{"id":9570,"date":"2019-12-30T17:39:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T17:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=9570"},"modified":"2020-07-17T16:05:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:05:55","slug":"star-tribune-features-augsburgs-successful-efforts-to-attract-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2019\/12\/30\/star-tribune-features-augsburgs-successful-efforts-to-attract-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Tribune Features Augsburg&#8217;s Successful Efforts to Attract Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9573\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/01\/ows_157757083136304.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9573\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/01\/ows_157757083136304.jpg\" alt=\"Large group of Fall 2019 freshmen posing for a photo\" width=\"255\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/01\/ows_157757083136304.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/01\/ows_157757083136304-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/01\/ows_157757083136304-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/01\/ows_157757083136304-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augsburg&#8217;s first-year class entering fall 2019 is the largest and most diverse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Augsburg University President Paul Pribbenow was interviewed by the Star Tribune\u2019s Evan Ramstad about how Augsburg is working to attract the diverse students who will be the workforce of the future as population growth is to slow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us, it was about getting a larger share of the market from the communities where there was growth happening,\u201d Pribbenow said.<\/p>\n<p>Augsburg recently added new majors, a women&#8217;s wrestling team, and the Hagfors Center for Science, Business, and Religion to attract students.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/life-in-the-2020s-slower-growth-will-be-the-new-normal-in-minnesota\/566538412\/\">Star Tribune.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg University President Paul Pribbenow was interviewed by the Star Tribune\u2019s Evan Ramstad about how Augsburg is working to attract the diverse students who will be the workforce of the future as population growth is to slow. \u201cFor us, it was about getting a larger share of the market from the communities where there was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570","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=9570"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10083,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/revisions\/10083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}