{"id":259736,"date":"2017-09-07T06:06:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T20:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=259736"},"modified":"2017-09-07T06:06:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T20:06:52","slug":"uog-welcomes-students-first-fanuchanan-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-welcomes-students-first-fanuchanan-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"UOG welcomes students to first Fanuch\u00e5nan semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/UOG-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/UOG-pix-300x94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"94\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-259739\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The University of Guam welcomes nearly 4,000 students to its first ever Fanuch\u00e5nan semester. Beginning this academic year, the fall and spring semesters have been officially renamed Fanuch\u00e5nan and Fa\u00f1omn\u00e5kan respectively.  <\/p>\n<p>Fanuch\u00e5nan literally means \u201ca place for rain\u201d and represents the rainy season. The Fanuch\u00e5nan semester runs from August to December.<\/p>\n<p>Spring has been renamed Fa\u00f1omn\u00e5kan, which means \u201ca place for sunshine\u201d and represents the dry season. The semester runs from January to May.<\/p>\n<p>Spearheaded by UOG president Robert Underwood, the change reflects the island\u2019s tropical environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUOG is unique in that we are the only U.S. accredited institution of higher education dedicated to serving Guam and the Micronesian region,\u201d said Underwood. \u201cThe [Chamorro] spirit and heritage of Unibetsed\u00e5t Guahan is also unique, and as a way to share this uniqueness with the world, our semesters have been renamed in the [Chamorro] language.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The fall Intersession has been renamed Tinalo\u00b4, which means \u201cin the middle.\u201d Summer Sessions A, B, C are now Finakpo\u00b4 1, 2, 3, which means \u201cat the end.\u201d       <\/p>\n<p>The university has also produced an explainer video about the change, which can be viewed on the UOG website at www.uog.edu or on Youtube at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M3ZZlypoXoc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Guam welcomes nearly 4,000 students to its first ever Fanuch\u00e5nan semester. Beginning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":259739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[37,51,1330,445],"class_list":["post-259736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","category-pacific","tag-education-2","tag-guam","tag-robert-underwood","tag-uog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}