In a published by the Minnesota Star Tribune, Augsburg President Paul Pribbenow argued that urban colleges and universities are uniquely positioned to cultivate an inclusive democracy.聽
鈥淲hat does it look like for higher education to be place-based, to settle into urban settings and be good neighbors, and to believe that our academic missions compel us to both educate students and care about the world into which they will graduate?鈥� he wrote. 鈥�… It鈥檚 not simply a matter of sending individual students out into the city. One-way engagement is not sustainable. Instead, place-making work only succeeds if it is grounded in mutual benefit with community partners.鈥�
The article marks the upcoming , co-hosted this year in Minneapolis by Augsburg, Metro State University, St. Paul College and the University of Minnesota.聽