{"id":13950,"date":"2025-09-29T15:21:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=13950"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:26:54","slug":"star-tribune-features-augsburgs-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2025\/09\/29\/star-tribune-features-augsburgs-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Tribune features Augsburg&#8217;s &#8216;transformation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a September 27 commentary by business columnist Evan Ramstad, the Minnesota Star Tribune highlighted Augsburg&#8217;s transformation over the past decade into Minnesota&#8217;s most diverse private institution\u2014a shift made possible by building stronger relationships with local communities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are the city college,\u201d Pribbenow said. \u201cThere are still people who worry about quotas, like how can we say we\u2019re a Lutheran college if we don\u2019t have as many Lutherans. What I really want to say is we have the values of the Lutheran tradition, both the faith and intellectual tradition. This is our mission. These are the students we have in front of us.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article via the Star Tribune: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/ramstad-augsburg-universitys-transformation-brings-growth-political-risk\/601459800?utm_source=gift\">&#8220;Ramstad: Augsburg University\u2019s transformation brings growth, political risk&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a September 27 commentary by business columnist Evan Ramstad, the Minnesota Star Tribune highlighted Augsburg&#8217;s transformation over the past decade into Minnesota&#8217;s most diverse private institution\u2014a shift made possible by building stronger relationships with local communities. &#8220;We are the city college,\u201d Pribbenow said. \u201cThere are still people who worry about quotas, like how can <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13950","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13963,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13950\/revisions\/13963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}