{"id":275,"date":"2012-08-20T08:22:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T08:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/?p=275"},"modified":"2012-08-20T08:22:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T08:22:46","slug":"balian-award-recipient-ryan-mcgohon-ma-tefl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/balian-award-recipient-ryan-mcgohon-ma-tefl\/","title":{"rendered":"Balian Award Recipient: Ryan McGohon (MA TEFL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ryan-McGohon-2012-Balian-Award-recipient.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-276 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Ryan-McGohon-2012-Balian-Award-recipient\" src=\"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Ryan-McGohon-2012-Balian-Award-recipient-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The Department of English Programs is proud to announce that MA TEFL student Ryan McGohon was selected as the 2012 Balian Award recipient.\u00a0 Ryan initially came to Armenia from the USA as a Peace Corps volunteer and dedicated two years of his life to teaching English and various other community projects in Shamshadin.\u00a0 While there, Ryan also managed to obtain donations and supplies from the US for the local hospital as well as other regional medical centers throughout Tavush Marz.\u00a0 Ryan is a prime example of what it means to be an American University of Armenia (AUA) student.\u00a0 With all the qualities he demonstrates, he is poised for great professional and personal success.\u00a0 Congratulations Ryan!!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/> <strong>The American University of Armenia (AUA) is a private, nonsectarian, independent university located in <a title=\"Yerevan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yerevan\">Yerevan<\/a>, <a title=\"Armenia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armenia\">Armenia<\/a>.\u00a0 Founded in 1991, AUA is affiliated with the University of California.\u00a0 Through teaching, research, and public service, AUA serves Armenia and the region by supplying high-quality education in seven different major fields, encouraging civic engagement, and promoting democratic values.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The American University of Armenia is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, 985 Atlantic Avenue, #100, Alameda, CA 94501, 510-748-9001.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>###<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MA TEFL student Ryan McGohon was selected as the 2012 Balian Award recipient. The announcement came at this year&#8217;s commencement exercises. Ryan initially came to Armenia from the USA as a Peace Corps volunteer and dedicated two years to teaching English and various other community projects in Shamshadin in the Tavush region. Established in 1995 by Vartkes and Rita Balian, the Balian award recognizes the best overall performance of a first-year student. The award is equivalent to the tuition for the recipient&#8217;s second year of study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}