{"id":11538,"date":"2024-08-22T20:56:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T20:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11538"},"modified":"2024-08-23T15:52:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T15:52:41","slug":"president-pribbenow-provost-oloughlin-interviewed-by-cnn-about-gwen-walz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2024\/08\/22\/president-pribbenow-provost-oloughlin-interviewed-by-cnn-about-gwen-walz\/","title":{"rendered":"President Pribbenow, Provost O\u2019Loughlin Interviewed by CNN About Gwen Walz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-22-at-12.52.54-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11539 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-22-at-12.52.54-PM.png\" alt=\"CNN logo: stylized white text on a red background\" width=\"156\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a>Augsburg University President Paul Pribbenow and Provost Paula O\u2019Loughlin spoke to national media this week about Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz\u2019s work at Augsburg. Both were interviewed for a CNN feature about Minnesota\u2019s First Lady in the lead-up to the 2024 Democratic National Convention, where Governor Tim Walz accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/21\/politics\/gwen-walz-minnesota-first-lady\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gwen Walz and Tim Walz are known as a team. But Minnesota\u2019s first lady has been a powerful force in her own right<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (CNN)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gwen Walz has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2023\/03\/15\/an-educator-and-catalyst-for-change\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">held appointments<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Augsburg as an instructor of education and a special assistant for strategic partnerships in the Office of the President since 2019. \u201c[W]hat she will say all the time, is, \u2018I\u2019ll make it happen,\u2019\u201d said O\u2019Loughlin. \u201cShe\u2019s very cognizant of how things affect other people all the time.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Thursday morning, Pribbenow appeared on CNN live to discuss Walz\u2019s background, commitments, and connections to Augsburg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Pribbenow Interviewed by CNN About Gwen Walz\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dt9Tx-ZxgPg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg University President Paul Pribbenow and Provost Paula O\u2019Loughlin spoke to national media this week about Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz\u2019s work at Augsburg. Both were interviewed for a CNN feature about Minnesota\u2019s First Lady in the lead-up to the 2024 Democratic National Convention, where Governor Tim Walz accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":11526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4040,4039,2237],"class_list":["post-11538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-cnn","tag-oloughlin","tag-paul-c-pribbenow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11538","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=11538"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11544,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11538\/revisions\/11544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}