  {"id":8279,"date":"2018-04-05T22:52:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T22:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8279"},"modified":"2018-04-05T22:53:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T22:53:55","slug":"8279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/05\/8279\/","title":{"rendered":"Moody\u2019s revises Augsburg University\u2019s outlook to stable and affirms Baa3 credit rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moody\u2019s Investor Service today revised Augsburg University\u2019s outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the University\u2019s Baa3 credit rating.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Moody\u2019s cited Augsburg\u2019s improved liquidity, effective fiscal oversight, successful fundraising, diverse program offerings, and urban Twin Cities location as strengths supporting its credit opinion. The report also noted that Augsburg continues to operate in a highly competitive student market and has moderately high debt relative to cash and investments.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis favorable outcome is a great accomplishment, and one we\u2019ve worked hard to achieve,\u201d said Augsburg President Paul C. Pribbenow. \u201cIt\u2019s a reflection of Augsburg\u2019s competitive strengths &#8212; including our distinct market identity and diverse enrollment &#8212; as well as our intentional, sustained efforts driving dramatic improvements in liquidity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moodys.com\/research\/Moodys-revises-Augsburg-Universitys-MN-outlook-to-stable-and-affirms--PR_904530749?WT.mc_id=AM~RmluYW56ZW4ubmV0X1JTQl9SYXRpbmdzX05ld3NfTm9fVHJhbnNsYXRpb25z~20180405_PR_904530749\">See the April 5, 2018 Moody\u2019s news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moody\u2019s Investor Service today revised Augsburg University\u2019s outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the University\u2019s Baa3 credit rating. Moody\u2019s cited Augsburg\u2019s improved liquidity, effective fiscal oversight, successful fundraising, diverse program offerings, and urban Twin Cities location as strengths supporting its credit opinion. The report also noted that Augsburg continues to operate in a highly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8280,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279\/revisions\/8280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}