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General Announcements
- Food Service Specials
- MFA Program Announces New Director, Derek Nikitas
- EDGE Scholarship Deadline Extended
- Food Service Hours
- Augsburg Mentors at AWP April 8-11
- Study Abroad/Away-Apply for Summer and Fall 15
- "On-Hold" Accounts Payable Checks
- Last Week to Register for the Etiquette Dinner
- Julian Kritz and Nick Stewart-Bloch for Prez and VP
Event Announcements
- Focused Conversations: The Academic Program
- Common Table Happenings
- TOMORROW-Tierralismo on Campus
- It's Philanthropy Week
- Daily Chapel: Holy Week Series Begins
- Auggies Connect with Employers - April 9
- Minneapolis Remodeling Expo: Free Tickets in HR
- AWP Women's Caucus Reading on April 8
- Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Degree Audit Software Demo
- Artist Talks with Jeanine Hill - Thursday
Keeping Track of Auggies
Auggie Athletics
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Speaking of Scholarship - Sabbatical Speed Orating
The CTL is hosting a Speaking of Scholarship "speed orating" event featuring the work from 2013-2014 sabbaticals. The presentations will be short and accessible across all disciplines, hence "speed orating." This will allow for attendees to hear about multiple research projects in an informal, roundtable discussion format. Please join us in celebrating your fellow colleagues' work.
Monday, March 30th
3:15-4:15 (3:15 hors d'oeuvres - 3:45 presentations)
Marshall Room
TODAY - Learn About Grad School @ 3pm in OGC 100
Graduate School: Deciding if it's right for you, finding a good fit, and getting yourself in the door.
Monday, March 30th
OGC 100 @ 3pm
Come join us for an information session about graduate school and how best to prepare yourself for the application process. Plus, get the inside scoop from Augsburg Graduate Admissions and The University of Minnesota Graduate Admissions! Students from all majors are invited to attend. Whether you are a freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior, if you are thinking of attending graduate school in the future, this is an event you don't want to miss!
If you cannot attend the information session, please email urgo@augsburg.edu to set up an individual appointment and check out our website for more graduate school application advice: www.augsburg.edu/urgo.
General Announcements
Food Service Specials
Monday 3/30/15
The Nabo Special of the Day is a Roast Beef and Provolone Melt on Wheat Bread.
Today there is Grilled Cheese and Tomato Basil Soup in The Commons!
On Friday April 3rd Nabo will be closed, Einstein's will be open from 7:30am-1:30pm, and The Commons will be open from 11:00pm-1:00pm and 5:00pm-7:00pm. Saturday all locations will be open with normal Saturday hours.
MFA Program Announces New Director, Derek Nikitas
Derek Nikitas, the Edgar Award-nominated author of two novels, Pyres and The Long Division, both from St. Martin's Press, and Extra Lives, a Young Adult novel forthcoming from Polis Books, will join the Augsburg College MFA Program as the MFA's new program director, beginning in August 2015.
Nikitas will be in town for the AWP Conference April 9-11 and will visit the program during the Summer Residency.
He has served as the director of the low-residency MFA Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University, and has previously taught creative writing at the State University of New York at Brockport, and the University of Rhode Island.
His short fiction has appeared in The Ontario Review, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Chelsea, Washington Square, New South and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and a PhD in English from Georgia State University.
Nikitas will succeed the Augsburg MFA's first director, Cass Dalglish, who will return to the classroom in the fall, continuing to serve as a mentor in the MFA and and a professor in the undergraduate creative writing program.
EDGE Scholarship Deadline Extended
The Travelers EDGE Program at Augsburg has provided professional development opportunities and scholarships to several Augsburg students over the course of the last 4 years. We are currently accepting applications from first year students.
Five students will be named Travelers EDGE scholars for the 2015-2016 academic year. Each Scholar will receive a $2,500 scholarship and have the opportunity to learn more about themselves and the Insurance and Financial Services industry by participating in several professional development workshops.
Recipients must meet the following criteria:
1. Graduate of a Twin Cities metro area public high school (priority will be given to graduates of St. Paul Public Schools, Minneapolis Public Schools, and college access program participants)
2. Must be eligible to work in the U.S.
3. Full-time undergraduate with first-year status, enrolled in the Day Program at Augsburg
4. Minimum GPA of 3.0
5. Demonstrate financial need based on the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid.)
6. Applicants may have any major, but should demonstrate interest in exploring careers in the Insurance and Financial Services Industry (including business, economics, mathematics, computer science, and related fields).
7. Willing and available to participate in Augsburg Travelers EDGE Program events and activities, such self-assessments, career preparation workshops, job shadows, networking opportunities, and outreach to K-12 partner schools in St. Paul.
For more information or a copy of the application, please contact Janet Morales at moralesj@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1792. The application deadline has been extended to Monday, April 6th.
Food Service Hours
Monday 3/30/15
Nabo is open from 7:30am-8:00pm.
Einstein's is open from 7:30am-9:00pm with the Late Night Menu starting at 7:00pm.
The Commons is open from 7:30am-7:00pm. Market Place is serving Baked Jojo Potatoes, Parsley Cauliflower, Pulled BBQ Chicken Sandwiches, and Buns. Vege is serving Roasted Potatoes with Rosemary, Vegan BBQ Chicken, Carrots with Lime Sauce, and Peas & Carrots with Herbs.
On Friday April 3rd Nabo will be closed, Einstein's will be open from 7:30am-1:30pm, and The Commons will be open from 11:00pm-1:00pm and 5:00pm-7:00pm. Saturday April 4th all locations will be open with normal Saturday hours.
Augsburg Mentors at AWP April 8-11
The annual AWP conference will be held at the Minneapolis Convention Center from April 8-11, with Augsburg MFA Mentors participating in several events:
* Thursday, April 9, 10:30-11:45a, Room 101 J, Level 1 - Robert Bly and the Minnesota Writers' Publishing House.
Panelists, including Cary Waterman, will discuss their experiences with the House and Bly's influence and will read from their chapbooks.
* Friday, April 10, noon-1:15p, Room L100 B&C, Lower Level - Creative Writing as Job Training.
Can we move beyond corporate rhetoric and demonstrate that creative writing is a marketable 21st-century skill? (Panelists include Cary Waterman.)
* Friday, April 10, 1:30-2:45p, Room 208 C&D, Level 2 - A Tribute to Gerald Vizenor.
Anishinaabe writers will read selections from Gerald Vizenor's vast body of work and reflect on how this elder statesman of Anishinaabe literature influenced and supported their own work. (Panelists include Heid Erdrich.)
* Saturday, April 11, 9-10:15a, Room 208 A&B, Level 2 - Re: Searching, Or: Don't Write What You Know.
Panelists, including Stephan Eirik Clark, will explore ways that research has enhanced their short stories and novels, including writing that is based on historical events, connected to their own life experiences, or entirely remade in their imagination.
* Saturday, April 11, 9-10:15a, Room 200 H&I, Level 2 - Morphing from 2D to 3D: Teaching Multimodal Creative Writing.
Panelists, including Sarah Myers, share extra-¬textual CW assignments: Students photograph their fiction, push plays off¬stage, bake literary analyses into cakes, cross CNF with social media, take to the streets with guerrilla poems. Students embody texts and texts expand off¬page.
* Saturday, April 11, 1:30-2:45p, Room 101 F&G, Level 1 - Video Poems and Cross¬Genre Collaboration: A Conversation and Screening with Louise Erdrich, Heid E. Erdrich, and Trevino Brings Plenty.
The panelists see collaboration across genre as a hallmark of indigenous aesthetic and an emerging movement in American literature. All three poets will discuss collaborations such as book trailers and video poems, exploring the ways that these forms can inspire, respond to, and transcend. This panel will feature the premiere of their individual video poems and tell the story of collaboration that brought their poems to the screen.
* Saturday, April 11, 3-4:15p, Room 200 H&I, Level 2 - Byte by Byte: Teaching Creative Writing Online.
Five writers--who teach online in a public university, a community college AFA, an arts nonprofit, and in private BFA and MFA low-residency programs--offer a candid and guided tour of the online creative writing classroom. (Panelists include Cass Dalglish.)
Study Abroad/Away-Apply for Summer and Fall 15
There is still time to study abroad or away in the USA this summer or fall. Apply by April 1 for CGEE and HECUA programs.
Satisfy Graduation Requirements
*Augsburg Experience, Language, Religion, HPE, Humanities, Arts, Science w/lab, Social Science, *Majors and Minors...
Scholarships available + all financial aid applies
*$1000 Automatic for CGEE Semester Programs,
*$2100 for Dreamers and un/DACAmented students--HECUA USA
*Need-based for all programs
*Diversity scholarships
Gain valuable career-building skills
*Internships
*Intercultural Competency
*Differentiate yourself from other grads to get your desired job
"On-Hold" Accounts Payable Checks
Authorization Invoices/Check Requests processed with a "On-Hold" request originally to be picked up on Friday, April 3rd will be available on Thursday, April 2nd anytime after 1:00 pm due to the Good Friday holiday.
If you should have any questions, please feel free to contact me at X1031
or daughera@augsburg.edu ~ Thank You!
Last Week to Register for the Etiquette Dinner
Learn basic etiquette skills to help you make a great first impression and land a job or internship. Join our guest speaker Deenna Latus, Certified Etiquette Consultant, alumni, and students. The evening will be interactive and fun!
Date: Sunday, April 12, 2015
Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Location: Kennedy Center, Room 303/305
Register: www.augsburg.edu/strommen
Sponsored by: Strommen Center for Meaningful Work, Augsburg Business Organization, Athletic Department
Questions: Call 612-330-1148 or email careers@augsburg.edu
Julian Kritz and Nick Stewart-Bloch for Prez and VP
Augsburg Day Student Government Elections are Monday, April 6th through Thursday, April 9th. You will receive an email with a link to the ballot. Support Julian Kritz for President and Nick Stewart-Bloch for Vice President. Experienced Leaders. Passionate and Hardworking. Committed to Service of Fellow Students.
Event Announcements
Focused Conversations: The Academic Program
Today and tomorrow, Provost and Chief Academic Officer Karen Kaivola and History Professor and Director of General Education Jacqui deVries will lead Focused Conversation discussions about the academic program.
These sessions will offer an opportunity to touch upon multiple topics relative to the academic program, including:
* Our current curriculum and institutional distinction;
* Strategies for living even more fully into our promise to educate students for lives of purpose;
* Implications of our new learning outcomes;
* National conversations on preparing students for a world of "unscripted problems;"
* Strategies for revisiting general education requirements.
Click the link(s) below to add the session(s) to your calendar:
TODAY: Monday, March 30, 3:40 p.m. - Lindell 301 - http://bit.ly/1LxLGWb
TOMORROW: Tuesday, March 31, 3:40 p.m. - Marshall - http://bit.ly/1vsh58s
To access the All Hands calendar for the remainder of the academic year, go to All Hands page: http://bit.ly/187jQlx . (You must be logged in to access that page.)
Common Table Happenings
HAPPENING THIS WEEK:
Cedar Riverside Open Mic, hosted by Save The Kids!
THIS THURSDAY April 2nd, 7-10pm.
Save The Kids, a national org with an Augsburg chapter that does education and organizing addressing the school-prison pipeline, will collaborate with Common Table organizers and Teen Voice (a youth poetry program at Brian Coyle) to host bi-weekly Open Mics. Each will feature several local artists, leaving the rest of the time open for others in the room to share spoken word, music, poems, and to plug opportunities for young people to get involved in the community work of those present!
WEEKLY GATHERINGS - YOU'RE INVITED!
Interfaith @ The Common Table
TUESDAYS, 6:30-8:30pm
For weekly updates, find "interfaith @ The Common Table" on Facebook.
Free Community Supper, hosted by Trinity Lutheran Congregation.
WEDNESDAYS, 6pm.
Open Speaker A.A. Meeting
SATURDAYS, 7:30-9pm.
SAVE THE DATE:
Augsburg Interfaith Scholars' Open Mic
Special guest: Midnimo artist Aar Maanta. Don't miss this!
TUESDAY, April 7th 6:30-8:30pm
Newsroom Cafe
WEDNESDAY, April 8th 12:30-1:30
(See blog post for details.
http://www.augsburg.edu/sabo/2015/03/16/first-cedar-riverside-newsroom-cafe-at-the-common-table/ )
Monthly Interfaith Meal: Celebrating the Jewish Passover!
TUESDAY, April 14th 6:30-8:30pm
Local Leaders, Strengthening Communities..
"Nothing About Us, Without Us, Is For Us"
THURSDAY, April 16th 6-8pm.
Join us at the Common Table for a panel discussion with local community organizers Irna Landrum, Kristy Clemons and Jake Virden. Our panelists will talk about their justice work and discuss why and how we can move from one-directional service work to building power in communities.
The Common Table (2001 Riverside Ave. S, across from Afro Deli, below Trinity's offices)
TOMORROW-Tierralismo on Campus
Tierralismo-Cuban film on agroecology and panel discussion with:
Atina Diffley-Organic farmer and owner of Gardens of Eagan
Beth Dooley-well known food writer who took a trip to Cuba this January
Rob Czernik-food activist and member of Food Not Bombs
When: Tuesday, March 31st
Where: Science #123
Time: 7:00pm
Sponsored by: Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Center for Global Education, Campus Kitchen and Professor Jenny Hanson, Film Studies at Augsburg.
The Tierralismo Good Earth Film screenings of the recently released documentary, Tierralismo: Stories from a Cooperative Farm. Part of the AMI Cuba catalogue, Tierralismo is about the history and practices of one of Cuba's most successful urban farms, the Organoponico Vivero Alamar (Alamar Organic Cooperative). Tierralismo, introduces viewers to everyone from agronomists and senior management to workers who plant, plow, and propagate. What began as a necessity - farming without pesticides and chemical fertilizers - has become a source of pride to coop members.
Tierralismo also covers non-farming aspects of the operation, such as human resources and accounting practices. In a land where financial resources are scarce and governmentally controlled, transparency and trust are paramount. Many of the coop's members have come from other fields - including a former pathologist, a fisherman, and an oil-industry worker. More than half are seniors - including an 82-year-old who says when it comes to hoeing, he can outwork anyone in their twenties. This is a film not only about the food and the farm but the characters who make it happen.
It's Philanthropy Week
It's Philanthropy week at Augsburg! Now is a great time for you to say thank you to our generous donors!
Stop by the Philanthropy Week table in the Christensen Center!
Monday, March 30 10:30am-12:30pm
Tuesday, March 31 11:00am-1:00pm
Wednesday, April 1 10:30am-12:30pm
What is philanthropy? Pronounce it fill-ann-thruh-pee. It is love of humanity. It's from the Greek phílos, "a friend" and ánthropos, "of mankind, people."
Come learn all about it from some other students and a few of our Institutional Advancement staff members here at Augsburg!
Daily Chapel: Holy Week Series Begins
Join us for worship in the chapel today at 10:40am as we begin our Holy Week Series: "Posture of Prayer." Dr. Mary Lowe preaching, Associate Professor, Religion Department.
Series Continues this Week:
Tuesday, 3/31, 11:30am: Dr. Russell Kleckley preaching
Wednesday, 4/1, 10:40am: Service of Holy Communion, Pastor Sonja Hagander preaching
Thursday, 4/2, 11:30am: Maundy Thursday, President Paul Pribbenow preaching
Friday, 4/3: Good Friday – Augsburg Closed/No Chapel Service
Wednesday Night Communion, 4/1, 9:30pm: Babette Chatman preaching, student testimonial by Jon Bates '15
We gather in Hoversten Chapel, Foss Center - Absolutely everyone is welcome!
Auggies Connect with Employers - April 9
Auggies Connect with Employers
Thursday, April 9th (3:00-5:00 p.m.)
(Come and stay for a few minutes or the entire time)
Strommen Center, Suite 100, Christensen Center
All are welcome! Dress attire - casual
Wonder what types of careers there are in non-profit organizations? There are many openings available from technology, marketing, business, accounting, psychology, social work, etc. Stop by for an informal meet and greet with representatives from United Way, Lutheran Social Services, Finnegan's, Anoka County and Hennepin County. Ask questions on your job or internship search and/or have your resume critiqued.
Minneapolis Remodeling Expo: Free Tickets in HR
The 2015 Minneapolis Remodeling Expo is coming to the Minneapolis Convention Center from April 10-12th. See what's new for building, remodeling, decorating, and landscaping your home.
Don't miss this opportunity--a limited number of free tickets are available in HR!
AWP Women's Caucus Reading on April 8
Join us for the AWP Women's Caucus Reading on April 8. Award winning poets Joy Harjo and Natalie Diaz will read, with an introduction by MFA Mentor Heid Erdrich. Joy Harjo is the author of seven books of poetry and the memoir, Crazy Brave. She received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Natalie Diaz is the author of When My Brother Was An Aztec. She received the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Nerude Prize for Poetry.
Wednesday, April 8, 7:30p in Sateren Auditorium.
The reading is free and open to the public.
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
Thursday, April 2
4-5 pm
Marshall Room, Christensen Center
Alex Bohen will present on Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. This is a great opportunity to learn more about osteopathic medicine, to ask questions about how osteopathic medicine differs from allopathic, and inquire about their placement rates and locations for residency.
Degree Audit Software Demo
During the recent Retention Summit, a key institutional need was identified--degree audit software that would allow students and advisers to track and plan, with greater efficiency and accuracy, progress towards a degree. A team has been considering options and has invited CollegeSource to give a demo of their product suite.
On April 1, at 4 pm in East Commons, there will be a demo of this tool. Everyone who is interested is encouraged to attend the demo. If you are unable to attend but would like to learn more, additional info and video demonstrations are posted at http://go.augsburg.edu/degreeaudit. If you have feedback, there is a feedback form provided on the webpage. You may also send feedback directly to Katie Bishop at bishopc@augsburg.edu.
Artist Talks with Jeanine Hill - Thursday
Join us for an artist talk with Jeanine Hill in the Gage Family Art Gallery this Thursday, April 2. There are three different 30-minute sessions throughout the day (see schedule below). Hill will talk about her drawing and ceramic installation that depicts a state of constant becoming.
Artist Talk Sessions:
8:50 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
1:00 p.m.
Meet in the Gage Family Art Gallery.
Keeping Track of Auggies
Congrats on 7th Annual Traditional Powwow
Thanks to Jennifer Simon, Director, American Indian Student Services, for her leadership on the 7th Annual Traditional Powwow, held Sat., March 28. Thanks to Augsburg's American Indian Student Association (AISA) students, custodial staff, Department of Public Safety staff, and Augsburg alumni who helped support this wonderful event.
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Minnesota Twins Tickets for Sale
Two (2) tickets for each of the following games are available.
Saturday, May 2 1:10PM Chicago WS 2 tickets
Thursday, Aug 13 12:10PM Texas 2 tickets
Thursday, Sept 24 7:10PM Cleveland 2 tickets
Price is my Season Ticket cost of $21.00/ticket. Seats are in Section 319, Row 6.
Doug Scott
Director of Leadership Gifts
612-330-1575 (O)
612-743-7045 (C)
scottd@augsburg.edu