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CTL Night at the Theatre

Attention Faculty and Staff: The Center for Teaching and Learning has 20 tickets available for the play “The Visit”, directed by LuVerne Seifert ’83, on Friday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. If you’d like a free ticket, call x1229.

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Distinguished Contributions Award

Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Learning
Annual Recognition 2008

The Office of Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College
The Center for Teaching and Learning
Augsburg College

These awards recognize exemplary work by faculty and staff in support of teaching and learning at Augsburg College. Up to three awards are available annually reflecting the breadth of contributions important for a quality liberal education. Each award carries a stipend of $1,000, public recognition, and celebration.

Awards are based on evidence of student learning and student satisfaction provided by students, colleagues, and documentation; they are weighted appropriately for each of the three areas. The selection process is as follows:

• The deadline for nominations is Friday, Feb. 22, 2008. Nominations should be submitted on line. Go to: www.augsburg.edu/ctl

• Questions can be directed to Diane Pike at pike@augsburg.edu or x1228.

• Nominations consist of a one to two-page letter identifying the nominee and providing a rationale for the nomination; in addition, nominators are asked to submit three to four names (and e-mail addresses) of students and/or colleagues who can speak to nominee’s work.
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• The Selection Panel conducts confidential interviews with members of the community, reviews information and announces the awards no later than March 28. Awardees are acknowledged at the Honors Convocation and at other events. Opportunities for winners to share ideas with the campus community will take place throughout the year following the award.

The Selection Panel is invited by the Dean of the College and the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning. This is a juried process.

Teaching Award
Sustained excellence is demonstrated through syllabi, course materials and grading patterns reflecting effective teaching and learning; exemplary work in both content and pedagogy is supported by evidence from the department chair, colleagues and students.

Mentor/Advising
Sustained excellence is demonstrated through deep conversation about and attention to vocation, career and student success overall; Students are guided through the processes leading to successful and timely graduation; Students recognize the attention and care provided by the nominee.

Service to Students/Other Direct Contributions to Teaching and Learning
Sustained excellence is demonstrated in work that contributes to students’ academic development, growth and success; Contributions are made to a positive, academic campus environment in a direct way.

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Biology Candidate Seminars

The Biology Department is hosting faculty candidates this week.

On Wednesday, Feb. 6, Dr. Jennifer Bankers-Fulbright will give a talk entitled "Search and Destroy: How Your Immune System Finds and Kills Microbes (a.k.a., the study of immunophysiomicrobiology!)." This seminar will be held in SCI 123.

On Friday, Feb. 8, Dr. Lakshmi Nagarajan will present "Designing effective DNA vaccines using molecularly engineered biomaterials for targeted delivery of DNA." This seminar will be held in SCI 123.

All seminars will be held from 3:45 - 4:45 p.m. Refreshments will be provided.

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ACTC Women's Studies Conference

Are you doing work in Women’s Studies? Are you involved in feminist/womanist activism? We're looking for student posters and presentations on research, activism, or creative works. Please e-mail a short paragraph describing your proposed presentation to nathanso@augsburg.edu. Include your name, phone number, school, and major/minor. Deadline: Feb. 15.

The conference will take place on Friday, March 7 from 3:30 - 8 p.m. in Christensen Center. Admission is free, and dinner is provided -- and there will be iPod Door Prizes!

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Salvadoran Popular Education Team on Campus TODAY

One of the renowned innovators today in the field of Popular Education is Equipo Maíz, a group based in El Salvador. They started their work in 1983 in the middle of the war there. Many of the Center for Global Education's International Travel Seminars and Semester Programs meet with the "Corn Team" during their stay in El Salvador.

Equipo Maiz helps people discover how their daily lives and communities are connected to the larger world. Through this understanding, people are then able to form opinions and decide how to create positive change in their community, their country, and the world.

Come meet two members of Equipo MAIZ!
Pick up your lunch in the cafeteria and join them to learn all about their creative and empowering educational techniques.

WHEN: Wednesday, Feb. 6, from noon to 1:30 p.m.

WHERE: The Century Room, Christensen Center

WHAT: Popular Education is a collection of politics and pedagogy that is about the liberation and empowerment of communities. This tradition was stimulated by the work of Paulo Freire in Brazil in the late 1960s, and subsequently spread throughout Latin America and the world through movements for social justice.

Equipo Maíz produces wide-ranging curricula and conduct training around the world. To learn more, visit www.equipomaiz.org.sv/HisTodo.html

Waite House and Pillsbury United Communities are arranging this special visit to the United States.

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Faculty Scholarship Forum

Faculty Scholarship Forum

Thursday Feb. 28, 2008
4 - 5:45 p.m.

*Oren Gateway Johnson Conference Center*
*Gage Gallery*

In order to build our academic community and recognize the professional work of colleagues, the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of the Dean invite your participation in the Faculty Scholarship Forum. This event is an opportunity for faculty to showcase their research and creative projects. The format involves two rounds of presentations to a generalist audience: 4 - 4:40 p.m. and 5 - 5:40 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28. Wine and appetizers will be offered during the “intermission.”

You are invited to present in one time slot and learn about other colleagues’ work in the second slot. Each presenter gives a 20 minute roundtable talk followed by 15 minutes of discussion with an audience of six to eight faculty and staff colleagues. Please bring handouts or objects as no electronic support is available for this type of presentation. If you need a particular time slot to present, let us know.

Faculty from all disciplines create scholarship throughout their careers. This event is a wonderful opportunity to discover what that looks like from many different perspectives. We hope this forum will showcase the work of a diversity of colleagues. Faculty recently returned from sabbatical, as well as colleagues who received research and travel grants are particularly encouraged to participate. This is also an excellent venue for newer faculty members to introduce their talents. Your participation as an audience member is essential. And this is fun. Please join us in celebrating this vibrant aspect of our professional life together.

NEW: Very brief abstract forms are available on the CTL webpage and should be submitted online at www.augsburg.edu/ctl. We plan to offer 12-14 different presentations (six to seven different faculty each round) and to repeat this forum with different presenters next November. If this model is successful, we hope to offer the Forum as a regular event twice a year.

Details are on the web site and questions are welcome to: pike@augsburg.edu.

On-line Abstracts due Feb. 22.

NB: This event replaces the faculty presentations at Zyzzogeton, which will be held in April and focus on student work.

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Winter Retreat

Life of the Mind Retreat
March 7-8, 2008
Oak Ridge Conference Center, Chaska

“Creating Dialogue on Tough Issues: Religion, Politics and Violence” facilitated by Jacqui deVries and Jim Trelstad-Porter. There are 20 spaces reserved for faculty and staff. Costs are paid by the Center for Teaching and Learning. The book “Infidel” by Ayann Hirsi Ali will be available for reading by each participant prior to the retreat. You may register by calling x1229 or send an e-mail to martin. Books for retreat participants are available in the CTL office in the link level of the library. Specific retreat information will follow in February.

Future events can be found on the CTL webpage www.augsburg.edu/ctl.

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Summer Study Abroad Deadlines Extended

Were you thinking about studying abroad this summer, but it's too late to get in your application? You are in luck! The application deadlines have been extended for the following short-term programs, so download an application today!

New Deadline: This Thursday, Feb. 7
WWII and Its Aftermath in Germany/ Poland/Czech Republic
Dates: May 10-24, 2008

New Deadline: March 1
Sustainable Cities in North America
Dates: July 9-29, 2008

New Deadline: March 1
Exploring the Migrant Trail in Mexico
Dates: July 5-19, 2008

Earn academic credit, fulfill your Augsburg Experience, and even use your financial aid while experiencing another culture! Visit http://www.augsburg.edu/augsburgabroad/ for applications and more details.

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World Visions Staff Book Group -- Book Change

Greg Mortenson, author of the New York Times bestseller "Three Cups of Tea," is scheduled to be a presenter at this year's Peace Prize Forum. He has established schools in the most remote poverty stricken parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and is the founder of nonprofit Central Asia Institute and Pennies For Peace.

Given this wonderful opportunity to hear him speak at the Peace Prize Forum, we have decided to change our winter book selection to his book, "Three Cups of Tea."

“Three Cups of Tea is one of the most remarkable adventure stories of our time. Greg Mortenson’s dangerous and difficult quest to build schools in the wildest parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan is not only a thrilling read, it’s proof that one ordinary person, with the right combination of character and determination, really can change the world.” - Tom Brokaw

We will meet the following dates in the Riverside Room from noon - 1:15 p.m. to discuss the book:

Feb. 13, 2008
March 5, 2008

All staff members are welcome! Books will not be provided this time, so please obtain your own if you would like to participate. This book can be found in the Augsburg bookstore, as well as at other retailers and online sites. If you have already purchased our previous winter book selection, "A Thousand Splendid Suns," hang on to it as we may read it in the spring.

Please RSVP to Holley Locher at locherh@augsburg.edu or x1763 by Monday, Feb. 11, 2008.

World Visions charter members: Emily Cronk, Lynn Ellingson, Kathy Fagen, Amy Greeley, Holley Locher and Lisa Roe

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Nash Primus and Alison Price Art Reception Friday

Join student art majors this Friday, Feb. 8 as they celebrate the opening of their show "over the river and through the woods...DETOUR!" The fun begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Student Art Gallery and runs until 9 p.m.

This exhibition will be on view through Friday, Feb. 15 in the Student Art Gallery, Christensen Center.

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Spanish Conversation and Lunch

You are invited to attend the Spanish conversation group that will meet every Thursday from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in the Riverside room, on the 2nd floor of the Christensen Center. Drop in for 10 mins. or for the whole 90 mins. -- whatever works for you! Whether you're fluent in Spanish or just starting a beginning class, this will be a good practice experience. Bring your lunch if you want. We look forward to seeing you there! Questions? Contact Emiliano Chagil, Anita Fisher or Kate Reinhardt.

Exciting news: attend three sessions of the conversation group and receive a free t-shirt that says, "Augsburg habla espanol"!

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Hollis Watkins TONIGHT

Please join the Pan Afrikan Center in welcoming Hollis Watkins, who will be speaking tonight in the East Commons about the role of song in the civil rights movement. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. and is open to all.

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Summer Bridge 2008 Job -- Student Posting

Do you want to have fun and help shape young(er) minds this summer? TRIO/SSS is now accepting applications for the position of Summer Bridge 2008 Residential Peer Mentor. Summer Bridge is a 5-week residential academic program for 25 incoming first-year Augsburg students planning to participate in TRIO/SSS. Students take two summer classes and participate in supplemental instruction seminars, study groups, college adjustment workshops, and fun activities.

Residential Peer Mentors (RPMs) will be responsible for planning, facilitating and participating in evening Summer Bridge activities, as well as monitoring the well-being and safety of Summer Bridge participants. There are four openings (2 male, 2 female) for this live-in position. This position is full-time, variable hours, from July 6 - Aug. 8, plus 1 week of training (dates to be determined).

See a complete job description, requirements, compensation and application information at the TRIO/SSS web site www.augsburg.edu/triosss, or stop by the TRIO/SSS Office, SCI 152.

Deadline is Feb. 15, so apply now!

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Artist Barbara Harman to Speak at Noon on Feb. 7

Local painter, printmaker, and book artist Barbara Harman will discuss her work featured in the Christensen Center Art Exhibition "By Water." Her gallery talk will be at noon. All are invited; refreshments will be provided.

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Only 2 Days Left

AASA will be selling roses in the Christensen Center this afternoon as well as tomorrow. The roses will be delivered on Valentines day and are available in bouquets or as single roses. Please visit their table and support the Augsburg Asian Student Association. Only 2 days left!

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Sodexho Dining Menu

Wednesday
Feb. 6, 2008

LUNCH

Open Face Turkey Sandwich
Mashed Potatoes
Steamed Vegetables
Gravy
Chicken Breast
Rice Pilaf
Corn with Butter
Egg Plant Parmesan
French Fries
Chicken Stir Fry
Deli Bar
Pizza Bar
Pasta Bar

Soup - Cream of Mushroom or Turkey with orzo

DINNER

Pork Loin with Sage
Sauté Apple
Sweet Yam
Pasta Primavera
Carrots
Double Cheese Burger
Veggie Burger
French Fries
Steamed Vegetables
Deli Bar
Pizza Bar

Soup - Cream of Mushroom or Turkey with orzo

Menu Subject to Change Without Notice Depending Upon Availability of Item(s).

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Urban Night at Club 3 Degrees -- All Invited

All are invited to join Campus Ministry this Friday in attending Urban Night at Club Three Degrees, a Christian club in Downtown Minneapolis. The night features: F.A.I.T.H., Kelli Rae, Cathy Crescendo, and Theresa Decker. We will meet by the chapel at 7 p.m. Your ticket into the club is FREE, but you will need to bring $3.00 for the light rail. Please feel free to e-mail flaten@augsburg.edu or hoyles@augsburg.edu with any questions!

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February Wednesday Gathering -- TODAY

The first Wednesday of the month gatherings support our commitment to building community and practicing common work. They are an opportunity to get to know one another, exchange ideas, and collaborate in new ways.

The February lunch will be served in the East Commons of the Christensen Center from 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. The security and custodial night shift employees are also invited to the Wednesday Evening Gathering at 8:00 p.m. in the Century Room.

We hope you will invite your colleagues and plan to join us!

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On-Campus Grief Support Group Starting Soon

Struggling with grief or loss? Please call either Jon (x1337) or A (x1694) -- two counselors from Augsburg's Center for Counseling & Health Promotion -- for more info about the group and how to join.

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Lunar New Year Event

The Augsburg Asian Student Association (AASA) is hosting events to celebrate the Lunar New Year and would like to invite you to participate.

These events will be held on Thurs. Feb. 7, 2008 in the Main Lobby (near the cafe), Christensen Center.

EVENTS:

PART I: Dragon Dance

Main Lobby (near cafe), CC

4:30 - 5 p.m.


PART II: Panel discussion of various Asian New Year celebration traditions.

Marshall Room, CC

5 - 6 p.m.
Refreshments will be served.

(Please note that these times are the update times compared to the invitations that were already handed out.)

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Auggie Accepted by University of Chicago

Congratulations to Curtiss Schreiber, Augsburg senior and editor-in-chief of the Echo, who has just been accepted into the prestigious University of Chicago School of Law. He will begin his legal studies in September 2008.

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Holman Named MIAC Women's Track Athlete of Week

Augsburg's Whitney Holman named MIAC Women's Track Athlete of the Week
http://www.augsburg.edu/athletics/sportsnews/020508holman.html

MINNEAPOLIS (2/5/08) -- Augsburg College women's track and field athlete Whitney Holman (SO, New Hope, Minn./Robbinsdale Armstrong HS) was named Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Women's Track Athlete of the Week, it was announced on Monday.

Holman earned the conference honors after claiming a win in the women's 55-meter dash in a conference-best time at the Bethel Invitational on Saturday. Holman won the event in 7.50 seconds, the fastest time run by a MIAC female in the event so far this indoor season. Her time is edging closer to the NCAA Division III national meet provisional qualifying time of 7.32 seconds. Also at the Bethel meet, Holman also finished third in the 200-meter dash in 27.78 seconds, currently the sixth-fastest time in the conference in the event.

Holman has been Augsburg's top women's sprinter the past two seasons. As a first-year student last year, Holman earned All-MIAC honorable-mention honors during the indoor season with a fourth-place finish in the 55-meter dash and fifth-place finish in the 200-meter dash at the 2007 MIAC indoor championships. At the 2007 MIAC outdoor championships, Holman just missed earning All-MIAC honorable-mention honors, finishing seventh in the 100-meter dash.

A two-sport athlete at Augsburg, Holman earned 2007 All-MIAC honorable-mention honors as a forward/defender on the Augsburg women's soccer team. Holman showed her versatility in 2007 by moving from forward to defense midway through the campaign. She finished the 2007 campaign with one goal and one assist for three points, and has five goals and four assists for 14 points in her two-season career (36 games, 36 starts).

Augsburg competes at the Carleton Meet of the Hearts on Saturday (2/9) at 11 a.m. in Northfield, Minn.

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Ellertson Named MIAC Men's Hockey Player of Week

Augsburg's Cory Ellertson named MIAC Men's Hockey Player of the Week
http://www.augsburg.edu/athletics/sportsnews/020508ellertson.html

MINNEAPOLIS (2/5/08) -- Augsburg College men's hockey forward Cory Ellertson (FY, Albert Lea, Minn.) was named Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Men's Hockey Player of the Week, it was announced on Monday.

Ellertson earned MIAC Player of the Week honors for his five-point weekend (two goals, three assists) against Gustavus Adolphus College. Ellertson had a hand in every goal in Friday’s 4-3 Augsburg win at Gustavus, assisting on the first two tallies and scoring two power-play goals, including the game-winner with 1:35 left in the third period. In Saturday's 2-1 loss to the Gusties in Minneapolis, Ellertson assisted on Augsburg's lone goal, a power-play tally at the 4:05 mark of the first period.

Ellertson is now third on the team in scoring (seven goals, four assists, 11 points), including four power-play goals, tied for the team high. Ellertson currently stands seventh among MIAC first-year athletes in total points, with his seven goals tied for third-most among league first-year players.

Augsburg, now 3-14-2 overall and 1-9-0 in MIAC play, has a conference series at Concordia-Moorhead this weekend, with Friday's (2/8) game at 7 p.m. and Saturday's (2/9) game at 2 p.m.

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