Augsburg College student Marquell Moorer ’17 was featured in an聽NPR story describing the difficulty students and their families face聽in comparing college financial aid packages. Moorer was accepted into a dozen colleges and universities聽following high school, and he described the confusion he experienced when he聽attempted to assess his financial obligation to each institution.
Moorer was involved in College Possible, a college access program that Augsburg supports by offering scholarships for participants. College Possible helped Moorer in making his decision to attend Augsburg.
on the NPR website.
The Pioneer Press featured “Degrees of Freedom,” a new book by Professor of History聽William “Bill” Green, shortly after its release from University of Minnesota Press. In the book, Green “draws a picture of black experience in a northern state and the nature of black discontent and action within a predominantly white society, revealing little-known historical characters among the black men and women who moved to Minnesota following passage of the 15th Amendment,” according to veteran journalist Mary Ann Grossmann.
U.S. News & World Report recently published an article detailing common missteps among top employees, and one of the issues was identified by Augsburg’s own Dave Conrad,聽assistant director of the Augsburg College Master of Business Administration program at Rochester and associate professor in Rochester and Minneapolis.
In the聽WCCO-TV story “,” Commencement participant聽Promise Okeke ’15聽described his drive for an undergraduate degree and experiences at Augsburg.
Five days a week, Minneapolis community members convene at Bethany Lutheran Church to dine on gourmet fare聽prepared as part of the Soup for You Cafe — a program recognized by the Star Tribune聽for its ability to “redefine the soup kitchen.”
The question, “What are universities for?” elicited a number of responses in a recent article compiled by Zocalo Public Square and聽published by TIME. Harry Boyte, Augsburg鈥檚 Sabo Senior Fellow, argued that colleges and universities聽should renew their democratic purpose, thereby highlighting聽the important role聽these institutions play聽as public spaces for diverse interests and views to find common ground in a sharply divided society.