{"id":7796,"date":"2017-08-30T20:03:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T20:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=7796"},"modified":"2017-09-07T13:26:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T13:26:29","slug":"advisory-augsburg-officially-becomes-augsburg-university-welcomes-most-diverse-class-in-148-year-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/30\/advisory-augsburg-officially-becomes-augsburg-university-welcomes-most-diverse-class-in-148-year-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Advisory: Augsburg officially becomes \u2018Â̲èÖ±²¥,\u2019  welcomes most diverse class in 148-year history"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>University\u2019s first-year undergraduate class more than 53 percent persons of color<\/h3>\n<p>(MINNEAPOLIS) &#8212; <strong>As Augsburg celebrates becoming \u201cÂ̲èÖ±²¥\u201d on Sept. 5, it also welcomes an incoming first-year undergraduate class of more than 53 percent persons of color.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAs \u2018Â̲èÖ±²¥,\u2019 we embrace our leadership role as a university at the forefront of intentional diversity, equity, and inclusion,\u201d said Â̲èÖ±²¥ President Paul C. Pribbenow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud and grateful to welcome to our community the Class of 2021, made up of students of academic ability from an array of diverse backgrounds &#8212; including ethnicity, faith, socioeconomic status, gender identity, and more. We know that learning in a diverse community prepares young people to become engaged, thoughtful citizens, and problem solvers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Â̲èÖ±²¥ celebration at the Minneapolis campus includes food stations and opportunities for getting an Â̲èÖ±²¥ logo T-shirt screen printed on-site, participating in a photo booth, assembling hygiene kits for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/nursing\/health-commons\">Augsburg Health Commons<\/a>, which serves unsheltered persons who live in Minneapolis, and more. On Sept. 18, the Â̲èÖ±²¥ teaching site in Rochester, Minn., will host a special ribbon-cutting to celebrate more than 20 years of providing graduate and undergraduate programs in that community.<\/p>\n<h4>PROGRAM and PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>9:20 a.m.: Faculty and staff line up along 22nd Avenue South to applaud students as they process into Hoversten Chapel, Foss Center, for the Opening Convocation.<\/li>\n<li>9:30 a.m.: Opening Convocation in Hoversten<\/li>\n<li>10:30 a.m.: Kick-Off Celebration and Lunch in the Quadrangle<\/li>\n<li>11:30 a.m.: \u00a0Â̲èÖ±²¥ President Paul Pribbenow formally launches Â̲èÖ±²¥<\/li>\n<li>12:30 &#8211; 1 p.m.: First-Year Students Begin Service Projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>ADDITIONAL FACTS<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Augsburg measures diversity beyond ethnicity and culture<\/strong> and welcomes persons in our community of diverse faiths, gender identities, socioeconomic backgrounds, learning styles, and military commitments. <strong>Nearly 10 percent of students self-identify as Muslim<\/strong>. More than <strong>11 percent self-identify as LGBTQIA<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>On Sept. 5, the Class of 2021 will donate nearly $35,000 in service work at more than 20 locations in Minneapolis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>ABOUT AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY<\/h4>\n<p>Â̲èÖ±²¥ offers more than 50 undergraduate majors and nine graduate degrees to nearly 3,600 students of diverse backgrounds at its campus in the vibrant center of the Twin Cities and the Rochester site. Augsburg educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders. An Augsburg education is defined by excellence in the liberal arts and professional studies, guided by the faith and values of the Lutheran church, and shaped by its urban and global settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University\u2019s first-year undergraduate class more than 53 percent persons of color (MINNEAPOLIS) &#8212; As Augsburg celebrates becoming \u201cÂ̲èÖ±²¥\u201d on Sept. 5, it also welcomes an incoming first-year undergraduate class of more than 53 percent persons of color. \u201cAs \u2018Â̲èÖ±²¥,\u2019 we embrace our leadership role as a university at the forefront of intentional diversity, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3231],"tags":[286,3952,611,849,3636,2188],"class_list":["post-7796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-advisories","tag-augsburg-health-commons","tag-augsburg-university-kickoff","tag-city-service-day","tag-diversity","tag-inclusion","tag-opening-convocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7796"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7809,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796\/revisions\/7809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}