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GMAT Preparation at Augsburg

Thinking about a Master of Business Administration program after graduation? Most MBA programs require the GMAT (Graduate Management Admissions Test) for admission. The Augsburg MBA Program is partnering with the Princeton Review to provide GMAT preparation at a discounted rate.

The on-campus course will meet Wednesdays 6-9 p.m. for seven weeks (June 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30, and July 7 & 14). The discounted cost is $549, which includes access to the Princeton Review's online student center, the Manual for the GMAT 8.3, and the GMAT Review 12th edition.

To register, contact Princeton Review by calling 612-676-1447, or stop by the MBA office in Oren Gateway suite 115 to pick up a registration form.

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Fulbright Student Program Competition - Open Now

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program Competition is now open!

For more than 60 years, the federal government-sponsored Fulbright U.S. Student Program has provided future American leaders with an unparalleled opportunity to study, conduct research, and teach in other countries.

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards over 1,500 grants annually and currently operates in more than 140 countries worldwide. Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships are now available to over 50 countries. Fulbright grants provide funding for round-trip travel, maintenance for one academic year, health and accident coverage and may also provide full or partial tuition.

To start your application process, please make an appointment with Dixie Shafer (shafer@augsburg.edu) in the URGO Office.

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Enrollment Center Closing Early

The Enrollment Center will be closing at 2 p.m. on Friday, May 28 for the Memorial holiday and will also be closed on Memorial day. We will reopen for normal business hours on Tuesday, June 1.

Thank you and have a safe Memorial holiday!

Enrollment Center Staff

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Women's Resource Center Survey for Faculty and Staff

Please help the Anne Pederson Women's Resource Center to better serve Augsburg faculty and staff by participating in a short survey of just a few questions. This survey is for faculty and staff only; students will have other opportunities to provide feedback. The survey will be available until June 15.

Thank you for participating - we welcome your ideas!

The survey is available here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3DSCG7X

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Community Time

Take a breather in the cool comfort of the East Commons to enjoy refreshments and conversation with faculty and staff colleagues in the East Commons on Tuesday, May 25, 3:45-4:30.

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Community Service Days - Help Still Needed

The traditional Campus Beautification event has been expanded this year to include community service projects off campus. This will allow more campus members to get involved and offer greater variety of projects. Members of the Augsburg community are invited to join us in the following projects June 14-16, 2010.

Feed My Starving Children—We need 3 more people
Community Garden/Local Community Garden—FULL
Project Linus—FULL
Books for Africa—We need 5 more people

Sign up online at http://bit.ly/bbCq4W by June 1.

Also, be sure to mark your calendars for the summer picnic on Wednesday, June 16 at noon in Murphy Park!

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Diversity and Global Learning Conference

The 2nd Annual Augsburg College Diversity and Global Learning Conference will take place May 25th and 26th, beginning at 8:30 each day.

The opening keynote session on Tuesday, May 25th (in the chapel) features President Paul Pribbenow and Chief Diversity Officer Andrea Turner on "The Reasons Why: Augsburg's Commitments to Diversity."

If you'd like more information about the conference sessions and schedule, please visit the Diversity and Global Learning moodle site. If you are not yet 'enrolled,' please send Lori Brandt Hale an email requesting to be added. (hale@augsburg.edu) Also, printed programs with brief descriptions of each session will be available on Tuesday morning.

All faculty and staff are welcome to attend. If your schedule does not permit you to attend every session, please feel free to come as you are able. (Please make every effort to attend individual sessions in their entirety.) Students are welcome, too.

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5 Auggies Named All-MIAC in Baseball

http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/5/19/base052110.aspx?path=baseball

MINNEAPOLIS -- Five Augsburg College baseball players earned various All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honors, it was announced this week.

Catcher Craig Henry (SR, Lino Lakes, Minn./Centennial HS), pitcher Kristofer Ozga (JR, Hawthorn Woods, Ill./Stevenson HS) and first-baseman Joe Pierce (SR, Eden Prairie, Minn.) earned All-MIAC recognition, while pitcher Mark Heise (JR, Foley, Minn.) was named to the MIAC All-Defensive Team and outfielder Derek Williamson (SR, St. Francis, Minn.) was named to the All-MIAC Sportsmanship Team.

Henry earned All-MIAC honors for the fourth straight season, one of only two MIAC seniors to earn All-MIAC first-team baseball honors each of their four years (Macalester's James Murrey is the other). Pierce earned All-MIAC honors for the second straight year.

Augsburg's cleanup hitter, Pierce had the best year of his Auggie career in 2010, hitting .455 with 55 hits, seven doubles, three triples, three home runs, 26 runs scored, and a team-best 40 RBI. He was the MIAC's batting-average leader in overall play, while standing second in conference games-only with a .482 average. In MIAC overall statistics, Pierce stood second in both slugging percentage (.636) and on-base percentage (.518), and his RBI total was fourth-best. Pierce struck out just five times in 141 plate appearances this season. Defensively, he had just one error in 237 chances for a .996 fielding percentage.

During the season, Pierce had a 32-game hitting streak -- the second-longest consecutive-game hitting streak among any NCAA Division III player this season and the 16th-longest streak in Division III history. Pierce had 18 multiple-hit games and 12 multiple-RBI games this season.

In his Augsburg career (74 games, 72 starts), Pierce finished with a .433 batting average (103-of-238), with 55 runs scored, 22 doubles, four triples, five home runs, 73 RBI, a .622 slugging percentage and a .504 on-base percentage. He struck out just 18 times in 276 plate appearances. He finished his career with a .990 fielding percentage, with just five errors in 477 defensive chances.

Henry finished second on the team in hitting with a .388 average, with team highs in hits (59) and doubles (13). He also had 35 runs scored, a triple, three home runs, 35 RBI, a .546 slugging percentage and a .439 on-base percentage.

For the third straight season, Henry led the MIAC in throwing out runners trying to steal, with 22 throw-outs in 83 attempts this season. In league games-only, Henry threw out a conference-best 12 runners in 37 attempts. In his career, Henry threw out 67 runners trying to steal in 209 attempts (32 percent), including 42 of 123 attempts in MIAC games-only.

In his four-year career (147 starts in 148 games), Henry finished with a .378 career batting average (186-of-492), with 121 runs scored, 47 doubles, nine triples, seven home runs, 98 RBI, a .553 slugging percentage and a .436 on-base percentage.

In his second season with the Auggies after transferring from Central (Iowa), Ozga shined as both a starter and reliever, posting a 4-4 record with four saves and a 4.47 earned-run average. After starting the year as a starter, he was converted to a reliever late in the year, coming in from the bullpen in eight of the Auggies' final 10 games.

In 21 pitching appearances (10 starts) and a team-best 58.1 innings pitched, Ozga struck out 31 while walking 39, while allowing a .288 opponent batting average, the second-lowest opponent batting average on the team.

In two years at Augsburg (34 appearances, 19 starts), Ozga has a 7-10 record with four saves in 110.2 innings pitched. He has a 3.98 ERA in his two Auggie seasons, with 85 strikeouts against 60 walks and a .272 opponent batting average.

Heise was named to the MIAC All-Defensive Team, the first year that the conference has given the award in baseball. Defensively, Heise posted a .947 fielding percentage, with just one error in 19 chances. While on the mound, six runners were caught trying to steal in 15 attempts, with one pickoff.

In 47.2 innings pitched this season in 17 appearances (eight starts), Heise had a 3-3 record with a 4.53 ERA, with 13 strikeouts against 23 walks and a .316 opponent batting average. In his Auggie career (31 appearances, nine starts, 67.1 innings pitched), Heise has a 5-3 record with a 4.95 ERA and 28 strikeouts against 32 walks and a .313 opponent batting average.

Williamson was named to the All-MIAC Sportsmanship Team. As a part of the conference's sportsmanship initiative, members of the All-MIAC Sportsmanship Team are selected by their coaches and teammates as individuals who demonstrate ideals of positive sportsmanship both on and off the field of competition.

Returning to the Auggie roster after a year's absence, Williamson appeared in 16 games with a .273 average, with four runs scored, two RBI and a double. In his two seasons as an Auggie (49 games, 41 starts), Williamson had a .287 batting average with 26 runs scored, 11 doubles, three triples, two home runs and 26 RBI.

Under seventh-year head coach Keith Bateman, Augsburg finished the 2010 season with a 21-22 record, 12-8 in MIAC play. The Auggies finished in fourth place in the MIAC standings, earning a trip to the conference postseason playoffs for the second time in school history. Augsburg won its first two games in the MIAC postseason to reach the playoff finals, but fell twice to regular-season champ and defending national champ St. Thomas.

Augsburg's baseball team has experienced a revival of fortunes in the seven seasons under Bateman. His teams have recorded 16 or more wins in each of his seven seasons at Augsburg, including this year's finish. The 2005 MIAC Co-Coach of the Year, Bateman is 133-139-1 in his seven seasons at Augsburg.

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Auggie Women's Relay Qualifies for NCAAs

http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/5/23/wtrk052310.aspx?path=wtrack

MINNEAPOLIS -- The Augsburg College school record-holding women's 400-meter relay team of Whitney Holman (SR, New Hope, Minn./Robbinsdale Armstrong HS), Ashley Carney (FY, Lakeville, Minn./Lakeville South HS), Katie Vrieze (JR, Richfield, Minn.) and Shanek Telphia (FY, Chicago, Ill./Gage Park HS) will compete in the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships this weekend at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.

This marks the first time in school history that Augsburg has sent a 400-meter relay team to the NCAA women's outdoor championships.

The Augsburg 400-meter relay team owns the 10th-fastest time among the 15 teams participating at the championships this weekend. Preliminary races for the 400-meter relay will be held on Thursday afternoon at 3:45 p.m., while the finals will be Saturday at 1 p.m.

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