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Heating Season
Due to the recent cold snap, the Facilities Department has completed the seasonal changeover to heating mode earlier than normal. For spaces that have local control, thermostats should be set to 68 degrees F and left there for the heating season. If you experience abnormally cold temperatures in any space, please do not "crank" the thermostat up; instead, submit a work request. We appreciate your help in reducing our energy bills!
The Facilities Department is currently processing work orders to remove window air conditioners, so please be patient with your requests for removal. If the unit in your area has not been removed or serviced by 11/15/12, please feel free to contact us at that time.
Also, additional items for sale will be posted on the Facilities Recycle Bin Moodle site this week. Please check them out if you are looking for some bargains.
Teaching and Learning
Leadership Conversations for Chairs
Don Chu's The Department Chair's Primer: What Chairs Need to Know and Do to Make a Difference
Facilitators: Joan Kunz and Merilee Klemp
Schedule:
October 18, 3:40-5:00 p.m., OGC 103
January 24, 3:40-5:00 p.m., OGC 100
February 21, 3:40-5:00 p.m., OGC 100
The Department Chair Primer provides the practical information that chairs need to do their jobs well. Many of the book's ideas come from practicing chairs and are proven strategies for dealing with a variety of issues. Each chapter details a particular problem, includes a brief introduction to the topic, provides tips on how to deal with the situation, and concludes with targeted questions for further consideration. Its concise format is ideal for busy chairs who need a brief but informative resource.
The readings will serve as a catalyst for conversations among chairs about how to be more effective.
If you'd like to attend, RSVP to ctl@augsburg.edu and pick up a book from Sarah Hedstrom. Let her know if you prefer to receive an e-book.
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Community Reading Circle
Seth Godin's Linchpin: An Unsettling Call to Be Indispensable
Community Building Series for all faculty and staff
Facilitator: Ashok Kapoor
Schedule: Thursdays, 3:30-5:00 p.m. (October 18, November 15, February 7, and March 14)
Location: Augsburg Room
In our society linchpins are those individuals that hold things together. Yes, organizations might succeed or thrive for a while without them, but eventually as pressure is applied and structures are tested, things will fall apart. Godin clearly illustrates that we are in a critical time in history when a new breed of worker and leader are required. We need linchpins to solve our problems, keep us connected, and inspire us with art. People who are linchpins are creative, good at connecting with others, and able to see solutions like no one else. They truly are indispensable.
As Seth Godin explains this concept to his readers, he turns their minds upside down in order to convince them that they are in some way capable of being one. He explains how we got here, criticizing the public education system for creating cogs to fill factories and consumers to buy what they produce. He argues that we get exactly what we focus on. In the end we wind-up with drones that do what they are told.
There is no shortage of pundits today that criticize the flaws of our education system, but few will offer a solution. He challenges teachers to inspire student to think instead of follow rule books and ace tests. He even goes as far as telling us to give ourselves a D for the rut we have fallen into.
Linchpin could be Mr. Godin's greatest work so far. He treats the subject with history and sociology as well as a compelling mix of fact, story and philosophy. Using examples that will both shock and inspire, Linchpin leaves you feeling like you have no choice but to reassess your current situation and make the changes he so eloquently urges us toward.
If you'd like to attend, RSVP to ctl@augsburg.edu and pick up a book from Sarah Hedstrom. Let her know if you prefer to receive an e-book.
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Using Social Explorer
"How to Use Social Explorer: Learn a Powerful but Easy Tool to Enhance your Teaching and Research!"
Led by Lars Christiansen and Nancy Fischer, Sociology and Metro-Urban Studies
Friday, October 19, 3:45-4:45 p.m. SVE 204
Refreshments provided.
Social Explorer is an easy to use, web-based tool that allows the user to locate Census data spatially. Augsburg has secured the Premium version of Social Explorer, which means that we (students, staff, and faculty) have access to census data all the way from the 1700s to 2010, including American Community Survey data from years between the Census.
Social Explorer is an easy-to-use, and easy-to-teach online tool with application possibilities in all of our fields. For the social sciences and history, this is a program that can provide detailed and general data on any place in the United States since the Census began. For our colleagues in Business, this is a great tool for doing research on potential markets. For our colleagues in Admissions, this could be useful for getting a more detailed picture of where our current and potential students are coming from.
We are enthusiastic about Social Explorer and want you to know how to use it as well! The opportunities for our students to make use of this are outstanding.
The number of variables that are available for mapping on Social Explorer is truly astonishing, and extremely easy to map. Join us for an hour and let us show you how!
Please contact Lars Christiansen (christil@augsburg.edu) or Nancy Fischer (fischern@augsburg.edu) if you have any questions.
If you'd like to attend, RSVP to ctl@augsburg.edu.
Leadership Reading Circle
Julie Clow's The Work Revolution: Freedom and Excellence for All
Leadership Series for all chairs, managers, and supervisors
Facilitator: Paul Terrio
Schedule: Tuesdays 8:30-10:00 a.m. (November 6, December 4, January 8, February 5, March 5, April 2)
Location: Augsburg Room
Embrace connectivity, increase empowerment, and achieve better work-life blending.
We live in a new age of global organizations, hyper-access to information, and accessibility to tools that enable us to bring any idea life. Strangely, our workplaces are lagging behind the promise of this open and collaborative world. Most organizations are rule-based, top-down, dreary environments optimized for conformity and little else. The Work Revolution creates a compelling portrait of a different kind of work.
"I believe freedom in the workplace is worth fighting for and every person and every organization can be excellent."
Julie Clow articulates the rules we follow today in our work force, the reasons they no longer work, and what we can do instead. The Work Revolution deconstructs the magic behind thriving, liberated organizations (such as Google, which is repeatedly named as the Best Workplace) into clear principles that any individual, leader, and organization can adopt to create sustainable and engaging lives.
Provides actionable changes anyone can make, regardless of where they work, to create a more sustainable work-life blend
Details concrete ways to influence existing organizations to change
Guides leaders to make tangible changes in their teams to enable greater autonomy and impact
Outlines organizational culture principles that support and nurture high-performance and healthy environments, providing clear options for instituting cultural change based on specific organizational challenges
Rejecting productivity Band-Aids and quick fixes, The Work Revolution conceptualizes a completely new workplace that embraces the always-connected reality to create organizations in which high achievers can sustainably thrive.
If you'd like to attend, RSVP to ctl@augsburg.edu and pick up a book from Sarah Hedstrom. Let her know if you prefer to receive an e-book.
Take an Extra Credit in Winter Break - Abroad
Need an extra credit this year? Consider studying abroad over winter break and add another credit to your academic year -- plus you'll experience a new culture, have fun over break, and get to know a group of Auggies really well!
The deadline for the following two winter break programs has been extended to October 15--NEXT MONDAY. There is still time to apply, come in to see us!
1. Indigenous Nation Building and History in Bolivia
January 3-12, 2013
WST/AIS 305 or AIS 490 or HIS 350
1 credit
Fulfills: AugExperience, WST/AIS 305/490 fulfills Keystone, HIS 350 fulfills HIS, IR, CCS major electives
Faculty: Michael Lansing & Elise Marubbio
https://studyabroad.augsburg.edu/?go=bolivia2013
2. Vocation & Christian Faith: El Salvador
January 3-13, 2013
REL 480
1 credit
Fulfills: AugExperience, Keystone for some majors, including BUS, and a REL Elective
Faculty: Bev Stratton
https://studyabroad.augsburg.edu/?go=vocation2013
Managing Time and Tasks at Work
Staff Development Series: Managing Time and Tasks at Work
Date: Tuesday, October 16
Time: 8-9:30 a.m.
Place: Oren Gateway Center 103
RSVP online at: http://augsburg.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_72Nf3rwg8kIDNGd
Join us to explore a few different systems for managing time, email, and
priorities during this practical, hands-on session! You will learn about
Stephen Covey's methods for prioritization, as well as David Allen's Getting
Things Done methodology for stress-free productivity. During the session, you
will capture some of the "open loops" in your professional life and explore a
tool for effective prioritization. We will also dive into practical tips for
managing your GroupWise email more effectively and efficiently as well as
explore a few different tools for tracking "to-dos."
About the facilitators:
Rick Gubash works in the CLASS Office where (among many other things) he coaches students on time management and prioritization to guide them to academic success.
Andrea Dvorak is the coordinator for faculty-led programs abroad in the Office of International Programs. She is a practitioner of the Getting Things Done methodology in her own work life as she tracks the comprehensive status of multiple overseas trips at any given time.
Questions? Contact Tracy Christianson or Erin Voss. The Staff Development Series is co-sponsored by Human Resources and the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Conducting Faculty Reviews
Faculty Reviews: A Chairs Guide to the New Section 6 of the Augsburg Faculty Handbook
Facilitated by Su Doree and Dave Matz
Wednesday, October 31, 3:40-5:10 p.m., Marshall Room
If you'd like to attend, RSVP to ctl@augsburg.edu.
CTL Night at the Theater
During both fall and spring semesters, CTL reserves tickets to an Augsburg theater production and offers them to faculty, staff, and their significant others. Theater offers a unique way of learning or knowing – from stories that touch our hearts and mind. Experiencing it together adds a social dimension that allows us to discover what the stories mean to others and what new possibilities they see. Through theater we can be healed and transformed, as well as entertained. All productions are in the Tjornhom-Nelson Theater.
Reservations are taken on a first-come, first-served basis. If you would like to attend either or both of these productions, RSVP to ctl@augsburg.edu This year, we have reserved tickets for:
Debt
Developed by Sarah Myers
Site Specific Performances: October 25-November 2
Town Hall Meetings: November 1
Tjornhom-Nelson Theater, Foss Center
What does debt mean to you?
Debt is an experiment in site-specific performance and public art exploring the topic of student debt in its many forms. A week of short performances throughout the Augsburg College campus lead up to four student-facilitated town hall meetings focused on different facets of debt in an academic setting.
As a Town Hall Nation project, Debt is part of a national engagement initiative inviting arts organizations, colleges, and other community groups to create events that demonstrate, present, or embody an ideal town hall meeting.
Cabaret
By Joe Masteroff
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Directed by Darcey Engen
Music Direction by Sonja Thompson
April 12, at 7 p.m.
Tjornhom-Nelson Theater, Foss Center
Set in the fictional Kit Kat Klub in 1930s Berlin, the musical Cabaret depicts the immense political upheaval taking place in Germany during the rise of Nazi power. Based on a book by Christopher Isherwood, with music by Kander and Ebb, the story portrays several couples that meet and fall in love, only to see their relationships unravel as the Nazis begin to infiltrate all elements of their lives.
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General Announcements
Participate in Augsburg LIVE
Augsburg LIVE
Thursday, October 18, 2012
12 p.m. (CT)
On Thursday, October 18, at 12 p.m. (CT), you will have the opportunity to hear first-hand from Augsburg College President Paul C. Pribbenow during a half-hour live webinar conversation about the mission and vision of Augsburg College. Log in at http://www.augsburg.edu/ on Thursday, October 18 to join in the dialog.
Register for this unique opportunity at www.augsburg.edu/alumnievents. Submit questions to the President in advance by emailing alumni@augsburg.edu.
Dining Services
Nabo will be closed this Saturday. Please stop by Einstein's, which will be open from 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Nabo will resume regular business hours on Monday.
Nabo is offering a new meal replacement special, one meal plan meal per week can be used to purchase the special of the day at Nabo from 1:30 p.m. to close.
Einstein's now has pumpkin. Stop by for a pumpkin bagel or a pumpkin scone. We also have the pumpkin spice drinks, try them iced or hot.
The Commons:
Hours:
Breakfast: 7:30-9:45 a.m.
Continental Breakfast: 9:45-11 a.m.
Lunch: 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Pizza, Sandwich, Salad Bar: 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Dinner: 4:30-7 p.m.
Please return all coffee mugs, spoons, knives and forks back to the Commons in the Christensen Center. Thank you for your help in this matter to locate these misplaced items.
Flex Points can be purchased online at http://augsburg.aviands.com/flex-points/. You can pay with your student account or credit card.
Event Announcements
AFA Open Advising Sessions for Business Students
The Business Administration Department faculty and staff will host Open Advising Sessions for business majors and minors on the following days:
Friday, Oct. 19
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 20
9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Both sessions will be held in OREN 100. Please join us if you have any questions relating to your course schedule in winter trimester!
Winter registration opens November 9!
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Exploring Mind/Meditation: Monday 7 p.m. OGC 100
Wolfgang Poier
"Exploring Mind"
Monday, October 15, 7 p.m.
Oren Gateway Center Room 100
The Diamond Way Buddhist Group on campus is excited to host Wolfang Poier from Germany on campus. The program at Augsburg will be about a hour long with an introduction to Buddhism and meditation, a time for questions, and an opportunity to try a guided meditation. Free and open to all.
He'll also speak at the Diamond Way Center in Uptown on Tuesday at 7 p.m. More information at http://www.facebook.com/augsburgdiamondway
You can also join us every Monday 10:20-10:55 in Si-Melby 206 for a short program: 10 minute introductory talk followed by a 15 minute guided meditation.
TODAY - Open Hearing on Credit Hour
The federal government has issued a mandate that all colleges and universities must be in compliance with guidelines regarding course credit hours. The Higher Learning Commission has established protocols to ensure compliance and a group of Augsburg staff and faculty members (the Task Force on Academic Program Structure) has been meeting this past summer to work on means by which this compliance can be accomplished.
It is important that all faculty and staff members have opportunities to learn about the proposed changes and to discuss the implications of these changes. If you were not able to attend the previous hearings, Faculty Senate and the Task Force invite you to attend one (or both) of these sessions:
TODAY, Thursday, Oct. 11; 9-10 a.m. in Lindell 301
Monday, Oct. 15; 12-1 p.m. in Sverdrup 102
Study Abroad Info Session/Brown Bag Lunch
Are you interested in learning about study abroad opportunities available to Augsburg students? Do you want to hear about real experiences from people who have been on a trip? Would you like to share an experience you've had on an Augsburg Abroad or CGE trip? Then bring your lunch and come to the Women's Resource Center this Thursday, October 11, from 12-1 p.m.
AA and CGE faculty and staff will be on hand to share expertise and answer questions.
Focused Conversation: Noon TODAY
Today's Focused Conversation about enrollment plan development will be held today at noon in the Marshall Room. The session will be led by Julie Edstrom, vice president of enrollment management.
Next week, the third Focused Conversation in this series will take place on Tuesday, October 16, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Marshall Room. That session will be led by Ann Garvey, vice president of student affairs, who will talk about the student success/Augsburg Promise initiative.
Luther College Professor to Give Poetry Reading
Carol Gilbertson, a professor of English at Luther College, will read from her recently published book of poems, FROM A DISTANCE, DANCING, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 11 in the bookstore. Gilbertson is the founding Director of the Lutheran Festival of Writing and a widely published author.
Depression and Anxiety Screening TODAY
Counselors from the Center for Counseling & Health Promotion will be available in the Christensen Center lobby from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. today for a short depression and anxiety screening. The screening is brief and you will be able to meet immediately one on one with a counselor to go over the results. There will also be additional resource information available about depression and anxiety if you want to pick some thing up.
Please stop by the table in Christensen Center today! Any questions, please feel free to call the CCHP office at 612-330-1707.
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