{"id":30362,"date":"2017-11-27T13:09:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T19:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=30362"},"modified":"2017-11-27T13:09:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T19:09:56","slug":"bemidji-pioneer-day-gonzalez-johnson-among-education-association-honorees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/27\/bemidji-pioneer-day-gonzalez-johnson-among-education-association-honorees\/","title":{"rendered":"Bemidji Pioneer: Day, Gonzalez, Johnson among education association honorees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>BEMIDJI &mdash; Several Bemidji-area teachers and students were recognized Thursday at the Minnesota Indian Education Association&rsquo;s 33rd annual conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p402_premium\">\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p class=\"\">John Gonzalez, a BSU professor and a Bemidji Area Schools board member was named post-secondary Teacher of the Year. BSU senior Naomi Johnson won post-secondary Student of the Year, and Donald Day, the former executive director at the university&rsquo;s American Indian Resource Center, received a Lifetime Achievement Award. And BSU alum Roger Aitken&rsquo;s family accepted a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award on his behalf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gonzalez is a psychology professor at BSU who was voted to the K-12 school board last November. He&rsquo;s investigated American Indian students and people&rsquo;s experiences accessing healthcare and has spoken at length about racial microaggressions and racial disparities in the Bemidji area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Johnson is a McNair scholar at the university who works on the President&rsquo;s Student Commission. She&rsquo;s also on the American Indian Advisory Council at BSU and has served as vice president and president on its Council of Indian Students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Day has been around BSU for years and is a former executive director at the school&rsquo;s American Indian Resource Center. He&rsquo;s also served as president of the Fond Du Lac and Leech Lake tribal colleges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Aitken, who passed away last February, was instrumental in creating the resource center at BSU and getting Leech Lake Tribal College&rsquo;s new campus. He served on the Bemidji State University Foundation for years and was on the search committees that selected former BSU presidents Jon Quistgard and Richard Hanson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"recommended node-ad-desktop nocontent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI &mdash; Several Bemidji-area teachers and students were recognized Thursday at the Minnesota Indian Education Association&rsquo;s 33rd annual conference. John Gonzalez, a BSU professor and a Bemidji Area Schools board member was named post-secondary Teacher of the Year. BSU senior Naomi Johnson won post-secondary Student of the Year, and Donald Day, the former executive director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30363,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30362\/revisions\/30363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}