{"id":14427,"date":"2026-04-09T12:51:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=14427"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:56:35","slug":"augsburg-family-scholars-featured-on-national-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2026\/04\/09\/augsburg-family-scholars-featured-on-national-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg Family Scholars featured on national podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14428\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-09-at-12.40.28-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14428 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-09-at-12.40.28-PM-320x192.jpg\" alt=\"A graphic that includes Tim Pippert's headshot o the left (a middle aged man with a beard) and Samantha Mitchell on the right (a young adult with long dark hair)\" width=\"320\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-09-at-12.40.28-PM-320x192.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-09-at-12.40.28-PM-600x360.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Pippert and Savannah Mitchell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tim Pippert, Augsburg\u2019s Joel Torstenson endowed professor of sociology, and Graduate Assistant Savannah Mitchell recently highlighted <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/augsburgfamilyscholars\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Augsburg Family Scholars<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fieldcenteratpenn.org\/2026-field-center-aging-out-podcasts\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aging Out Podcast<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d Created by the University of Pennsylvania Field Center for Children\u2019s Policy, Practice, and Research\u2014the podcast explores the pathways, resources, and relationships that empower older youth in foster care as they navigate the journey into adulthood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pippert developed Augsburg Family Scholars for young people with foster care backgrounds to find community and support on their education journey. In the podcast, Mitchell highlights the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ohe.mn.gov\/grant-scholarship\/fostering-independence-higher-education-grants\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fostering Independence Grant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an initiative in Minnesota that pays for the cost of college tuition for students with foster care experience to reduce disparities faced by this population when pursuing higher education. Augsburg Family Scholars\u2019 holistic approach provides financial resources, academic mentoring, and community building to student participants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAugsburg Family Scholars works here because it takes an entire campus to do this really well,\u201d Pippert says in the podcast. \u201cWe work with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/admissions\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">admissions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. When admissions sees a student who identifies with having a foster care background, they let us know so we can reach out to them. When students have an issue with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/studentfinancial\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">financial aid<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we send them to WonWon Bjorklund in student financial services, and WonWon answers their questions, not a random person behind the counter. When we have an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/advising\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">academic advising<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> issue, Julie Froslan Ferralez takes care of it. Julie advises all of our scholars. Like WonWon, like Stephanie Ruckel and Stacey Severson in Admissions\u2014they\u2019re just wonderful people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fieldcenteratpenn.org\/2026-field-center-aging-out-podcasts\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Episode 11<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the 2026 Field Center Aging Out Podcasts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Pippert, Augsburg\u2019s Joel Torstenson endowed professor of sociology, and Graduate Assistant Savannah Mitchell recently highlighted Augsburg Family Scholars on the \u201cAging Out Podcast.\u201d Created by the University of Pennsylvania Field Center for Children\u2019s Policy, Practice, and Research\u2014the podcast explores the pathways, resources, and relationships that empower older youth in foster care as they navigate <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[253,102,255,254],"class_list":["post-14427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-augsburg-family-scholars","tag-faculty","tag-media","tag-podcast"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14427","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=14427"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14434,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14427\/revisions\/14434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}