{"id":44514,"date":"2019-04-23T10:30:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=44514"},"modified":"2020-02-21T18:09:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T22:09:57","slug":"congratulations-to-the-six-new-alts-selected-from-hendrix-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/23\/congratulations-to-the-six-new-alts-selected-from-hendrix-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the Six New ALTs Selected from Hendrix College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hendrix College record of six seniors have been accepted as Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) in the\u00a0<a title=\"Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program\" href=\"https:\/\/jetprogramusa.org\/\">Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alex Berner, a psychology major from Keller, Texas<\/li>\n<li>Jazmin Calixto, a psychology major\/studio art minor from Dallas, Texas<\/li>\n<li>Adrienne McGooden, a psychology major from Siloam Springs, Ark.<\/li>\n<li>John Tran, a religious studies\/neuroscience double major from Little Rock, Ark.<\/li>\n<li>Katherine Verdaris, an economics major from Little Rock, Ark.<\/li>\n<li>Hueseng Xiong, a biochemistry and molecular biology major\/Chinese minor from Subiaco, Ark.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI think this year\u2019s success is largely the result of these students\u2019 active participation in a broad range of Japanese cultural activities on campus and in the community,\u201d Gwen Stockwell, director of ESOL and International Student Services for Hendrix, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been great to see Japanese language and culture contribute to diversity on our campus and in our community. As a JET alumna myself\u2014I served in Miyazaki, Japan, from 1998 to 2001\u2014I\u2019m delighted to see our graduates now be able to benefit from cultural exchange programs like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hendrix.edu\/news\/news.aspx?id=89322\">Read more about the new ALTs and their experiences here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hendrix College record of six seniors have been accepted as Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) in the\u00a0Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program: Alex Berner, a psychology major from Keller, Texas Jazmin Calixto, a psychology major\/studio art minor from Dallas, Texas Adrienne McGooden, a psychology major from Siloam Springs, Ark. John Tran, a religious studies\/neuroscience double [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-bzY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44516,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44514\/revisions\/44516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}