{"id":6835,"date":"2016-03-21T16:33:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T16:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6835"},"modified":"2016-03-21T16:33:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T16:33:47","slug":"spokesman-recorder-interviews-jennifer-jacobs-on-diversity-in-athletic-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/21\/spokesman-recorder-interviews-jennifer-jacobs-on-diversity-in-athletic-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder interviews Jennifer Jacobs on diversity in athletic administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Minnesota-Spokesman-Recorder-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6595\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Minnesota-Spokesman-Recorder-logo.png\" alt=\"Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder - logo\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Minnesota-Spokesman-Recorder-logo.png 160w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Minnesota-Spokesman-Recorder-logo-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder recently interviewed <strong>Jennifer Jacobs<\/strong>, assistant athletic director at Augsburg College, for an article\u00a0on the challenges present as colleges seek to increase the diversity of their coaching and administrative staff.<\/p>\n<p>In the article, Jacobs discusses some of the steps higher education administration can take to create a pipeline for people of diverse backgrounds to enter leadership roles. She notes that it is important for institutions to encourage women to seize new opportunities and to promote\u00a0candid conversations on difficult topics like race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Schools] need to find and foster the female student athletes that would want to get into coaching, administration \u2014 you name it, all the way up to the presidential level,\u201d Jacobs\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\">Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spokesman-recorder.com\/2016\/03\/13\/navigating-minnesota-nice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Navigating through Minnesota Nice<\/a>\u00a0on the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder recently interviewed Jennifer Jacobs, assistant athletic director at Augsburg College, for an article\u00a0on the challenges present as colleges seek to increase the diversity of their coaching and administrative staff. In the article, Jacobs discusses some of the steps higher education administration can take to create a pipeline for people of diverse backgrounds &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[239,849,3636,3785,3787],"class_list":["post-6835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-staff","tag-athletics","tag-diversity","tag-inclusion","tag-jennifer-jacobs","tag-minnesota-spokesman-recorder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6839,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions\/6839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}