{"id":10960,"date":"2022-07-18T15:31:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=10960"},"modified":"2022-07-28T18:34:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T18:34:28","slug":"inside-higher-ed-spotlights-augsburgs-new-admissions-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2022\/07\/18\/inside-higher-ed-spotlights-augsburgs-new-admissions-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Higher Ed Spotlights Augsburg\u2019s New Admissions Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/07\/ihe-logo-2018.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10963 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/07\/ihe-logo-2018.png\" alt=\"Inside HIgher Ed\" width=\"234\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a>Robert Gould, vice president for strategic enrollment management, recently spoke to Inside Higher Ed about Augsburg\u2019s participation in a Minnesota direct admission pilot program. Through the program, students in 50 high schools will be automatically admitted to participating colleges and universities based on GPA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This move is part of a broader shift at Augsburg from a \u201cgatekeeper\u201d model of admissions to an enrollment experience focused on student belonging. Going forward, Gould said, admissions counselors will have more time to spend on outreach, financial aid, and supporting students rather than evaluating them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cPart of the mission here is supporting democracy,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is about sharing power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The piece was the latest in a series on direct admissions in higher education. Read the full article in Inside Higher Ed: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/admissions\/article\/2022\/07\/18\/direct-admissions-takes-individual-colleges\"><span class=\"s2\">Direct Admissions Takes Off<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Gould, vice president for strategic enrollment management, recently spoke to Inside Higher Ed about Augsburg\u2019s participation in a Minnesota direct admission pilot program. Through the program, students in 50 high schools will be automatically admitted to participating colleges and universities based on GPA.\u00a0 This move is part of a broader shift at Augsburg from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,3994,3828,1369],"class_list":["post-10960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-admissions","tag-belonging","tag-equity","tag-inside-higher-ed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10970,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions\/10970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}