{"id":11579,"date":"2024-10-15T15:31:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T15:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11579"},"modified":"2024-10-15T15:31:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T15:31:17","slug":"pribbenow-advocates-for-higher-educations-public-purposes-in-the-star-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2024\/10\/15\/pribbenow-advocates-for-higher-educations-public-purposes-in-the-star-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Pribbenow Advocates for Higher Education\u2019s Public Purposes in the Star Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-15-at-10.29.46\u202fAM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11580 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-15-at-10.29.46\u202fAM-300x36.png\" alt=\"Minnesota Star Tribune logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"36\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-15-at-10.29.46\u202fAM-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-15-at-10.29.46\u202fAM-768x92.png 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2024-10-15-at-10.29.46\u202fAM.png 897w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/in-a-time-of-skepticism-higher-eds-public-purposes-matter\/601162250?utm_source=gift\">guest commentary<\/a> published by the Minnesota Star Tribune, Augsburg President Paul Pribbenow argued that urban colleges and universities are uniquely positioned to cultivate an inclusive democracy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhat does it look like for higher education to be place-based, to settle into urban settings and be good neighbors, and to believe that our academic missions compel us to both educate students and care about the world into which they will graduate?\u201d he wrote. \u201c&#8230; It\u2019s not simply a matter of sending individual students out into the city. One-way engagement is not sustainable. Instead, place-making work only succeeds if it is grounded in mutual benefit with community partners.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The article marks the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cumuonline.org\/cumu-annual-conference\/\"><span class=\"s2\">annual Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities conference<\/span><\/a>, co-hosted this year in Minneapolis by Augsburg, Metro State University, St. Paul College and the University of Minnesota.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1KRNFZQ8F-uG2QbTAh6ejXzsmGY9PkjlE\/view?usp=sharing\">Read the full article: \u201cIn a time of skepticism, higher ed\u2019s public purposes matter\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a guest commentary published by the Minnesota Star Tribune, Augsburg President Paul Pribbenow argued that urban colleges and universities are uniquely positioned to cultivate an inclusive democracy.\u00a0 \u201cWhat does it look like for higher education to be place-based, to settle into urban settings and be good neighbors, and to believe that our academic missions &#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":[2241,2692],"class_list":["post-11579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-paul-pribbenow","tag-star-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11579","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=11579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11581,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11579\/revisions\/11581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}