{"id":10645,"date":"2021-09-07T16:16:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T16:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=10645"},"modified":"2021-10-14T20:29:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T20:29:52","slug":"announcing-el-hibri-endowed-executive-directorship-for-the-interfaith-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2021\/09\/07\/announcing-el-hibri-endowed-executive-directorship-for-the-interfaith-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing El-Hibri Endowed Executive Directorship for the Interfaith Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10649\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10649\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10649 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/09\/El-Hibri-image-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy and Fuad El-Hibri\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy and Fuad El-Hibri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Â̲èÖ±²¥ announces that a significant gift has been made for a new leadership position: the\u00a0<b>El-Hibri Endowed Executive Directorship for the Interfaith Institute<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>This new role is thanks to a gift from Fuad and Nancy El-Hibri. They\u00a0first learned of Augsburg while researching higher education options for their son Karim, who was in recovery from substance issues. The family has been actively engaged with the university since then and Karim\u00a0has meanwhile graduated from Augsburg&#8217;s StepUP program.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Â̲èÖ±²¥ established\u00a0<i>Interfaith at Augsburg: An Institute to Promote Interreligious Leadership<\/i>. This program illustrates the many ways in which our commitment to interfaith learning and leadership can shape our work on campus and in the wider community, and this work requires a strategic leader and distinguished scholar to provide direction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/giving\/2021\/09\/03\/the-el-hibri-family-to-fund-an-endowed-executive-directorship-for-augsburgs-interfaith-institute\/\">Learn more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Â̲èÖ±²¥ announces that a significant gift has been made for a new leadership position: the\u00a0El-Hibri Endowed Executive Directorship for the Interfaith Institute. This new role is thanks to a gift from Fuad and Nancy El-Hibri. They\u00a0first learned of Augsburg while researching higher education options for their son Karim, who was in recovery from substance &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,3231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-donors","category-media-advisories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10706,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions\/10706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}