{"id":9346,"date":"2019-04-22T14:35:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T14:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=9346"},"modified":"2023-02-08T20:29:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T20:29:16","slug":"media-coverage-worth-mentioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2019\/04\/22\/media-coverage-worth-mentioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Media coverage worth mentioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h2>A NEIGHBORLY GESTURE<\/h2>\n<p>Augsburg University students distributed jackets, blankets, children\u2019s toys, and meals to families in need at a homeless encampment near Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis in November. \u201cIt\u2019s basically in [Augsburg\u2019s] backyard, and helping the community is a really big thing for me,\u201d student<strong> Tyler Johnson \u201922<\/strong> told Fox 9 reporter Christina Palladino. This day of service was the brainchild of Augsburg student <strong>Inam Al-Hammouri \u201920<\/strong>, and other students quickly joined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCooking a hot lunch and serving it to hungry families out in the cold is not something most college kids would do on a Saturday, but these youth at Augsburg University are not just your average students,\u201d the Fox 9 reporter said. \u201cThe students believe it is their responsibility to take action and empower their generation to build bridges to those less fortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>A NOTEWORTHY LINEUP<\/h2>\n<p>Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder journalist Charles Hallman wrote about this year\u2019s Augsburg University women\u2019s basketball team when its starting lineup included five African-American students\u2014a moment believed to be a first in Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play.<\/p>\n<p>Augsburg University students <strong>Arianna Jones \u201920<\/strong>, <strong>Camille McCoy \u201920<\/strong>, <strong>Tamara McLenore \u201920<\/strong>, <strong>Camryn Speese \u201920<\/strong>, and <strong>Kaezha Wubben \u201920<\/strong> made history at the November 19 game against the University of Wisconsin\u2014 Superior, the story said.<\/p>\n<h2>AN ARTFUL COLLABORATION<\/h2>\n<p>The artwork in Augsburg\u2019s Norman and Evangeline Hagfors Center for Science, Business, and Religion always captivates eyes. Recently, the collection also attracted the ears of Minnesota Public Radio listeners. That\u2019s because MPR highlighted the successful partnership between Augsburg and Forecast Public Art, which helped guide the university\u2019s effort to commission original art for the campus\u2019 newest academic building. Now in its 40th year, Forecast Public Art is regarded as one of the nation\u2019s leading nonprofits committed to community- engaged design and placemaking. Augsburg benefitted from the organization\u2019s expertise as the university worked to acquire art to reflect the diverse communities that make up the Augsburg student body and to knit together the various academic disciplines housed in the Hagfors Center. Today, the facility has more than 25 art pieces on its walls and six works of art built into its structure.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>[Web extra]: Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/\">augsburg.edu\/news<\/a> to learn more about the university\u2019s media buzz.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[Top image]:The three-story mural \u201cEmergence\u201d adorns the Hagfors Center\u2019s west stairwell.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A NEIGHBORLY GESTURE Augsburg University students distributed jackets, blankets, children\u2019s toys, and meals to families in need at a homeless encampment near Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis in November. \u201cIt\u2019s basically in [Augsburg\u2019s] backyard, and helping the community is a really big thing for me,\u201d student Tyler Johnson \u201922 told Fox 9 reporter Christina Palladino. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":9401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-9346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-spring-summer-2019"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9346"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12397,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346\/revisions\/12397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}