will eventually complete a region-based research project based on their visit.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on La Trobe University, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latrobe.edu.au\/about\">http:\/\/www.latrobe.edu.au\/about<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow all Delta State University news at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\">www.deltastate.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 47 students and faculty members from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia made a special stop at Delta State\u2019s campus Wednesday\u00a0during their three-week international study tour between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":70609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,83,108],"tags":[1561,388,1560,1423],"class_list":["post-70607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delta-center","category-international","category-president","tag-australia","tag-international-student-services","tag-la-trobe-university","tag-president"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70616,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70607\/revisions\/70616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}