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Soomaal Fellowship Showcases Pandemic Work of Two Emerging Artists

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MPLSART.com recently interviewed Khadija Charif and Yasmin Yassin, two Soomaal House of Art fellows whose solo exhibitions are on display through December 14 in the Augsburg Galleries.聽

Photographer Yasmin Yassin鈥檚 show, 鈥淪hould Be Good Times,鈥� explores her journey towards motherhood during quarantine, taking viewers physically through a womb-like space with photographs hung from the ceiling.聽

鈥淚 thought, 鈥榃hat if you have to go in and experience the exhibit by using your body and moving through it?鈥欌�� she told MPLSART.com. 鈥淵ou start at the beginning of this hallway-like gallery space and go all the way down, but you have to move through the pieces as well, and it gets narrower as you go. I wanted to provide that darkness and enclosure, to try and recreate the feeling of spending all that time in my apartment.鈥�

Artist and Poet Khadija Charif鈥檚 show, 鈥淪trangers of My Sight鈥擨n Truth and In Trial鈥� explores 鈥渢he kindness, love, and short companionship that strangers provide.鈥� The exhibit includes a private space with two chairs and a set of cards which present compelling quotes and questions for visitors to explore.聽

鈥淲hat I hope is that this space allows others to explore conversations with a stranger,鈥� said Charif. 鈥淕rab someone you鈥檇 like to know, invite them to the table and ask questions. Not the light questions that bore us but the questions that excite us and allow us to deconstruct the barriers we naturally set when we meet strangers.鈥�

The Soomaal Fellowship is a collaboration between Augsburg Galleries聽and Soomaal House of Art, a Somali artist collective in the Seward neighborhood, that aims to harness the power of art as a tool for intellectual and civic engagement by advocating and advancing the creative development of Somali visual artists. The partnership will continue with new fellows showcasing their work on Augsburg鈥檚 campus every 18 months.

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Augsburg Outpaces Other Minnesota Schools in Diversity Growth, Business Journal Reports

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海角社区 experienced the largest percent increase in nonwhite students among any college or university in Minnesota over the past decade, according to data analyzed by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. The analysis looked at institutions with more than 1,000 students using data from the Department of Education.聽

Augsburg President Paul Pribbenow was interviewed about the changes. “We are still a predominantly white institution in terms of structure and leadership, though that’s changing,” he said. “So we’ve had to do a lot of important training and intercultural work, knowing that these students are coming to us [with] a very different life experience. And they come to us with different kinds of needs and expectations.”

He attributed much of the growth in Augsburg鈥檚 diversity to its relationships with local high schools. Nearly 70% of Augsburg鈥檚 most recent entering undergraduate class identified as nonwhite.

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Podcast: Augsburg Enrollment Leaders Talk College Access

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Headshots of Robert Gould and Stephanie Ruckel on a green and orange background with white text reading, "Enrollment Edge: the enrollmentFUEL podcast. Episode 45: Robert Gould & Stephanie Ruckel"Robert Gould, vice president for strategic enrollment management, and Stephanie Ruckel, director of admissions operations, joined host Jay Fedje as featured guests on a recent episode of the Enrollment Edge podcast by enrollmentFUEL.聽

The episode focused on the power of direct admissions鈥攁 simplified approach in which students are admitted based on high school GPA, in some cases before they have even applied鈥攖o break down college access barriers.聽

鈥淓ssentially, what we鈥檙e trying to do is remove as many barriers as we can for students, and give them the most options to enroll in whatever institution is a good place for them,鈥� said Ruckel. 鈥淲hen you start thinking about the student鈥檚 perspective, you can start questioning the [admissions] process a little bit differently. Why are we requiring these things? How are we using this data? Are we using this information?聽

鈥淭he challenge in doing this is really stripping down the application鈥攎aking sure we are collecting what we need to collect, but keeping it as simple as possible.鈥�

Augsburg鈥檚 participation in pilot programs with the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and the Common App, as well as significant changes to the Augsburg application itself, puts the university at the leading edge of this new policy movement.聽

鈥淚 want to credit the whole team,鈥� said Gould. 鈥淲e鈥檝e literally taken the admissions process and the system and changed it in one cycle. We had some good thoughts about how it fulfilled our mission as an enrollment division, but I think more importantly, people had the appetite for it鈥攚anting to build deeper relationships and wanting to eliminate barriers for all students.鈥�

Listen to the episode here: Direct Admission: Unpacking College Access

The Wall Street Journal Highlights Augsburg鈥檚 海角社区 Approach

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The Wall Street Journal wordmark in black text.The Wall Street Journal highlighted Augsburg鈥檚 efforts to streamline and simplify the admissions process in a recent article about the growth of direct admissions.聽

鈥満＝巧缜� in Minnesota is participating in direct-admission pilots with the Common Application and with the state of Minnesota, and cut its own application to be completed in an average of seven minutes,鈥� noted reporter Melissa Korn.聽

The piece quotes a Richfield high school senior who received several college offers through Direct 海角社区 Minnesota, the state鈥檚 pilot program. Augsburg has already connected with 184 students through the state pilot, nearly half of whom weren鈥檛 previously on the school鈥檚 radar. As of early November, the shift to direct admissions has accompanied a 44% increase in applications over last year.聽聽

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Augsburg 鈥淚sn鈥檛 Waiting鈥� on Direct 海角社区, Reports Inside Higher Ed

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Inside Higher Ed logo, white letters on orange backgroundInside Higher Ed recently featured Augsburg in a piece on the growth of direct admissions. While the article cites Minnesota as one of the states with the most movement toward direct admissions this year, Augsburg stands out for its comprehensive move away from traditional admissions practices.聽

鈥淎ugsburg admissions counselors are shifting their time from reviewing applications to talking to those admitted about the university and what the students hope to accomplish there. Those are the discussions that motivated many of them to become admissions counselors,鈥� according to Robert Gould, vice president for strategic enrollment management.聽聽

鈥淚t鈥檚 a dream come true,鈥� Gould said.

The piece was the latest in a series on direct admissions in higher education. Read the full article in Inside Higher Ed:

Learn more about Augsburg Applies to You,聽Augsburg’s new belonging-centered enrollment approach.

 

“Ground Zero for Police Reform”: Professor Michael Lansing on Minneapolis Police Chief Search

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Local media have turned to Augsburg professor Michael Lansing for historical context as the city of Minneapolis prepares to hire a new police chief.聽

鈥淕iven the recent events, the murder of George Floyd as well as the uprising here in Minneapolis, there鈥檚 no question that the selection of a police chief is intensely important,鈥� Lansing told reporter Jay Koll on last week.聽

The three finalists for Minneapolis police chief all come from outside of Minnesota鈥攁 rarity in recent decades. 鈥淣ot only is it unusual, it鈥檚 noteworthy because that only tends to happen when the city has been through some kind of intense experience around policing and public safety and police-community relations,鈥� said Lansing, who is writing a book on the history of policing in Minneapolis. He is also the co-founder, with Dr. Yohuru Williams at the University of St. Thomas, of the 鈥淥verpoliced and Underprotected in MSP鈥� project.聽

鈥淗istory never repeats itself, but sometimes it rhymes,鈥� Lansing told . 鈥淭his is one of those examples when we鈥檙e hearing some rhyming: the call for outsiders, the desperate pleas for help to change the culture that you find across the city, in communities of color, in advocacy organizations, on city council, and in the mayor鈥檚 office. And yet what鈥檚 different is that you have a rearrangement of the actual administrative structure,鈥� with the city’s newly-appointed Commissioner of Public Safety in place.

鈥淚 think this is ground zero for police reform in the United States.鈥澛�

Read more from Michael Lansing: 鈥�Policing Politics: Labor, Race, and the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, 1945鈥�1972鈥� (Minnesota History magazine, 2021)

APM Reports Project on Indigenous Students Features Reuben Kitto Stately 鈥�22

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The APM Reports logo is a solid red circle with a lowercase r and a period in white text in the middle.A new audio documentary from APM Reports highlights how four Indigenous college students are using higher education to strengthen ties to their Native roots and support their people. One of the students the project follows is Reuben Kitto Stately 鈥�22. In his segment, Stately also interviews Associate Professor Eric Buffalohead, chair of American Indian, First Nations, and Indigenous studies.

鈥淚 was pretty dead set on American Indian studies by the time I was in 10th grade,鈥� says Stately. “I knew that American Indian studies would help me fill in the gaps for all the times in which I don鈥檛 understand colonization here in America鈥攈ow have Native people from all these different nations all become American, in what ways have we totally assimilated, in what ways have we resisted?

鈥淔or my whole education, I have known that whatever I learn here at Augsburg, I鈥檓 going to take back to my people. To me, it鈥檚 an act of resistance because you鈥檙e able to indigenize new space or you strengthen the space that your people are already in.鈥�

Listen to via APM Reports or the Educate podcast.

Inside Higher Ed Spotlights Augsburg鈥檚 New 海角社区 Approach

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Inside HIgher EdRobert Gould, vice president for strategic enrollment management, recently spoke to Inside Higher Ed about Augsburg鈥檚 participation in a Minnesota direct admission pilot program. Through the program, students in 50 high schools will be automatically admitted to participating colleges and universities based on GPA.聽

This move is part of a broader shift at Augsburg from a 鈥済atekeeper鈥� model of admissions to an enrollment experience focused on student belonging. Going forward, Gould said, admissions counselors will have more time to spend on outreach, financial aid, and supporting students rather than evaluating them.聽

鈥淧art of the mission here is supporting democracy,鈥� he said. 鈥淭his is about sharing power.鈥�

The piece was the latest in a series on direct admissions in higher education. Read the full article in Inside Higher Ed:

Professor Tim Pippert Interviewed About Diversity Marketing in The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Tim Pippert, Augsburg鈥檚 Joel Torstenson endowed professor of sociology, was recently interviewed for The Chronicle of Higher Education about how some colleges attempt to create the appearance of a more diverse student body than they actually have. The article cited a paper in which Pippert and his co-authors analyzed more than 10,000 photographs from the admissions brochures of 165 four-year colleges. The 2013 study found that Black students were overrepresented in admissions brochures by nearly twice their actual numbers on campuses.

One implication of the findings, Pippert said, is that over-representing minorities in marketing materials could hurt students who choose to attend colleges expecting more diversity than actually exists.

Spotlight on Green Chemistry at Augsburg

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An organic chemist with a focus on systems-level thinking, Associate Professor Michael Wentzel is out to make science more sustainable.

鈥淐hemistry doesn鈥檛 have to be the solution to the problems it created鈥攊t could just not create them,鈥� he says in the June 2022 cover story in Private University Products and News Magazine.

to learn more about Wentzel鈥檚 path from his family鈥檚 Iowa hardware store to chairing Augsburg鈥檚 chemistry department, how green chemistry is 鈥渂enign by design,鈥� and why he鈥檚 on a mission to improve science communication.