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Wellness Across the Curriculum Jan. 7 Schedule

All faculty and staff are invited to the workshop "Integrating Wellness Across the Curriculum."

This workshop will introduce data on Augsburg students' health and health-related behaviors, share current policies and best practices for supporting students, and - importantly -- focus on ideas for developing course content and pedagogy to teach the many dimensions of well-being. Your colleagues will share examples of how they incorporate wellness into Music, Math, Social Work, Physical Education, History and other courses.

Featuring Katherine Lust, Director of Research, Boynton Health Service, U of MN

Kennedy 303/305

9:30-9:45 Welcome and Refreshments
9:45-10:45 Presentation on College Health Data by Katie Lust, Director of Research at Boynton Health, U of MN (extensive survey data on our students)
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Discussion
11:30-12:15 CLASS / CWC -- Policies and Best Practices
12:15-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Faculty Panel on Curriculum and Pedagogy
2:00-3:00 Questions and Discussion
3:00 Adjourn

Sponsored by an AACU "Bringing Theory to Practice" Well-Being Grant, this seminar is designed to advance our work on Student Learning Outcome #4: As Thoughtful Stewards … students are learning to identify the broad foundations for sustainable living and apply them in demonstrable ways (Health and Wellness / Sustainability).

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New Systems for Disability-Related Accommodations

Dear Professors,

Beginning this spring semester, you will experience some changes to the ways you are notified about disability-related accommodations and the method by which you complete requests for testing in the Groves Lab. These changes will result in you knowing about student accommodation requests earlier in the term and will decrease the number of on-line forms you need to complete to implement testing accommodations. The changes are as follows:

Receiving Accommodation Letters
· Disability Specialists will email you the letters notifying you of a student's approved accommodations and the email will be copied to the student. Though you will now be receiving these letters directly from CLASS, we still strongly encourage students to meet with their professors to discuss their needs in your courses.

Testing Accommodations
· If exam accommodations have been approved for a student, the notification letter you receive will have a link to a form or "testing contract" you will complete to let us know how the test will be received, what materials are allowed during testing, and how tests should be returned to you when finished. You will only need to complete one testing contract per course, even if there are multiple students with disabilities and multiple exams in the course.

· Each time a student requests an exam in the Groves Lab, you will receive an email with a link for uploading the exam. If you prefer, you may still drop off exams or email them to groveslab@augsburg.edu. We will no longer be picking up exams from departments.

· It will be important for you to complete the testing contract as soon as possible after you receive the accommodation notification email.


Please do not hesitate to contact the CLASS Office if you have any questions about how this new process will work. We appreciate the ways you partner with us to provide equal opportunities for Augsburg students with disabilities.


Kathy McGillivray, M.A.
Director

Augsburg College
CLASS/Disability Services
Gage Center for Student Success, Lindell Library, 2nd Floor
2211 Riverside Avenue,
Minneapolis, MN 55454
612-330-1053 (main); 612-330-1371 (direct)
612-330-1137 (FAX)

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Rep. Frank Hornstein is a Sabo Center Fellow

The Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship is pleased to announce our partnership with Rep. Frank Hornstein who is serving as a Sabo Fellow this year. His work is referenced in this op-ed piece recently published in the Star Tribune, Forget Nazi comparisons -- find other ways to reject hateful speech: Even in the rare case where it's warranted, there are better ways to counter ugly, fearmongering rhetoric.

http://www.startribune.com/forget-nazi-comparisons-find-other-ways-to-reject-hateful-speech/363963111/

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Prof. Matt Maruggi is a Sabo Center Fellow

The Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship is pleased to announce that Matt Maruggi is a Sabo Fellow this year. He will work with Sabo Center staff on faculty development and curricular integration of community and civic engagement.

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Play of Interest in Cedar Riverside

Playwright Heidi Arneson takes audiences to a 1865 Christmas celebration in Cold Enough to Freeze Your Shadow to the Ground. The piece follows a family of Scandinavian homesteaders living in a sod house on the Minnesota prairie. With ghosts and a real candle-lit Christmas tree featuring homemade ornaments, the show aims to find joy during the darkest time of year.

To write the play, Arneson used various historical resources to research life in sod houses. These were used during the era of the Homestead Act, in which the U.S. government would allow people to farm on 160 acres. If they stuck it out long enough, the land would be theirs.

The impetus for bringing the play back came about because of the recent hubbub around immigration. "Most of us are immigrants," she says. "We come from people who left their land due to hardship and came here."

The play is under an hour, and there will be live music before and after by John Plomondon and Holiday.

IF YOU GO:
Cold Enough to Freeze Your Shadow to the Ground
7 p.m. January 9, & 10
HeidiHouse
1916 S. Eighth St., Minneapolis
To make reservations, call 612.333.6816 or email heidijeanarneson@gmail.com.

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