{"id":7310,"date":"2016-11-14T22:22:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=7310"},"modified":"2016-11-14T22:22:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:22:50","slug":"governor-declares-augsburg-college-equity-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2016\/11\/14\/governor-declares-augsburg-college-equity-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor declares \u2018Augsburg College Equity Day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7387\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/MN-Seal-2016.2.png\" alt=\"mn-seal-2016-2\" width=\"140\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/MN-Seal-2016.2.png 224w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/MN-Seal-2016.2-768x764.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/>Gov. Mark Dayton declared Aug. 29, 2016, \u201cAugsburg College Equity Day\u201d in recognition of the College\u2019s commitment to equity and justice, and its efforts to close the opportunity gap in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">President <strong>Paul Pribbenow<\/strong> met with leaders of the Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial board to discuss Minnesota\u2019s educational achievement gap among children and youth of diverse backgrounds. The state has one of the largest achievement gaps in the nation, and Augsburg is working to ensure all students of academic ability have access to higher education. The College\u2019s pledge to this work includes limited debt pathways to graduation, setting aside dedicated housing for homeless students, increasing financial aid literacy, supporting faculty in creating inclusive classrooms, and increasing access to course materials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The College was applauded for this leadership through a compelling editorial, \u201cAugsburg College leads the call for campus equity,\u201d written and published by the Star Tribune editorial board on Aug. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Mark Dayton declared Aug. 29, 2016, \u201cAugsburg College Equity Day\u201d in recognition of the College\u2019s commitment to equity and justice, and its efforts to close the opportunity gap in Minnesota. President Paul Pribbenow met with leaders of the Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial board to discuss Minnesota\u2019s educational achievement gap among children and youth of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":7380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-7310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-fall-2016"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310","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\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7310"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7388,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310\/revisions\/7388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}