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Call for Proposals – Symposium in Kigali, Rwanda

Go to Kigali, Rwanda to present your work, share your research, and generate knowledge at the SIT Symposium “Conflict, Memory, and Reconciliation: Bridging Past, Present, and Future” January 10 - 13, 2012. The objective is to explore together the meeting points of memory studies and of post conflict, peace building, and reconciliation studies, and generate knowledge about the pedagogy and ethics in teaching post-conflict in a study abroad setting.

If you desire to present, abstracts of your session are due June 1, 2011. In addition to the symposium, there will be a site visit to Kigali Genocide Memorial with focus on the pedagogy of teaching memory, peace building, reconciliation, and social justice.

Details are available at http://www.sit.edu/symposium.

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Teaching and Technology Tapas Workshop Wednesday

Tapas are small plates of delicious food eaten as appetizers or combined to form a meal shared with friends. Similarly, our Teaching and Technology Tapas are tasty bite-sized topics presented in 3 to 5 minute segments. You can drop by for just a few topics or stay to experience an entire workshop. Please join us for:

"Teaching and Technology Tapas"
Wednesday, May 4 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Christensen Center Riverside Room

About the Workshop
Your LFC team and guest presenters will share a variety of tools and resources that can be applied in your day-to-day activities and in special projects that arise. The presentation will be informal so please feel free to come and go as your schedule allows - we've designed the program with this in mind! Community lunch participants are welcome. Content is appropriate for users with all levels of computing experience.

We look forward to seeing you!

A collection of Teaching and Technology Tapas topics can be found on the Tapas moodle community site. Go to moodle community and enter 'tapas' in the search field near the bottom of the page.

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Master Leadership in a New Way

Thinking about a graduate degree? Now there's a new way to earn your Master of Arts in Leadership (MAL) at Augsburg!

Starting this summer, the MAL is being offered in Augsburg's new Integrated Graduate Studies format. Our integrated programs combine two intensive summer classes, monthly face-to-face sessions and online learning to create a high impact learning experience that offers the flexibility that many graduate students need. Garry Hesser will start the program this summer with a five-day on campus class that explores leadership in our Cedar-Riverside neighborhood.

Whether you choose our new integrated format or the classic classroom format that has been one of Augsburg's premier programs for over twenty years, an MAL from Augsburg will help you develop professional leadership skills that will prepare you for success in your workplace and community. Now there are two ways to earn this outstanding degree!

Interested? You can:
1) Attend an information session on May 17 from 4-7pm at Target Field - here's the link http://www.augsburg.edu/admissions/inthecity/index.html
2) View the program web site for more information – here's the link http://www.augsburg.edu/admissions/mal/academics/integrated.html
3) call Nancy Shaeffer in Graduate Admissions at 612 330-1520

Hope to see you in MAL in the fall!

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Lindell Library Exam and Graduation Week Hours

During this final exam and graduation week, Lindell Library will be open:
Monday - Wednesday, May 2- 4 -- 8 am - 1 am
Thursday, May 5 -- 8 am - 7 pm
Friday, May 6 -- 8 am - 5 pm
Saturday, May 7 -- 10 am - 6 pm
Sunday, May 8 -- Noon - 6 pm

Hours are always available on the Lindell Library web site: www.augsburg.edu/library

Online library resources are also available 24/7 on that web site.

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Auggies Master Making a Difference

Do you want to make a difference in the world? Are you a creative individual with an entrepreneurial spirit? If you answered yes to both of these questions, a future as a social entrepreneur might be the fit you've been looking for. Augsburg's new Graduate Certificate in Social Entrepreneurship can help you get there.

Social entrepreneurs are people who don't believe you have to choose between doing well financially or doing good in the world. They create businesses and organizations that help solve social problems while providing a sound living to the people who work for them. Our graduate certificate is a series of six classes that will teach you about social entrepreneurship and give you the vital business and leadership skills you need to start your own social enterprise. And, if you choose, you can continue on with graduate work after you have completed the certificate and apply the classes and credits to a full MBA or MAL degree.

Interested? You can:
1) View the program web site for more information – here's the link http://www.augsburg.edu/admissions/mba/academics/socialentrepreneur.html
2) Call Bruce Batten, Program Director, at 612-330-1645

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WL Schedule: Finals Week, May, and Summer

Visit the Writing Lab and help us reach a record-breaking 2000 student visits this academic year!

The Writing Lab will maintain its regular hours through the last shift of the spring semester on Wednesday (May 4) of finals week and close at 9 PM. The lab will open again on a May/Summer schedule on Monday, May 9, for the following May/summer schedule:

4:30 - 6 PM on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays:

May 9 - May 26
Memorial Day Holiday (closed)

May 31 - June 30
Fourth of July Holiday (closed)

July 5 - August 11

If you have questions, please contact Professor Swanson, English Department.

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LSAT Test Prep Registration Now Open

If you are interested in Law School, please join the Office of Undergraduate Research and Graduate Opportunity for an LSAT prep course this Spring. Our course instructor scored in the top 1% of test-takers and has taught LSAT seminars for 14 years. Most corporate tutors charge $175/Hour! URGO offers this 3-week course for only $150. It's never too early to take this course, even if you are just thinking about Law School.

The course meets Wednesdays from 6-9 PM for three weeks (May 11, 18 & 25) in Oren Gateway Center 113. The cost is only $150, which includes test prep materials; this is a fraction of the cost when compared to similar classroom GRE prep courses offered by Kaplan or the Princeton Review who charge over $1,000.

Alums and non-Augsburg students are also welcome to register.

Online registration is now open at the following web site: http://www.augsburg.edu/urgo/gre_prep_reg.html

Questions? Contact Dixie Shafer, URGO Director: shafer@augsburg.edu

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Creating an Inclusive Campus – May 9-11 Conference

For All Faculty, Staff, and Leaders
Co-Sponsored by CTL, General Education, the Center for International Programs, Human Resources, Academic Affairs, and Student Affairs

Once a year we gather together to share what we are doing to create an inclusive campus and to plan future initiatives. Previously known as the Diversity and Global Learning conference, this event focuses on a wide range of issues associated with making intentional diversity a reality at Augsburg College.

Monday, May 9, 8:30-4:30 (Chapel and OGC 113, 200, and 201) – Opening and Concurrent Sessions
Join us for a continental breakfast in the Foss Atrium before the opening session in the Chapel. The initial session, led by Michael Grewe, will focus what it means to be an ally with our LGBTQIA communities at Augsburg, what Augsburg is doing, and what we need to do. After lunch, there will be concurrent sessions divided into three tracks: Engaging All Students, Embedding Diversity and Global Learning, and Developing Our Community. Sessions led by faculty, staff, students, and administrators will address how inclusive we are, how to engage students in recovery from addiction, how to embed diversity and global learning in curricular and co-curricular experiences, how to raise issues of sexuality in the classroom, new approaches to hiring diverse faculty, and what we do when something goes wrong.

Tuesday, May 10, 8:00-4:30 (OGC 113, 200, and 201) – Concurrent Sessions
Join us for a continental breakfast in the OGC Atrium before continuing concurrent sessions. The track on Engaging All Students will include sessions on how to differentiate instruction and engage ESL students, politically and economically diverse students, and students with psychiatric disabilities. The Embedding Diversity and Global Learning track will feature sessions on exploring “Isms,” talking about race, addressing vocation and religious pluralism, and building intercultural competence. The Developing Our Community track will include a two-part exploration of a model for nonviolent communication and a two-part session on understanding our neighbors.

Wednesday, May 11, 9:00-3:00 – Working Sessions
Working sessions will be held with departments to debrief the conference and departmental diversity initiatives, and plan actions to integrate what they've learned into departmental plans. The sessions will be organized as follows:

Arts & Sciences, OGC 114 (Amy Gort and Lori Brandt Hale, facilitators)
Graduate & Professional Studies, OGC 113 (Lori Peterson and Velma Lashbrook, facilitators)
Staff, OGC 202 (Andrea Turner and Ann Garvey, facilitators)

Every department is expected to have at least two representatives at the working session.

So that we can ensure proper arrangements, please rsvp indicating the dates you plan to attend and the meals in which you will partake. Send your rsvp to lashbroo@augsburg.edu

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Scholarly Writing Retreat

Dunrovin Retreat Center, May 16-18, 2011

The Center for Teaching and Learning invites faculty to participate in the second annual Scholarly Writing Retreat at Dunrovin. The retreat gives scholars time and space to work on scholarship, undistracted by meetings, classes, or even children and family responsibilities. Last year, many participants came specifically to plan an approach to a new project; it was an opportunity to focus new ideas so that participants could spend the summer further developing these projects. And for some, it was a chance to finish articles that they had been working on during the year; one person, for example, used the time to complete a piece for publication.

Comments from last year's attendees:

"I can honestly say that I was able to get more quality writing done in the 48 hrs. we were there than any time since my sabbatical."
"The group that went to Dunrovin was wonderfully supportive of each other, and the environment seemed to make everyone's work productive."

The retreat will take place Monday, May 16 at 10 am through Wednesday, May 18 at 3pm. There are 15 openings. First come, first served - those who attended last year are welcome to sign up again. There will be no charge for participants. Please email lashbroo@augsburg.edu to sign up.

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Graduation Skills Workshops

Co-Sponsored by CTL and General Education
May 6 and 19, 2011

All faculty who teach a course designed to develop one of the graduation skills – critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, writing, or speaking – are expected to participate in a workshop for each of the skills they are responsible for teaching. These workshops clarify the graduation requirement, and discuss strategies for teaching the skill, constructing activities and assignments to develop the skill, and providing assessments and feedback on skill development. This year's graduation skills workshops are scheduled as follows:

Friday, May 6, OGC 114
1:00-2:30 pm - Writing (Kathy Swanson and Jennifer Bankers-Fulbright)
3:00-4:30 pm - Speaking (Kristen Chamberlain and Darcey Engen)

Thursday, May 19, OGC 114
8:30-10:00 am - Critical Thinking (Bruce Reichenbach and Mary Lowe)
10:30-12:00 am - Quantitative Reasoning (John Zobitz and Stacy Freiheit)

These workshops are co-sponsored by General Education and the Center for Teaching and Learning. Please rsvp to lashbroo@augsburg.edu to indicate which workshops you will attend.

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Fulbright Scholars – Applications due August 1

The application deadline for 2012-2013 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Competition is August 1, 2011. Visit www.cies.org/ for detailed award announcements, application and guidelines.

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Staff Development Series

Creating a Culture of Innovation and Excellence

This spring, CTL is launching the first of three parts of a development series designed for academic and administrative staff. The first set of workshops will deal with different aspects of creating a culture of innovation and excellence; providing you with a model or framework for thinking about the topic, conversations about what it means in practice, and exercises to help you begin to apply it to your work. The sessions are held from 3:00-5:00 pm every other Tuesday during the regular academic year and once a month during the summer.

The remaining workshops scheduled for Spring and Summer 2011 are:

May 3, 2011, 3:00-5:00, Marshall Room – Collaborating Across Boundaries (Jessica Fox-Wilson and others)
May 9-10, 2011, 8:30-4:30 – Creating an Inclusive Campus conference (formerly the Diversity and Global Learning Conference)
June 7, 2011, 3:00-5:00, OGC 114 – Summer Group Dialogues (Jessica Fox-Wilson)
July 12, 2011, 3:00-5:00, OGC 114 – Summer Group Dialogues (Jessica Fox-Wilson)
August 2, 2011, 3:00-5:00, OGC 200 – Summer Group Dialogues (Jessica Fox-Wilson)

Hosts and Organizers: Jessica Fox-Wilson and Julio Vargas/TBD
Please rsvp to lashbroo@augsburg.edu to ensure proper arrangements are made for each session and that your place is reserved.

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Register Now for On-Campus GRE Prep

GRE Prep is offered this summer on campus through the Office of Undergraduate Research and Graduate Opportunity. You'll learn the most effective ways tackle the Verbal, Quantitative, and Analytical Writing sections on the GRE.

The course meets Tuesdays from 5:30-8:00 PM for six weeks (May 31; June 7, 14, 21, 28; July 12, 19) in Kennedy room 303. The cost is only $75, which includes test prep materials; this is a fraction of the cost when compared to similar classroom GRE prep courses offered by Kaplan or the Princeton Review who charge over $1,000.

Alums and non-Augsburg students are also welcome to register.

Online registration is now open at the following web site: http://www.augsburg.edu/urgo/gre_prep_reg.html

Questions? Contact Dixie Shafer, URGO Director: shafer@augsburg.edu

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Portfolio Workshop

For Faculty Preparing for CTP Reviews
May 13, 9:00-3:00 pm, OGC 100

The purpose of this workshop is to help candidates for any type of Committee on Tenure and Promotion (CTP) review to determine the various forms of evidence that can help build a strong portfolio. The focus is on evidence of teaching, but the strategies directly apply to scholarship and service as well. This workshop is not designed to replace departmental guidance and advice nor is it an analysis of the Faculty Handbook language as it applies to an individual. It does not represent the views of the CTP committee; rather, this is a long standing CTL workshop to help support candidates' preparation and is one that many colleagues have found useful. The workshop is facilitated by Diane Pike and Su Doree. Participants are encouraged to form groups to review each other's portfolio materials and provide feedback and support following the workshop.

If you plan to attend this session, please rsvp to lashbroo@augsburg.edu

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Final Yoga Session Today

Today is the last yoga session for this year. Please come to the Wrestling Room in Kennedy Center from 12 noon - 1:00 pm today. Feel free to bring your own mat and wear comfortable clothing.

Yoga will resume again in September. Many thanks to those of you who participated throughout the year. We have a survey that we would like to get your feedback on regarding the yoga class. Here is the link for that survey:
http://augsburg.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_2azryQ9OfTnf3sE

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the CCHP office at 612-330-1707. Have a safe and well summer. See you next Fall.

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New Course in Native Literature for Fall

This coming fall AIS and English will offer a new Native literature course: ENL/AIS 355 Topics in American Indian Literature: Native Voices of Minnesota. The class meets Tuesday-Thursday 1:30-3:00.

We will be reading works by American Indian authors either from Minnesota or whose work is set in Minnesota, which explore the issues of identity, land, and migration/movement across physical and political borders. Because American Indian literature does not exist in isolation from the experiences of Native peoples, this course also includes analysis of the ways in which the authors' works reflect and illuminate American Indian culture, traditions, and interaction with non-Native groups. Students will focus on primary texts, comparing and contrasting these themes and the voices, aesthetic styles, and cultural emphases of the authors.

For more information contact M. Elise Marubbio at marubbio@augsburg.edu

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Sell Your Books Back Now

Don't forget to sell back your books the week of finals for up to 50% back! Must have Augsburg ID!!

RENT your textbooks - coming Fall 2011 - visit www.whywaitforbooks.com to order! Like the Augsburg College Bookstore Facebook Page between now and May 6th for a chance to win a $25.00 gift card.

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May Cap and Gowns, Please Pick up at the Bookstore

If you are graduating in May - you may stop by the bookstore to purchase your cap and gown! If you did not order - just come in asap to get your size.

June graduates - your gowns will be ready in mid-May. Check A-mail soon for dates. Congratulations!

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Bookstore Hours for Summer and Other Info

Bookstore hours for summer will begin next week. Our hours are Monday-Friday 10 am - 3 pm WEC college Fridays we are open till 6 pm and WEC college Saturdays 10:30-1.

Jansport buy one get one half off sale is this week!

Summer books may be purchased online now at www.whywaitforbooks.com

Bookstore accounts will close Saturday May 7th. Bookstore accounts will not be open through the summer.

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ART 290: Tribal Art and Culture Summer Session I

Looking for an art history class this summer that fulfills LAF requirements?
ART290: Tribal Art and Culture is for you! The class meets T-TH 1:00-4:30 Summer Session I

Tribal Arts and Culture - An exploration of the rich heritage of visual arts from Indigenous communities of North America, surveying the dynamic nature of Native American art spanning from pre-European contact into the present while exploring the political nature of that trajectory as it encounters cultural change, Western aesthetics, and Western concepts of art. Students will meet Native artists, visit a variety of Native American art galleries and exhibitions, and learn about the cultural, social, and political context surrounding a Native American art.

For more information contact M. Elise Marubbio at marubbio@augsburg.edu

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Fall and Summer Book Orders are Now Due

The semester is winding down and we need your book request as soon as possible. Please help us give the best value for our students. We will be heavy into buyback next week as well as ordering Fall books. Ordering early helps us to get used copies. Please email your request to me at forgey@augsburg.edu Thanks to all who have submitted!

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Kelly Pryga Selected as Kemper Scholar

Kelly Pryga, a first year Augsburg student majoring in Business Management with a minor in Political Science, has been selected for the prestigious Kemper Scholars Program. The scholarship program has been sponsored by the James S. Kemper Foundation of Chicago, Illinois, since 1948. Augsburg was selected this fall to be one of the sixteen liberal arts colleges around the country who participate in the Kemper Scholar Program. The program aims to promote education in the liberal arts while providing students opportunities for career exploration and practical experience. Dr. Ryan LaHurd, President and Executive Director of the James S. Kemper Foundation, describes Kemper Scholars as academically superior, community spirited, committed, and well-rounded undergraduates from a group of excellent liberal arts colleges. Kemper Scholars receive annual scholarships during their sophomore, junior, and senior years of college and stipends to cover the costs of their work as interns in major nonprofit organizations in Chicago during the summer following their sophomore year and during the summer following their junior year in a for-profit corporation. In addition, all Kemper Scholars attend an annual national conference to discuss summer internship projects, meet with former Kemper Scholars, and consider topics on leadership, service, ethics, and non-profit and business administration. Kelly was recommended for the scholarship by Professor Andy Aoki and is in the Augsburg Honors Program, is an active volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, was recently selected to be an AugSem Student Leader as well as an Augsburg Writing Lab tutor, and loves art museums and cooking

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Estate Sale - Augsburg Associates - May 6 & 7

Come out and support the work of the Augsburg Associates. They will be facilitating a sale on Friday MAY 6, and Saturday MAY 7. Many usable household items, glassware, lamps, dishes, kitchen utensils. Mid-century Danish-style dining room table, occasional tables & chairs. Basement treasures: vintage toolbox, 8” table saw, power tools, hand tools, early croquet set in wooden box, ice box.

CORRECTED HOURS
9:00 am-4:00 pm Friday
9:00 am-3:00 pm Saturday

1519 LAKEVIEW CURVE
EAGAN, MN

Directions: 35E to Yankee Doodle Road, west on Yankee Doodle Rd to Federal Drive. Take Federal Dr south to Lakeview Curve. Turn right to 1519.

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Dining Services

Hours of operation for finals week:

Coopers:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday: 7:30am-8:00pm
Thrusday & Friday: 7:30am-3:00pm

A-Club Grill:
A Club will close for the season after lunch at 2:00opm on Wednesday.

Nabo:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday: 7:30am-8:00pm
Thursday & Friday: 7:30pm-3:00pm

All locations are closed this weekend.

Summer Hours will begin Monday May 9th.
Nabo: 10am-2:00pm
Coopers: 7:45am-1:00pm

Today is the last day to "like" us on facebook and be registered to win a $50 gas card.

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An Evening of Student Directed Pieces

Come and see what the Stage Directing students have been up to this semester!

The evening will consist of 9 students Final Directing Scenes and cover a wide variety of styles. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll have FUN! Come and take a little break from Finals Week and enjoy some theater!

When: 7:00 pm - Wednesday, May 4
Where: Tjornhom-Nelson Theater
ADMISSION IS FREE!!

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Three Week Marathon Ulysses Reading

Tuesday, 5/3, 3:00PM

Chapter: Circe, in the style of a play.

Intermissions at 4:30 and 6:30

Cast: The Entire Class

Location: Film Studio

FREE

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Spring Social--Save the Date

The Office of the President and Staff Senate invites you to join us at a Spring Social in the Quad for staff and faculty on Monday, May 23, from 3 to 5 p.m.

The Spring Social will replace the annual Staff Senate Summer Picnic. It is our hope that this social time will become an annual end-of-year celebration much like the holiday party in December.

More details to come...

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First Wednesday Gathering

Please join faculty and staff colleagues for First Wednesday Gathering on Wednesday, May 4, in the East Commons from 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

The security and custodial night shift employees are invited to the Wednesday Evening Gathering at 8 p.m. in the Augsburg Room.

The first-Wednesday-of-the-month gatherings support our commitment to building community and practicing common work. They are an opportunity to get to know one another, exchange ideas, and collaborate in new ways. We hope you will invite your colleagues and plan to join us!

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Twins Tickets for Tuesday

I have four Twins tickets for next Tuesday's game that I'm not going to be able to use. They are in the Left Field Bleachers, section 131, row 11. They are great seats and are under the upper-deck seats, so if there is rain, you stay dry. The game is at 7:10 against Detroit, and the tickets are $21 each. I'm willing to sell them in pairs as well. E-mail if interested.

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