Subject: Quantitative Reasoning Skills Workshop, March 8
Submitter: Theresa L Martin, Administrative Assistant, Center for Teaching and Learning

Message:
From Deb Redmond…..

On behalf of the Quantitative Reasoning Leadership Team, I would like to invite you and/or members of your department to attend "Quantitative Reasoning: The Workshop" on Thursday, March 8 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. in the East Commons. Stu Anderson will present a profile of his new course "Physics for the Fine Arts" which was designed with the new QR criteria in mind. The team will be there to answer questions and help departments determine how they may best implement the new skills plan for quantitative reasoning. Please RSVP to Terry Martin (martin@augsburg.edu). Hope to see you there!

Subject: Learn about Day at the Capitol 2007 this Friday!
Submitter: Natalie Wright, Administrative Assistant, Government and Community Relations, Institutional Advancement

Message: Want to help keep college affordable and accessible for everyone?

Join us for FREE PIZZA and an information session about Day at the Capitol 2007, this Friday from noon-1 p.m. in the East Commons.

Day at the Capitol, taking place on April 12, is where students, faculty and staff travel to the State Capitol to advocate increased funding to the Minnesota State Grant Program, which provides aid to students from low to middle income families.

FACT: The average state grant award is $1,748 and students can receive a state grant for each semester, up to 6 semesters!

Subject: Friday Seminar, March 9
Submitter: Theresa L Martin, Administrative Assistant, Center for Teaching and Learning

Message:
Road Dogs and Loners

Tim Pippert, the poet laureate of Inver Grove Heights, will be discussing the lives and survival strategies of homeless men.

The presentation will focus on road dogs and loners, two subgroups of homeless men.
Road dogs are street partnerships formed between homeless men for the purpose of companionship and protection. Their survival strategies and availability of family support will be compared to self-defined loners, those who find social isolation a necessary strategy for living on the street.

Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m. in Lindell 301. The presentation begins at 4.

Subject: Summer Research Grants for Faculty
Submitter: Theresa L Martin, Administrative Assistant, Center for Teaching and Learning

Message: Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Summer Research Guidelines 2007

DESCRIPTION:

This grant provides support of faculty scholarly activity during the summer months. Scholarship is broadly defined to include disciplinary scholarship, the scholarship of application, interdisciplinary scholarship, and the scholarship of teaching. Examples of previous successful proposals are on file in the Center for Teaching and Learning.

"Scholarship of Teaching" typically goes beyond course development and/or revision and has as its audience other faculty and professionals in the field.

SELECTION CRITERIA:

Proposals should show evidence of thorough preparation and meet the following criteria:
• Clear statement of realistic goals and objectives
• Appropriate and detailed project method/plan for achieving the goals and objectives
• Explanation of advance preparation and planning
• Clear description of the project's assessment
• Detailed timeline and budget

FUNDING: Up to $2000 is awarded per grant and 2-3 awards are typically made per year.
Source: Grangaard Faculty Development Fund.
Funding decisions are made by the Faculty Development Committee. All funds must be requested by the end of the fiscal year in which the grant is awarded.

ELIGIBILITY: These grants are for Faculty. Priority is given to full time tenure track faculty. Priority is also given to faculty whohave not received this grant in the previous three year period.

APPLICATION: Please use the Research Application on-line form that is available at the CTL website www.augsburg.edu/ctl and attach a curriculum vita.

Application Date: March 15 for the summer 2007.

Requirements of the grant include completion of the following:
• Professional Development evaluation form and assessment as described in the project application
• Sharing the results with the Augsburg Community; for example, presentation of a community discussion, Faculty Scholarship Roundtables, or another venue approved by the FacDev Committee.

Subject: Norwegian and U.S. Ambassadors to visit Augsburg!
Submitter: Amanda Peterson, Executive Assistant, Office of the President

Message: This Wednesday, March 7, Knut Vollebaek, Norwegian Ambassador to the United States, and U.S. Ambassador to Norway, Benson Whitney, will visit Augsburg. They are traveling as part of a delegation that includes former Augsburg President Bill Frame, Rolf Willy Hansen (General Consulate, Minneapolis), Grethe Bratlie (Deputy Director General of the Norwegian Ministry of Education), and Christian Hansson (representative of the Norwegian Embassy). As part of their visit to Augsburg, the delegation will participate in a student panel, the topic of which will focus on international education. The Augsburg Community is invited and encouraged to attend the student panel, which will take place from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. in the Minneapolis Room. If you have questions about the event, please contact Amanda Peterson in the Office of the President (x 1212 or petersam@augsburg.edu).

Subject: Tara Sweeney artist presentation Friday
Submitter: Kerry Morgan, Coordinator of Galleries and Exhibits, Art

Message: Join us Friday, March 9 at 4 p.m. when studio art professor Tara Sweeney will be discussing her exhibition "LISTEN: A Pilgrimage in Watercolor and Ink." The presentation, which is open all, will take place in the Marshall Room. Refreshments will be provided.

Subject: Love Your Body Week!
Submitter: Dianne Detloff, Administrative Assistant, Counseling and Health Promotion

Message: Counseling & Health Promotion is sponsoring "Love Your Body Week" at Augsburg. We kickoff today with our "Mirrorless Monday" where the Augsburg Community will be encouraged to focus on how we are all "beautiful on the inside." Tuesday, ASAC is hosting Deanna Latson for a program focused on eating for health. "Eat Right, Feel Good, Work Great" will be presented at 6:00 p.m. in the East Commons.

Wednesday "Love Your Body" tabling in Christensen from11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Come and send a "Beautiful on the Inside" card to a friend and enter you and your friend in a drawing to win one of two professional massages. Thursday the video "Slim Hopes" on media and body image will be shown in the Urness-Mort lobby at 7 p.m.

Friday we finish up with our Augsburg nutritionist consultant, Kay Guidarelli who will staff an "Ask the Nutritionist" table in Christensen Center from 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. If you have questions about any of the week's events, call Dianne in the CCHP office at x1707.

Subject: Housing Lottery 2007-2008
Submitter: Cynthia Rowe, Housing Specialist, Residence Life

Message: Lottery night is March 13, 2007 in the East Commons, Christensen Center.

Lottery is the selection process for on-campus housing in Anderson Hall, Mortensen Hall, and select New Hall Apartments. All day students currently enrolled at Augsburg and taking at least one course are eligible for on-campus housing for 2007-2008.

For more information, please contact Cyndy Rowe at rowe@augsburg.edu, or extension 1488.

Subject: Associates Spring Seminar
Submitter: Kathryn Croyle, Administrative Assistant to the VP, Institutional Advancement

Message: The Augsburg Associates are delighted to have Bill Green as the speaker for the Spring Seminar on March 17 at 9 a.m. in Foss Atrium. Dr. Green is an Augsburg History professor who has spent the past year as the Interim Superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools, and was recently named Superintendent. President Pribbenow will also be at the Seminar to provide the invocation and introduction of Dr. Green. Please join us for a continental breakfast and what will surely be a most interesting presentation. To access the registration form, please go to the Alumni Events portion of the Alumni and Friends link on the Augsburg website; the downloadable form is at the bottom of the page. You may print it, fill it out, and send it in with your registration fee to Kathryn Croyle at CB 142. Please call Kathryn at x1171 if you have any questions.

Subject: Clearance Sale at the bookstore!
Submitter: bookstor@augsburg.edu

Message: All clothing clearance is an extra 50% off Monday, March 5 & Tuesday, March 6.

Subject: Dollar/Sense Wrap Up
Submitter: Eric Addington, Financial Aid Counselor, Enrollment Center

Message: Thanks to all of you who participated in the Dollar/Sense events the past two weeks! If you still have your green score card, drop it off in the Enrollment Center this week to be entered in the scholarship drawing. The drawing will be held at the end of the week.

Subject: Fine Arts Salon: "Internal Journey"
Submitter: Amanda Peterson, Executive Assistant, Office of the President

Message: Fine Arts Salon: “Internal Journey”
Thursday, March 8, 5-7 p.m.

Paul C. Pribbenow and Abigail Crampton Pribbenow invite faculty, staff, and students to the first in a series of salons at Augsburg House. Currently on exhibit is art professor Tara Sweeney's mixed media series, "Forbidden Fruit." She will lead guests in a discussion of the art, selected readings, and music around the theme of "Internal Journey." Senior piano performance major Bri Wright will play selections from Beethoven and Scarlotti. Refreshments will be served. Space is limited to the first 20 people to respond. Please reply to Amanda Peterson by phone (x1212) or via e-mail at petersam@augsburg.edu.

Subject: We need your support!
Submitter: Sarah M Pesola, Student

Message: The Pedalers for Peace (a group of Augsburg students and staff going on a spring break bike trip), will be tabling Monday and Tuesday this week in Christensen. Stop by to find out about our mission and goals, and check out the t-shirts and magnets we made! We will be selling them to raise money for an environmental organization in New Orleans called, "The Green Project." www.thegreenproject.org

Subject: Staff Employee of the Year deadline extended
Submitter: Elizabeth N Bassani, Financial Aid Counselor, Enrollment Center

Message: Due to the weather, Staff Senate has extended the deadline of receiving nomination forms for the Staff Employee of the Year through today. Please stop by the Enrollment Center in Sverdrup Hall to drop off any nomination forms you have to Liz Bassani by 4:30 p.m. today! You can also email her with your letter of recommendation to bassanil@augsburg.edu.
Thank you!

Subject: Picture YOUR college life in the yearbook!
Submitter: Rebecca V Reilly, Student

Message: Do you have high-resolution digital photos of your crazy college life? You can contribute candid photos from this academic year to this year's Augsburgian, in .jpg or .tif files, in RGB format. Upload them to our site:
https://portal.jostens.com/login.asp
Our User ID: 1111266
Password: rootbeer

Remember to identify everyone pictured in the Keywords field, list yourself as the photographer, so you can get photo credit, and tell us what's going on in your picture! Thanks!

Subject: Auggie Athletics Update
Submitter: Donald W Stoner, Sports Information Coordinator, Public Relations and Communication

Message: Auggie Athletics Update (click link for story/stats):

Thursday, March 1:
Men's Hockey -- MIAC Playoff Semifinals -- St. Thomas 3, Augsburg 1
http://www.augsburg.edu/athletics/mhockey/0607statistics/030107stthomas.html

Softball -- Augsburg 10-3, Cornell (Iowa) 2-13 (both games 5 inn.)
http://www.augsburg.edu/athletics/softball/0607statistics/030107cornell.html

Friday-Saturday, March 2-3:
Wrestling -- Augsburg at NCAA Division III National Championships
http://www.augsburg.edu/athletics/wrestling/0607statistics/2007ncaa.html

Track and Field -- Augsburg at MIAC Indoor Championships:
http://www.augsburg.edu/athletics/track/0607statistics/030307miac.html

Saturday, March 3:
Baseball -- Augsburg 8-7, Edgewood (Wis.) 7-0
http://www.augsburg.edu/athletics/baseball/0607statistics/030307edgewood.html

Upcoming Events:
http://www.augsburg.edu/athletics/

Wednesday, March 7:
Baseball vs. Wisconsin-Stout, HHH Metrodome, 6:45 a.m.

Friday, March 9:
Softball vs. Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Edor Nelson Field (indoors), 10 a.m.
Baseball vs. Wisconsin-Whitewater, HHH Metrodome, 11:30 a.m.

Friday, March 16:
M/W Track and Field at Occidental (Calif.) Distance Carnival.

Saturday, March 17:
Softball at Chapman (Calif.) Sun West Tournament, Orange, Calif. -- vs. SUNY-Cortland (N.Y.), 10:45 a.m.; vs. Puget Sound (Wash.), 1 p.m.
M/W Track and Field at Occidental (Calif.) Ben Culley Meet.

Subject: Feature on LeVesseur in Star-Tribune
Submitter: Donald W Stoner, Sports Information Coordinator, Public Relations and Communication

Message: There is a feature on Augsburg wrestler Marcus LeVesseur (Sr., Minneapolis, Minn./Bloomington Kennedy HS) in Friday's (March 2) Minneapolis Star-Tribune newspaper:

http://www.startribune.com/513/story/1031914.html

LeVesseur capped off his collegiate career with his fourth NCAA Division III national title at the national championships, this weekend in Dubuque, Iowa. LeVesseur finished 31-0 this season and 155-0 on his career, the second-longest unbeaten streak in collegiate wrestling history, behind the 159-0 of Iowa State's Cael Sanderson (1998-2002).

Subject: Augsburg wins 10th wrestling national title
Submitter: Donald W Stoner, Sports Information Coordinator, Public Relations and Communication

Message: http://www.augsburg.edu/athletics/wrestling/0607statistics/2007ncaa.html

DUBUQUE, Iowa (3/3/07) -- Claiming three individual national titles and making collegiate wrestling history for one of its wrestlers in the process, the Augsburg College wrestling team won its record-10th NCAA Division III national championship in the last 17 seasons with a dominating performance in the tournament, completed on Saturday evening at the Five Flags Center.

With nine All-Americans, including three titlists and two runners-up, Augsburg finished with 135.5 points, 36 points ahead of second-place Wartburg (Iowa), the defending national champion, with 99.5 points. Wisconsin-La Crosse finished in third with 92.5 points, Luther (Iowa) finished fourth with 86.0 points and the College of New Jersey finished fifth with 46.5 points.

Augsburg head coach Jeff Swenson was named National Coach of the Year by the National Wrestling Coaches Association, the sixth time he has earned the honor in his 25-season career.

"We had a lot of ups, mostly, and a few downs," said Swenson. "It's hard for me, when the year comes to an end because of the great seniors, but the bottom line is I'm proud of them as a group. They really came together in the last month of the season."

Augsburg's Marcus LeVesseur (Sr., Minneapolis, Minn./Bloomington Kennedy HS) became the first Division III wrestler ever to win four national titles, and the second college wrestler ever to finish his career unbeaten and untied. In the 165-pound national championship match, LeVesseur closed his career with a 3-0, shutout victory over Mike Guenther of the College of New Jersey.

LeVesseur, who won Division III national titles at 157 pounds three times (2003, 2004, 2005), finished his senior season at 31-0, and his collegiate career at 155-0, the second-longest winning streak in college wrestling history. Cael Sanderson went 159-0 during his career at Iowa State from 1998-2002, winning four Division I national titles.

Quincy Osborn (Jr., Grand Rapids, Minn.) claimed his first national championship at 141 pounds, and Jeremy Anderson (Jr., Thief River Falls, Minn.) also earned his first national championship, completing his second All-American season with a 5-2 win over Joe Galante of the College of New Jersey in the title bout at 157 pounds.

For more on the 2007 Augsburg national championship, including stories on each of the four sessions and photos from the tournament (to be added later), click here:

http://www.augsburg.edu/athletics/wrestling/0607statistics/2007ncaa.html

Subject: Lars Christiansen's Houseluna performance
Submitter: Lars Christiansen, Assistant Professor, Sociology

Message: My e-rock-tronica / pop project, Houseluna, is performing this Saturday, March 10, at the Kitty Cat Klub in Dinkytown. We start at 10 p.m.. 315 14th Ave SE, Mpls.. $5 cover. Kitty Cat is a great venue. Contact Lars at christil@augsburg.edu or x1226 if you have any questions.