{"id":2702,"date":"2008-03-27T11:14:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2008-03-27T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T16:14:18","slug":"augsburgs-senior-administrators-visit-nicaragua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2008\/03\/27\/augsburgs-senior-administrators-visit-nicaragua\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg&#039;s senior administrators visit Nicaragua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2684\" alt=\"nicaragua\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/04\/nicaragua.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/>President Pribbenow, members of the President&#8217;s Cabinet, and Regent Steve Sheppard have spent the past week at Augsburg&#8217;s Center for Global Education site in Managua, Nicaragua. In his March 24 weekly update, Pribbenow wrote, &#8220;The trip is a sign of my (and the Cabinet&#8217;s) commitment to CGE&#8217;s work around the world as a mission-based focus of Augsburg.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chief Information Officer Leif Anderson provided highlights of the group&#8217;s activities:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><\/strong>Met with a non-profit that works on behalf of the poor living in Managua&#8217;s city dump, and then we visited the area just outside the dump.<\/li>\n<li><strong><\/strong>Visited a neighborhood community center in an area where many CGE students do home-stay visits<\/li>\n<li><strong><\/strong>Drove by a tent city where farm workers who were poisoned by agricultural chemicals from American companies are squatting in protest<\/li>\n<li><strong><\/strong>Went to the national cathedral, the former presidential palace, and the Sandinista monument (Sandino looking out over Managua)<\/li>\n<li><strong><\/strong>Visited leading Nicaraguan economist Nestor Avenda\u00f1o at his home. Avenda\u00f1o studied at Yale and returned to Nicaragua, where he has been economic advisor to each president.<\/li>\n<li><strong><\/strong>Received different viewpoints on the free-trade agreements. One from the head of a farmer&#8217;s cooperative, who outlined the difficulties in the agreements. The other with ProNicaragua, an agency aimed at attracting foreign investors to locate business in Nicaragua.<\/li>\n<li><strong><\/strong>Attended a concert of the national symphony, playing at the community center in celebration of the center&#8217;s 25th year. The orchestra performed with a choir of kids from the neighborhood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Augsburg has maintained a study site in Nicaragua since 1984. In 2007, the Center for Global Education celebrated its 25th year of providing &#8220;cross-cultural educational opportunities in order to foster critical analysis of local and global conditions so that personal and systemic change takes place leading to a more just and sustainable world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To see what the Augsburg group is doing in Nicaragua, check out Leif Anderson&#8217;s photo journal at: <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/anderson.leif\/32008Nicaragua\"> picasaweb.google.com\/anderson.leif\/32008Nicaragua<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Pribbenow, members of the President&#8217;s Cabinet, and Regent Steve Sheppard have spent the past week at Augsburg&#8217;s Center for Global Education site in Managua, Nicaragua. In his March 24 weekly update, Pribbenow wrote, &#8220;The trip is a sign of my (and the Cabinet&#8217;s) commitment to CGE&#8217;s work around the world as a mission-based focus &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[543,1669,2108,2333,2421,2753],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-center-for-global-education","tag-leif-anderson","tag-nicaragua","tag-president-pribbenow","tag-regent-steve-sheppard","tag-study-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","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=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}