{"id":11295,"date":"2023-06-20T19:47:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T19:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11295"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:16:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:16:42","slug":"augsburg-receives-2023-eduventures-innovation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/20\/augsburg-receives-2023-eduventures-innovation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg Receives 2023 Eduventures Innovation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/06\/Augsburg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11301 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/06\/Augsburg-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A woman and two men stand in front of a brick wall. The man in the middle is holding a plaque and smiling.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/06\/Augsburg-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/06\/Augsburg-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/06\/Augsburg-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/06\/Augsburg-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/06\/Augsburg-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Augsburg was among three universities recently honored for making bold moves to improve access, equity, and inclusion in higher education. Encoura, an educational data science and research organization,\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/encoura.org\/innovation-for-access-equity-inclusion-2023-eduventures-innovation-awards\/\"><span class=\"s2\">announced the winners<\/span><\/a> of the annual Innovation Awards Program at Eduventures Summit 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Augsburg was recognized for the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3Of8mjxivxA\">Augsburg Applies to You<\/a> enrollment management approach, implemented in Fall 2022. This multi-pronged initiative seeks to create a more equitable and sustainable college admissions system through direct admissions, student success coaching, and inclusive academic belonging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAugsburg Applies to You aims to lower barriers, foster a culture of belonging, and ultimately change systems to address historically rooted inequities in higher education,\u201d said Augsburg President Paul Pribbenow. \u201cI want to recognize the courage and commitment of our strategic enrollment management division staff, every one of whom took ownership of the project and contributed to its successful launch this year.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Now in its seventh year, the Eduventures Innovation Awards Program honors organizations and teams that are shaping the future of higher education. Eduventures received a record number of submissions that showcased innovative and transformative projects this year. Entries are designed to identify higher education institutions that have demonstrated significant innovations when developing and deploying programs that impact enrollment, student experience, or outcomes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMore than ever, global society relies on innovation to help evolve humanity and make our lives more productive, healthy, and equitable,\u201d said Cara Quackenbush, Encoura\u2019s executive vice president of research. \u201cWe are thrilled to be honoring the institutions that have created new, actionable, and innovative programs that are changing the landscape for higher education and their shared commitment of serving their student bodies and the larger community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Read the full announcement from Encoura<\/span><span class=\"s4\"> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/firstyear\/inquire-and-apply\/\"><span class=\"s5\">learn more about Augsburg Applies to You<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg was among three universities recently honored for making bold moves to improve access, equity, and inclusion in higher education. Encoura, an educational data science and research organization,\u200b announced the winners of the annual Innovation Awards Program at Eduventures Summit 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts.\u00a0 Augsburg was recognized for the Augsburg Applies to You enrollment management &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":11301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3228,3231],"tags":[3995,3998,944],"class_list":["post-11295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kudos","category-media-advisories","tag-augsburg-applies-to-you","tag-direct-admissions","tag-enrollment-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11295","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11598,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11295\/revisions\/11598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}