{"id":12363,"date":"2023-03-15T14:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=12363"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:22:46","slug":"augsburg-awards-king-harald-v-of-norway-honorary-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2023\/03\/15\/augsburg-awards-king-harald-v-of-norway-honorary-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg awards King Harald V of Norway honorary degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12638\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12638 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/03\/King_Norway_President_Pribbenow.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/03\/King_Norway_President_Pribbenow.png 200w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/03\/King_Norway_President_Pribbenow-768x1152.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>King Harald V of Norway<\/strong> (left) and Augsburg&#8217;s president, <strong>Paul Pribbenow<\/strong>, meet in Oslo. (Photo by Queen Sonja)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Late last year in Oslo, Augsburg President <strong>Paul Pribbenow<\/strong> conferred upon <strong>King Harald V of Norway<\/strong> the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply grateful for Your Majesty\u2019s abiding support of Augsburg University and our sister Norwegian-American colleges and universities throughout the more than three decades of your reign,\u201d Pribbenow said in his ceremonial remarks. \u201cWe share both a common heritage and profound commitments to peacemaking and global citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His Majesty King Harald V of Norway acceded to the throne January 17, 1991. The king and his wife, Queen Sonja, visited Augsburg in 2011. This recognition\u2014originally scheduled for 2020 but delayed by the pandemic\u2014was part of Augsburg\u2019s sesquicentennial anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Top image: An Augsburg student participating in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/norwayhub\/\">Norway Hub<\/a> wears a Norwegian flag while walking through campus. (Photo by Courtney Perry)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year in Oslo, Augsburg President Paul Pribbenow conferred upon King Harald V of Norway the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa. \u201cWe are deeply grateful for Your Majesty\u2019s abiding support of Augsburg University and our sister Norwegian-American colleges and universities throughout the more than three decades of your reign,\u201d Pribbenow said <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":12637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-12363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-winter-2022-23"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12363"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12651,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions\/12651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}