{"id":14530,"date":"2026-05-12T14:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=14530"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:55:47","slug":"in-the-media-sahan-journal-highlights-augsburgs-resilience-during-operation-metro-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2026\/05\/12\/in-the-media-sahan-journal-highlights-augsburgs-resilience-during-operation-metro-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"In the media: Sahan Journal highlights Augsburg\u2019s resilience during Operation Metro Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This week, Sahan Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/sahanjournal.com\/education\/ice-minneapolis-augsburg-university-students\/\">published<\/a> an in-depth look at Augsburg\u2019s experience during and after Operation Metro Surge. Drawing on the voices of students, staff, faculty, and administrators, the article traces the community\u2019s response to a challenging year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Reporter Becky Dernbach wrote that President Paul Pribbenow has spent the last few months sharing the story of Augsburg\u2019s response to Operation Metro Surge\u2014supporting both students and the larger community\u2014with university presidents throughout the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I\u2019ve been very careful to say, we\u2019re hoping you don\u2019t have to face this,&#8221; Pribbenow said. &#8220;But there still are important lessons here about how a community can come together no matter what the challenge is.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He noted that students came back at a time when it would have been easy to stay away, and the school was able to continue its mission of education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;It\u2019s not just what we did on campus, but it\u2019s also how we embraced our neighbors,\u201d he said. \u201cIt could have gone in very different directions if people had not been supported, or they were too frightened to be here.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the article via Sahan Journal: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sahanjournal.com\/education\/ice-minneapolis-augsburg-university-students\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Caught in the crosshairs: How Augsburg University mobilized to protect students during the ICE surge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Sahan Journal published an in-depth look at Augsburg\u2019s experience during and after Operation Metro Surge. Drawing on the voices of students, staff, faculty, and administrators, the article traces the community\u2019s response to a challenging year.\u00a0 Reporter Becky Dernbach wrote that President Paul Pribbenow has spent the last few months sharing the story of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14530","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\/14530","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=14530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14534,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14530\/revisions\/14534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}