{"id":8,"date":"2018-07-09T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T17:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/goodall\/club\/"},"modified":"2022-02-23T19:19:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T19:19:57","slug":"club","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/goodall\/club\/","title":{"rendered":"About Roots &amp; Shoots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/goodall\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/185\/2018\/07\/Roots-Shoots-club.jpg\" alt=\"Roots &amp; shoots club booth\" \/> The Jane Goodall Center for Environmental Excellence fosters service-learning projects for students throughout the community by reaching out to help with after-school programs, animal shelters, environmental organizations and causes, nursing homes and food pantries.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, WCSU was established as a National Center for University Roots &amp; Shoots by the Jane Goodall Institute, the first of its kind in the U.S. From 2005-2012, the Roots &amp; Shoots office at WCSU served as a regional and national office of excellence in training university students, faculty and administrators to develop programs for K-12 and college students in local, regional and global conservation.<\/p>\n<p>The international headquarters for Roots &amp; Shoots is\u00a0 now located at JGI headquarters in Washington, D.C. Continuing support from the university has allowed WCSU to maintain a very active group.\u00a0 Animal Week, International Peace Day and Earth Day are yearly campus events and WCSU&#8217;s Roots &amp; Shoots students attend leadership and educational conferences annually.<\/p>\n<p>Meetings of The Roots &amp; Shoots Club are held on Fridays at 3 p.m. in White Hall Room 026.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faculty Sponsor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Robert Whittemore<br \/>\n203-837-8461<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:whittemorer@wcsu.edu\">whittemorer@wcsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jane Goodall Center for Environmental Excellence fosters service-learning projects for students throughout the community by reaching out to help with after-school programs, animal shelters, environmental organizations and causes, nursing homes and food pantries. In 2005, WCSU was established as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"left-navigation.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/goodall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/goodall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/goodall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/goodall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/goodall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/goodall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/goodall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}