{"id":7285,"date":"2016-09-02T17:38:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T17:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=7285"},"modified":"2020-03-04T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:46:09","slug":"wcco-story-showcases-augsburg-colleges-diverse-incoming-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/09\/02\/wcco-story-showcases-augsburg-colleges-diverse-incoming-class\/","title":{"rendered":"WCCO story showcases Augsburg College&#8217;s diverse incoming class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report airing on WCCO radio\u00a0noted that as students of\u00a0all ages returned to school this fall, \u201cAugsburg welcomed the class of 2020, with staff greeting students as they walked into the chapel for convocation.\u00a0However, the class of 2020 had a special distinction \u2013 they are the most diverse class the college has seen, with more than 45 percent of them being students of color.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Augsburg College <strong>President Paul Pribbenow<\/strong>\u00a0explained, \u201cFor Augsburg, that means that our commitment to diversity, to inclusion and [our] commitment to justice is actually being lived out by the students who come here to be part of our community,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read and listen:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2016\/08\/29\/augsburg-college-freshman-class\/\">Augsburg College Welcomes Most Diverse Freshman Class Ever<\/a>\u00a0on the WCCO website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report airing on WCCO radio\u00a0noted that as students of\u00a0all ages returned to school this fall, \u201cAugsburg welcomed the class of 2020, with staff greeting students as they walked into the chapel for convocation.\u00a0However, the class of 2020 had a special distinction \u2013 they are the most diverse class the college has seen, with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7,8],"tags":[849,3636,2332,3087],"class_list":["post-7285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","category-staff","category-students","tag-diversity","tag-inclusion","tag-president-paul-pribbenow","tag-wcco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7285"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9808,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions\/9808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}