{"id":333,"date":"2013-04-23T13:46:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T13:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/?p=333"},"modified":"2013-04-23T13:46:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T13:46:02","slug":"jackson-epic-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/2013\/04\/23\/jackson-epic-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson &#8211; EPIC (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/files\/2013\/04\/EPIC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-19 alignleft\" alt=\"EPIC\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/files\/2013\/04\/EPIC-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you initially hear the word <i>diversity<\/i> discussed regarding an institution or organization, what comes to mind?\u00a0 Most people think of racial diversity, working together as one cohesive unit.\u00a0 While this is found within all of UCA\u2019s Residential Colleges, that is not all that diversity encompasses here.<\/p>\n<p>We have a wide variety of Residential Colleges that fit multiple fields of interest.\u00a0 This diversity allows for everyone who comes to UCA to find his or her perfect fit.\u00a0 Diversity can be seen even within these individual programs, which is pretty remarkable if you think about it.\u00a0 With EPIC, teams are created to tackle projects that nobody in particular is an expert on, so that everyone is able to contribute their points of view.\u00a0 In the group for my most recent project, we had a Marketing major, Chemistry major, Music Education major, Physical Therapy major, and a Pre-Medical Biology major.\u00a0 Because of this, we had methodological business minds, creative artistic minds, and analytical science minds all working as a unified group to complete our project.<\/p>\n<p>Having projects with such diversity allows students in Residential Colleges to experience more than those who are not, both in projects than they can participate in, as well as the huge variety of friends they will inevitably make.\u00a0 UCA\u2019s Residential Colleges are an amazing way for people to meet and interact with others from all walks of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you initially hear the word diversity discussed regarding an institution or organization, what comes to mind?\u00a0 Most people think of racial diversity, working together as one cohesive unit.\u00a0 While this is found within all of UCA\u2019s Residential Colleges, that is not all that diversity encompasses here. We have a wide variety of Residential Colleges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[33,9,7,22,37,27,24,29,28,20,35,13,23,15,11,8,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}