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Education for Jobs ... or Citizenship? Jan. 9

Faculty and staff are invited to an AACU-funded workshop on Thursday, January 9, 2014:

"From Theory to Practice: Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum"

9:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Marshall Room

Please RSVP to Jacqui deVries devries@augsburg.edu

Funded by an AACU "Bringing Theory to Practice Grant," this seminar will introduce participants to different models of civic engagement and explore how we might "bring theory to practice" in our curriculum. During the seminar we will consider new scholarship on teaching civic engagement, reflect on how we currently develop it in our students, refine our learning goals for "Engaging Minneapolis" in the first-year curriculum, and develop new ideas. Faculty and staff who work with first-year students are particularly encouraged to attend.

9:30 Who are we and why are we here?
9:45 What is "Education for Citizenship"? Where are we as an institution?
11:00 How can we educate for citizenship?
12:00 Lunch
1:00 How can we teach civic engagement in the first year?
2:15 What does success look like?

Short presentations will be made by Dennis Donovan, Michael Lansing, Susan O'Connor, and Donna Patterson

Readings (copies available from Jacqui deVries):

A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy's Future (Washington, D.C.: AACU, 2012)

John Dewey, "Creative Democracy: The Task Before Us," in John Dewey The Later Works, 1925-1953, vol. 14 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998)

Harry Boyte, "Reinventing Citizenship as Public Work," in Democracy's Education: A Symposium on Power, Public Work, and the Meaning of Citizenship, ed. Harry C. Boyte (Vanderbilt University Press, forthcoming 2014.)

The planning team includes Katie Bishop, Harry Boyte, Jacqui deVries, Dennis Donovan, Joe Erickson, Michael Lansing, Mary Laurel True, Jim Trelstad-Porter, Joe Underhill, and Shana Watters.

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Mandatory GHS (Chemicals Handling) Training

The Department of Public Safety is hosting four mandatory training sessions on Wednesday, January 8, 2014, for anyone who is employed by Augsburg and may work with or around chemicals.

The new OSHA rulings substantially modified its Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) to conform to the United Nations' Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). The modifications to the HCS that will be covered during this training include:

- Revised criteria for classification of chemical hazards;
- Revised labeling provisions that include requirements for use of standardized signal words, pictograms, hazard statements, and precautionary statements;
- A specified format for safety data sheets;
- Related revisions to definitions of terms used in the standard; and
- Requirements for employee training on labels and safety data sheets

Training times will be at 8 a.m., 10 a.m., 2 p.m., and 4 p.m. for two hour durations.

Location: Science 123

To sign up
- go to Human Resources' Moodle Page https://moodle.augsburg.edu/moodlecommunity/mod/scheduler/view.php?id=23531 and
- Training
- "GHS Training"

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Add Your Events to the Inside Augsburg Calendar

I want to encourage every department to get their Spring 2014 events onto the Inside Augsburg calendar.

You can submit them by going to http://inside.augsburg.edu/ and clicking "Submit Calendar Item" under the "Augnet Services" menu.

If you have several events to submit at once, or one event that will recur several times over the course of the semester, please email or call Joe Mann - mannj@augsburg.edu or x1157 - to talk about alternate ways to submit those.

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Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Grant

We are honored that the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community recently contributed an additional $250,000 to endow scholarships for Native American students at Augsburg. This grant continues their generous legacy at Augsburg, and will be added to the existing Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community endowment fund, which they established in the mid-1990s. Bonnie Wallace, a member of the Augsburg College Board of Regents and the first director of the American Indian Student Support Program at Augsburg, was instrumental in reconnecting the college with the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community. Please thank Bonnie for her extraordinary efforts on behalf of Augsburg!

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Mark Your Calendar

Augsburg College and TIAA-CREF announce Individual Counseling sessions.

INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING SESSIONS AT NO ADDITIONAL COST TO YOU
You can discuss your personal financial situation with an experienced TIAA-CREF Financial Consultant on a confidential basis. They are available to discuss how to help you achieve your financial goals by investing in financial solutions such as mutual funds, brokerage, life insurance and annuities.

Tuesday, January 21 AND Wednesday, January 22
8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Cedar Room, Christensen Center

SIGN UP TODAY:
Space is limited, so please RSVP as soon as you can.
Call 866 843-5640, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. (ET).

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Free File Cabinet

I got a sturdy, brown, four-drawer file cabinet from the Augsburg free office furniture sale a couple years ago. I am settled in my new home now and find I do not need it anymore. I would like to pass it along for free (again) to someone who will come and pick it up from my south Minneapolis home.

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