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ear alumni and friends,<\/p>\nDear alumni and friends,<\/p>\n
As my second\u00a0year as Alumni\u00a0Board President\u00a0comes to a close, I\u00a0look back on the past\u00a0several months with\u00a0gratitude for what\u00a0the Alumni Board\u00a0has accomplished. We hope you have enjoyed\u00a0recent alumni events, both on campus and off.<\/p>\n
At the start of my tenure, when I challenged\u00a0the Alumni Board to change, not a little, but\u00a0a lot, everyone stepped up to the plate and\u00a0went to work. Today the board maintains\u00a0more committees with fewer people on each,\u00a0operates with clearly defined goals for each\u00a0committee, and sustains a high level of\u00a0engagement. We\u2019ve also partnered with staff\u00a0throughout the College to increase the board\u2019s\u00a0effectiveness and relevance.<\/p>\n
The Alumni Board continues to seek new\u00a0pathways to connect with students, whether\u00a0through mentoring, visiting classrooms, or\u00a0simply sharing tips on LinkedIn. Students\u00a0have said they enjoyed taking part in a\u00a0Homecoming lunch last fall where they had\u00a0the chance to share a table with distinguished\u00a0alumni who pursued similar fields of study.\u00a0We also held another successful Auggie\u00a0Networking Experience in February, and if you\u00a0couldn\u2019t make it to campus, you\u2019ll find some\u00a0tips for reluctant networkers<\/a> in another story in this issue.<\/p>\n In June, we transition board leadership. I\u2019d\u00a0like to welcome Nick Rathmann \u201903 <\/span><\/strong>as Alumni\u00a0Board President for the 2017-19 term. He\u00a0is full of energy, has a passion for Augsburg,\u00a0and is a dynamic leader with innovative ideas\u00a0to take the Alumni Board even further. He is\u00a0the athletic director at The Blake School, a\u00a0longtime supporter of Augsburg as a member\u00a0of the A-Club, and an all-around amazing\u00a0volunteer. The Alumni Board is in great hands\u00a0under his leadership.<\/p>\n I\u2019d also like to recognize Greg Schnagl \u201991<\/span><\/strong>,\u00a0who has led our Networking Committee for\u00a0the past two years. His passion for creating\u00a0meaningful connections between students and\u00a0alumni has helped make the Auggie Networking\u00a0Experience event bigger and better.<\/p>\n I recently moved away from the Twin Cities\u00a0for work, and I am so pleased to see alumni\u00a0events scheduled across the U.S. more often.\u00a0In the past two years, alumni gatherings\u00a0have occurred in Denver, Las Vegas, Raleigh,\u00a0Washington, D.C., and other cities. If you\u2019re in\u00a0the Minneapolis area, we hope to see you at\u00a0some of this summer\u2019s exciting alumni events!<\/p>\n Jill Watson \u201910 MBA<\/strong>, Alumni Board President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear alumni and friends, As my second\u00a0year as Alumni\u00a0Board President\u00a0comes to a close, I\u00a0look back on the past\u00a0several months with\u00a0gratitude for what\u00a0the Alumni Board\u00a0has accomplished. We hope you have enjoyed\u00a0recent alumni events, both on campus and off. At the start of my tenure, when I challenged\u00a0the Alumni Board to change, not a little, but\u00a0a lot, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,73],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-7654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-auggies-connect","tag-spring-summer-2017"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654","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=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8109,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions\/8109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}