{"id":607,"date":"2014-06-19T10:03:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=607"},"modified":"2014-06-19T10:03:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:03:56","slug":"reading-student-names-at-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2014\/06\/19\/reading-student-names-at-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Student Names at Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before becoming a dean I loved attending graduation ceremonies. As noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/2013\/12\/17\/first-commencement-ceremony\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous post<\/a>, my enjoyment has been tempered by discomfort with a new task: reading students&#8217; names, as I worry about mispronouncing some of them. I just read about a new service that might help: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/start-up-aims-to-solve-perpetual-graduation-problem-butchered-names\/53385\" target=\"_blank\">NameCoach, a web page students can use to record their names with correct pronunciation.<\/a> I&#8217;m going to have to get UW-Parkside connected to this service!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before becoming a dean I loved attending graduation ceremonies. As noted in a previous post, my enjoyment has been tempered by discomfort with a new task: reading students&#8217; names, as I worry about mispronouncing some of them. I just read about a new service that might help: NameCoach, a web page students can use to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22221],"tags":[22237,12],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organizational-leadership","tag-role-transition","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}