Public Safety and Facilities Announcements
Teaching and Learning
General Announcements
Keeping Track of Auggies
Auggie Athletics
Public Safety and Facilities Announcements
Lindell Library Graduation Week and Summer Hours
During this final exam and graduation week, Lindell Library will be open:
Wednesday, April 29 -- 8 a.m. - 1 a.m.
Thursday, April 30 -- 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Friday, May 1 -- 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday, May 2 -- 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday, May 3 -- Noon - 6 p.m.
Regular summer hours begin May 4:
Monday-Friday -- 9 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Saturday – 7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday -- Noon - 6 p.m.
Hours are always available on the Lindell Library web site: www.augsburg.edu/library
Online library resources are also available 24/7 on that website.
Teaching and Learning
Writing Lab Hours
The Augsburg College Writing Lab will close for the spring semester after the Wednesday, April 29, evening shift (6:30 - 9 p.m.). The Lab will open for graduate, WEC, and summer course support on Tuesday, May 5. Hours from May 5 through the end of SS II, August 7, are Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 4 -6 p.m.
General Announcements
Students: Submit Envelope for May Paycheck
Students:
If you would like your May 15 paycheck mailed to your home, please submit a self-addressed, stamped envelop to Human Resources along with your timesheet by May 5.
Also, please remember postage rates will rise before May 15. Correct postage for your paycheck will be $0.44. Human Resources will not be able to mail your paycheck without correct postage.
Summer Flex Points For Staff and Faculty
If you are going to still be around this summer, please contact Danny Nguyen 612-359-6475 or augsburg@aviands.com to keep your points going. We clean up the system and are going to a new operating system in June so it is critical that you contact him no later than May 1st to keep your points available. Thank you, Augsburg Dining.
Spring Day Grades Due Friday, May 8
Spring Day grades are due Friday, May 8.
Grading information can be found at
http://www.augsburg.edu/enroll/registrar/faculty/index.html
then click on Faculty Information.
Timely grade submission is important to our students. Many of our Day students are dependent on scholarships which require graded coursework for continuance or for application for new monies. Thank you for your efforts to support our students.
Corporate and Foundation Relations Survey
Augsburg is energetically working to foster strategic alliances that engage corporations and foundations in our work. Our goal is to develop comprehensive, campus-wide corporate and foundation relationships that will increase charitable gifts to the college. We want to increase outreach activities to corporations and foundations, particularly those with faculty, staff, student, alumni and Regent connections. These relationships are very important because they can help open doors for Augsburg to begin conversations with corporations and foundations.
We need your help to identify existing relationships with approximately 40 major corporations and foundations that have the potential to become major investors in Augsburg College. Please take five minutes to complete a web-based survey on corporate and foundation connections. The survey can be accessed by going to the following web address: http://web.augsburg.edu/it/survey.
We will follow up with you directly based on any connections you may have. We would appreciate it if you would complete the survey by May 31. Thank you for your help with this important work.
Laura Roller, Corporate and Foundation Relations Director
Jeremy Wells, Vice President, Institutional Advancement
Vacant Seats - Nominations Open for Staff Senate
Are you interested in, or do you know an Augsburg staff member that would like to be nominated to serve a two year term on staff senate? We are looking to fill two vacant positions. Nominations will close on Thursday, May 13 at 4 p.m. Please email staffsenate@augsburg.edu
Student Bookstore Accounts to Close
Students: bookstore accounts will close in early May. This is slightly ahead of the previously published schedule.
Unspent bookstore money will return to your student account, possibly resulting in a credit refund. Sign up for direct deposit of that refund! It takes less time to sign up than to cash even one check at the bank.
Go to www.augsburg.edu/enroll and look for the Direct Deposit information.
Have a great summer!
Keeping Track of Auggies
Graduating Senior Wins National Poetry Award
English major and graduating senior Kayla Skarbakka has received an Intro Journals Project Award for Poetry. Kayla will receive an honorarium and will have her poem "Shaded Noon" published in the prestigious Mid-American Review. Sponsored by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the Intro Journals Project is a literary competition for the discovery and publication of the best new works by undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled in the programs of AWP. We congratulate Kayla on her achievement and well-deserved recognition.
Auggie Athletics
Three Auggies Named to Football Honor Society
Three Auggies named to FB honor society
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2009/4/28/fb042809a.aspx?path=football
MINNEAPOLIS -- Three Augsburg College football seniors were named to the 2009 National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Hampshire Honor Society, honoring some of the top student-athletes in college football.
Augsburg quarterback Jordan Berg (SR, Gaylord, Minn./Sibley East HS) and offensive linemen Brandon Rudenick (SR, Nicollet, Minn.) and Mike Struss (SR, Nicollet, Minn.) were named to the Hampshire Honor Society. Berg is a physics major with a 3.773 grade-point average, while Rudenick is a health and physical education major with a 3.529 GPA, and Struss is a business management major with a 3.423 GPA.
To qualify, student-athletes must be a starter or significant substitute in their last year of eligibility, have a minimum 3.2 cumulative grade-point average (4.0 scale), and meet all NCAA-mandated progress towards degree requirements. A total of 564 players from 266 schools qualified for membership in the society's third year, a 27 percent increase from the 2008 class. In its inaugural year in 2007, the Hampshire Honor Society honored over 300 students from 195 schools.
Berg and Rudenick were both named to the All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference first team this season, while Struss earned All-MIAC second-team honors. Berg and Rudenick also earned D3football.com All-West Region second-team honors this season. Berg was also named as one of 10 finalists, and one of four regional finalists, for the Gagliardi Trophy, honoring the top student-athlete in NCAA Division III football.
Berg finished his three-season career at Augsburg as the top passing quarterback in school history. In his career, Berg finished with 8,777 passing yards (292.6 yards per-game) on 796-of-1,350 pasing with 74 touchdowns -- all school records. Berg also holds the MIAC's career passing yardage record (conference games-only) with 7,414 yards in 24 league games.
In his first year as Augsburg's starting center after missing last season due to injury, Rudenick led an offense that averaged 378.3 yards per-game (second-best in the MIAC), including a passing average of 325.5 yards per-game -- tops among MIAC teams and fifth-best nationally among Division III teams -- while surrendering just 22 sacks. Rudenick has been a versatile lineman, playing both on the offensive and defensive sides of the ball in his career. Rudenick was also a team co-captain this season.
Struss completed his second full year as a starter for the Auggies on the offensive line. In his two seasons as a starter at tackle, Augsburg has produced 8,030 yards of total offense (401.5 yards per-game), including 6,839 passing yards (341.95 yards per-game), while surrendering just 45 sacks.
Under fourth-year head coach Frank Haege, Augsburg finished 5-5 overall, 3-5 in MIAC play, duplicating its record from 2007. Augsburg opened its season with four straight victories, including its second win in a row over nationally-ranked Wartburg (Iowa) in nonconference play, a 30-24 overtime win on Sept. 13.
Berg Named Finalist for CSN Student-Athlete Award
Berg named finalist for CSN award
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2009/4/28/fb042809.aspx?path=football
MINNEAPOLIS -- Augsburg College football quarterback Jordan Berg (SR, Gaylord, Minn./Sibley East HS) was named as one of three finalists for the fourth annual College Sporting News Senior Student-Athlete Award for the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, it was announced on Monday.
The CSN Senior Student-Athlete Award is awarded to one male and one female senior student-athlete who personify what the MIAC and NCAA Division III athletics represent: academic excellence, outstanding athletic performance, and a commitment to community service.
Berg was named as one of three male finalists for the award, joining St. John's golfer Joe Daly and Hamline basketball player Tony Thrasher. Female finalists are Gustavus softball player Rachael Click, St. Thomas volleyball player Katie McCaffrey and St. Thomas cross country/track athlete Katie Theisen. The finalists were picked from a pool of nine male student-athletes nominated from MIAC schools, and selected by a CSN committee of former conference student-athletes, along with administrators and coaches. The award-winners will be announced next week.
Berg finished his three-season career at Augsburg as the top passing quarterback in school history. In his career, Berg finished with 8,777 passing yards (292.6 yards per-game) on 796-of-1,350 pasing with 74 touchdowns -- all school records. Berg also holds the MIAC's career passing yardage record (conference games-only) with 7,414 yards in 24 league games.
Berg completed 297-of-499 passes for 3,226 yards and 25 touchdowns against just 14 interceptions in 2008, the completion total a single-season school record. Each of the other passing totals were the second-most in a single season in school history, behind his numbers from 2007. Nationally in 2008, Berg finished second among Division III quarterbacks in completions per-game (29.70), fourth in passing yardage per-game (322.60), ninth in total passing yardage (3,226), ninth in total offense yardage per-game (314.2) and 22nd in points responsible for per-game (17.00). Berg led the MIAC in passing yardage per-game and total offense in both overall (322.6, 314.2) and conference games-only (333.4, 320.6).
In 2008, Berg was named as one of 10 finalists, and later as one of four regional finalists, for the Gagliardi Trophy, given to the top student-athlete in NCAA Division III football. Berg was also named first-team All-MIAC, his second all-conference honor, after being named second-team All-MIAC in 2007. He was also named to the D3football.com All-West Region second team. In November, he was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District first team. A physics major with a 3.773 grade-point average, he was an Academic All-MIAC honoree in both 2007 and 2008. He is a team co-captain.
At the recent Auggie Awards, Berg was selected as Augsburg's Male Honor Athlete, the highest honor given to Augsburg's senior student-athletes for athletic and academic excellence.
In addition to his athletic and academic credentials, Berg has served as a volunteer at local food shelves and a volunteer coach at youth basketball camps. He took part in a mission trip to Benton Harbor, Mich., to volunteer at a local Boys and Girls Club and help refurbish and paint homes of people in need. He has volunteered for Adopt-a-Highway trash pickup efforts, as well as park cleanup for Earth Day. He has taken part in Christmas caroling with a church group at an area nursing home/Heritage House, and has worked as a volunteer teacher's assistant with elementary physical education classes.
A skilled artist, Berg has designed logos for the football team and Augsburg's Student Athlete Advisory Committee, along with painting a mural for the Augsburg football locker room and designing tattoos for both himself and his teammates. He has also restored his own Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Frykmark Named MIAC Women's Golfer of Week
Frykmark named MIAC Women's Golfer of Week
MINNEAPOLIS -- Augsburg College women's golfer Johanna Frykmark (SO, Stockholm, Sweden/Rollingby Gymnasium HS) was named Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Women's Golf Athlete of the Week, it was announced on Tuesday.
At the Macalester Spring Extravaganza on Saturday, Frykmark shot a career-best 4-over-par 76 to earn medalist honors, leading Augsburg to victory in the three-team meet with a single-round total of 366 -- its best round since the 2004-05 campaign.
Frykmark shot just the fourth round in the 70s in the 15-year history of the Augsburg women's golf program and the second-best round in school history. Marisa Navarro holds the school single-round record with a 72 shot in a 2005 meet. Frykmark's previous career-best round was 81.
An All-MIAC golfer last season, Frykmark has struggled with a chronic thumb injury this year. But she finished the spring half of the season strong, with three of her five spring rounds in the 70s and 80s, including Saturday's 76 round.
Frykmark finished the 2008-09 season with a 90.8 stroke average, second-best on the team. Her 91.0 career stroke average is currently fourth-best in school history.
Classifieds
Don't You Want an Augsburg Quilt?
Have you found that you've accumulated a large number of Augsburg t-shirts over the years? Let me turn them into a warm, cuddly quilt -- the perfect graduation gift! Nine shirts will make a 45"x45" quilt, perfect for covering up when you're watching tv or reading. Just $100! Larger sizes also available. Email wheelerw@augsburg.edu for more information.
Big Weber Grill for Sale
Ice fishing done, time to grill. Big Weber Grill: combination of gas and charcoals. NO Stinky Fluid needed. Big grilling surface can accommodate 4-5 steaks + 5-8 corn stalks. New was $680.00, about 5 years old, too big for my needs; as the result in last 2-3 years the grill was used maybe six(6) times!! WILL SELL FOR $285.00. paleczny@augsburg.edu