{"id":9477,"date":"2019-11-08T19:17:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T19:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=9477"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:27:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:27:48","slug":"twin-cities-business-covers-urban-investors-at-augsburg-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/08\/twin-cities-business-covers-urban-investors-at-augsburg-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Cities Business Covers Urban Investors at Augsburg University"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Augsburg President Paul Pribbenow (left), Urban Investors founder Peter Heegaard, and Mike Christenson celebrated the Urban Investors program last month at a reception at Augsburg. Twin Cities Business.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The new program director of Urban Investors at Augsburg University, Mike Christenson, was previously a\u00a0key member of former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak\u2019s administration, Twin Cities Business reported.<\/p>\n

Urban Investors, which recently moved to Augsburg, creates experiential learning opportunities for bankers and finance professionals who spend a year learning about urban issues to catalyze investment and community development that moves families out of poverty, revitalizes neighborhoods, improves schools, and builds economic opportunity. More information about the program can be found at this<\/span> blog post<\/span> published by Augsburg’s Sabo Center.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Christenson told Twin Cities Business that he plans to work with students interested in banking careers and connect them to bankers in Urban Investors as well as other bankers he knows.\u00a0\u201cBusiness is one of the top majors at Augsburg,\u201d Christenson said in the article. “Many Twin Cities-based banks \u201care getting white male candidates\u201d for open positions, and they want to diversify their workforces. It\u2019s very exciting for me to be involved in something that develops the next generation of leadership.”<\/p>\n

Read the full article at the Twin Cities Business website.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The new program director of Urban Investors at Augsburg University, Mike Christenson, was previously a\u00a0key member of former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak\u2019s administration, Twin Cities Business reported. Urban Investors, which recently moved to Augsburg, creates experiential learning opportunities for bankers and finance professionals who spend a year learning about urban issues to catalyze investment and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9477"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12001,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477\/revisions\/12001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}