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Register Now for Fall 2010 LSAT Prep

Registration is now open for the fall LSAT prep course!

Interested in Law School? If so, how you do on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) could make all the difference between getting into the Law School you want, and not getting into Law School at all.
An LSAT Prep Course is being offered this fall through the Office of Undergraduate Research and Graduate Opportunity. Our course instructor scored in the top 1% of test-takers and has taught LSAT seminars for 14 years. Most corporate tutors charge $175/Hour! URGO offers this 4-week course for only $150. It's never too early to take this course, even if you are just thinking about Law School.
Dates: Wednesdays October 6, 13, 20, and 27
Time: 6-9 PM
Location: Oren Gateway Center, Augsburg College
Alums and non-Augsburg students are also welcome to register.

To register go to: http://www.augsburg.edu/urgo/lsat_prep_reg.html

Questions? Contact Dixie Shafer at shafer@augsburg.edu

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Register Now for Fall 2010 GRE Prep

Registration is now open for the fall 2010 GRE prep course!

The class will be held on Tuesdays 6-9 p.m. from 9/21 to 10/26. Preference will be given to current Augsburg students and staff as well as alums. Individuals not affiliated with the college may register, but will be put on a waiting list and admitted only if the class does not fill up.

To register go to: http://www.augsburg.edu/urgo/gre_prep_reg.html.

Questions? Contact Dixie Shafer at shafer@augsburg.edu.

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Creating an Engaging Learning Environment

Monday, September 13, 7:30-9:00 am, Riverside Room of Christensen Center.

The opening session of our Foundational Series on Student Learning will focus on student engagement – how to welcome students and involve them in activities designed to create an inclusive, productive environment for learning. This series is designed to address the basic needs faced by anyone who designs learning experiences for our students. All faculty and staff are welcome to participate. Coffee and pastries will be served.

Facilitator: Ron Petrich, Education. Please rsvp to lashbroo@augsburg.edu.

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Mindful Dialogues: The Problem of General Education

Faculty and Staff Conversation with Wine and Cheese Reception
Thursday, September 23, 4:30-6:00, Riverside Room of Christensen Center.

This year launches a new series, Mindful Dialogues, to collectively examine issues relevant to higher education. In the fall, we will examine Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University, and in the spring, we will explore Krista Tippett's Einstein's God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit. The first session will address the first chapter, "The Problem of General Education." An informal wine and cheese reception will follow.
Facilitator: Doug Green, English.

RSVP to lashbroo@augsburg.edu so we can make proper arrangements and/or to obtain a copy of the book.

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Auggie Gear on Sale at Bookstore

Champion is on sale at the bookstore! Buy one regular item get the second item half off! Hurry in now, sale ends on Sept. 17th!

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September is National Recovery Month

This year is the 21st annual Recovery Month observance by the U.S. Department of health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA), and the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT).

Recovery Month serves to educate the public on how alcohol and drug addiction is a national health issue, a treatable illness, and that recovery is possible. Recovery Month highlights the benefits of treatment for not only the affected individual, but for their family, friends, workplace, and society as a whole. Educating the public reduces the stigma associated with addiction and treatment. Accurate knowledge of the disease helps people to understand the importance of supporting treatment programs, those who work within the treatment field, and those in need of treatment.

Many events and programs are scheduled throughout Minnesota, and the country, in September. For activities in Minnesota, visit www.minnesotarecovery.org/events/nrm.html. Augsburg College is hosting the Spirituality Breakfast on September 16th.

Throughout the month, the StepUP® Program will provide a fact, meditation, or other recovery-related tidbit.

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$10 Target Gift Cards up for Grabs

Want to earn an easy $10 Target gift card in less than an hour? Tell us about your experiences as an Auggie at an upcoming focus group.

Join us on from 4-5 p.m. on September 14,15,16,21,22,23

It's quick, easy, and a great way to have your opinions count! (And there are no wrong answers, how cool is that?)

Contact Amanda Storm, storma@augsburg.edu to sign up today!

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Study and Intern Abroad

Steps to study abroad...

1. Attend a Group Advising Meeting.
Group Advising Meetings are held DAILY in the Study Abroad Library in Murphy Place. You'll find out about finances, academics, and how to research programs around the world. See schedule below.

2. Choose a program.
Choose from quality Augsburg College programs and many affiliated programs.
There are over 300 programs available in over 80 different countries.

3. Apply by the deadline.

OCTOBER 1st Spring Semester & Faculty-led Winter Break Programs
February 1st Faculty-led Summer/Spring WEC programs
March 1st Fall Semester, Academic Year & non-Augsburg Summer

-----Advising Hours----

Monday
3:00 pm

Tuesday
9:00 am
4:00 pm

Wednesday
10:00 am
3:00 pm (for CGE: Central America, Mexico & Namibia)

Thursday
9:00 am
3:00 pm(for Faculty-led programs in Winter Break & Summer)

Friday
11:00 am
2:30 pm
+ Evening hours by appointment for Weekend College students.


questions? abroad@augsburg.edu www.augsburg.edu/augsburgabroad/

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Housing Specialist-Office Move

The office of the Housing Specialist, Cyndy Rowe, has moved from Anderson Hall to office 3B in the Urn-Mort lobby, formerly the first year study lounge. This is also where the Housing Specialist Assistant, Natassja Leach, and the Residential Communications Coordinator, Angela Burla, may be found.

Angela Burla
Residential Communications Coordinator
Department of Residence Life

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Free Lockers Available for Students

Campus Activities and Orientation has a limited number of lockers that students can reserve for their use for the academic year. These lockers are completely free and are located on the ground floor of Science Building. Lockers are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis, and priority is given to students who commute from off-campus. To find out more information on how to reserve a locker, contact Michael Grewe, CAO Assistant Director, via email at grewe@augsburg.edu as soon as possible!

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Laundry Room Update

Over the summer, the laundry rooms in Urness, Mortensen, Anderson, and Luther halls all received a fresh paint job. There was also new furniture purchased for the laundry rooms in Urness and Mort, and new washers and driers were installed in all of the laundry rooms to accommodate our new free laundry program! Any soap may be used in these machines, but high efficiency detergent works best. Please do your part to help keep our new laundry rooms looking new!

Angela Burla
Residential Communications Coordinator
Department of Residence Life

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Change to Classroom Trash and Recycling Procedure

Starting fall semester, all trash and recycling receptacles will be removed from classrooms and some meeting rooms throughout campus. Larger containers will be located in strategic hallway or central locations to make the disposal of refuse as easy as possible. Centralizing trash and recycling containers will make recycling and waste disposal more efficient and cost effective here at Augsburg College. Please place your trash and recycling in the appropriate containers at the trash/recycling station nearest to your classroom or meeting room on the way out of the building.

The initiative is being implemented by Custodial Services and Facilities Management in the hopes that it will increase consciousness of the recycling program and prevent commingling of trash and recyclable materials. This practice has been successful at other colleges like University of Minnesota in Bemidji and also at Macalester College.

Please take care to place items in the correct receptacle (for information on what can be recycled, visit http://www.augsburg.edu/green/rrr.html). Thank you for your cooperation and contribution to Augsburg's efforts to promote green practices.

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Deb Hutchison's Last Day

Deb Hutchison is retiring from her post in the English Department Office. We will miss her. Deb has been our right arm, providing unflagging support and unflappable problem-solving, not to mention good humor and some treats. Though Deb wants to slip away quietly, you are welcome to come to Memorial 221A today, her last day, between 8:30 and 2 pm to say goodbye. We wish her well.

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Fall Play Auditions 11/13, 11/14

Fall Main Stage Theater Auditions, September 13 - 14

Casting: 5 – 6 female roles; 6-7 male roles

The Augsburg Theater Arts Department will hold auditions for its fall main stage production, The Learned Ladies, by Molière, directed by Martha Johnson. Auditions will be held in the Tjornhom-Nelson Theater, Foss Center, Monday, September 13 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. and Tuesday, September 14 from 3:30-6:00. An audition sign-up sheet will be posted on the Tjornhom-Nelson Theater door in the Atrium of the Foss Center.

All Augsburg students are welcome to audition! Copies of the play The Learned Ladies have been placed on reserve in the library under Martha Johnson's name. Audition monologues are located and at the Theater department desk in Foss Center, and they are also available in the Theater Arts Department public folder on Augnet. Please choose and carefully prepare 2 monologues from those provided. It is recommended that you read the entire play in order to have a sense of the tone of the piece and the nature of the characters.

Call-back auditions will be held Wednesday, September 15, from 6:30-10:00 p.m. Rehearsals will begin September 20, and performance dates are November 5 – 14.

Description of The Learned Ladies:

The great comic genius Molière wrote The Learned Ladies in 1672, a year before his death, and it is considered one of his mature masterpieces. In this play a family is thrown into disarray when the mother becomes fixated on an intellectual charlatan. The play evolves into a hilarious portrayal of the intellectual perversions sometimes seen in the world of academia (and elsewhere), when genuine quest for knowledge is replaced by pseudo-intellectuality, pretention, inflated self-importance, and power-mongering. "This sophisticated satire sparkles with wit, ridicules hypocrisy and…reveals that human folly has not diminished during the past three hundred years."

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First Vocatio Chapel and Lunch on 9/15

You are invited to the 2010-2011 Vocatio Chapel Series at Augsburg College
Healthy Vocations: Mind, Body, and Spirit

Campus Ministry and the Center for Faith and Learning (ACFL), present a line-up of local leaders who will share how they promote healthy minds, bodies, and/or spirits and their personal faith journeys. Over the course of the year, we will hear leaders in the community discuss their call to work as doctors, coaches, advocates, researchers, teachers, and other forms of health-promoters. The entire community is invited to share how faith influences health and how health influences faith! Come with others from your classes, floor, department, or campus organization to explore healthy vocations together.

The kick-off to this chapel series will be Wed., September 15, 10:20-10:40 a.m. Our guest speaker will be Augsburg and StepUP alum, Melissa Toavs, Career Probation Officer for Hennepin County. Melissa graduated in 2004 with a BA in Sociology and a concentration in crime and community. Come hear her story of working for restorative justice, alternative sentencing, and hope for a healthy future.

*Students, faculty, and staff are invited to a lunch conversation with Melissa Toavs from 11:00am-12:00pm. To attend the lunch, RSVP by Sept. 13 to Lonna Field (fieldl@augsburg.edu or x1467)

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"Views from Abroad" Exhibition Reception - Tuesday

"Views from Abroad"
September 6 - 17

Reception: Tuesday, September 14, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Student Art Gallery, Christensen Center

Augsburg Abroad will be having a reception for their art exhibition "Views from Abroad." Food and refreshments will be provided. Come enjoy the art and learn about study abroad opportunities for students, staff and faculty.

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Michele Roulet's Senior Art Reception - Tomorrow

"Italy"
September 6 - 17

Michele Roulet's reception for her art exhibition "Italy" is this Friday, September 10, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. in the enclosed glass area adjacent to the Student Art Gallery, Christensen Center. Food and refreshments will be provided.

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Study Abroad Fair on Next Wednesday

Learn about more than 300 worldwide programs in over 80 countries, including Augsburg's own short-term/ faculty-led, Center for Global Education (CGE), International Partners (IP) and HECUA programs.

Enter to win a $25 gift card for Pizza Lucé.

You can:
+ fulfill requirements abroad
+ use financial aid for study abroad
+ receive study abroad scholarships
+ go abroad for any term, from 2 weeks up to a full year
+ have one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of your life

Wednesday, September 15
12 noon to 4:00 pm, Christensen Center Lobby

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Trinity Congregation and Sundaes: Sunday @ 11:00

Trinity welcomes all students, faculty and staff to our Multicultural and Musically Rich worship every Sunday at 11:00 in Foss Center. Other activities include tutoring opportunities with new immigrants every weekday afternoon. Ice Cream Sundaes this Sunday after church--come one, come all.

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McAteer to go to White House on Monday

http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/9/8/whoc090810.aspx?path=whockey

MINNEAPOLIS -- Augsburg College women's hockey head coach Michelle McAteer will be heading to the White House on Monday, as part of a recognition ceremony for her alma mater's national championship squad.

McAteer, who spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Minnesota-Duluth before accepting the Augsburg head coaching job in April, will be honored in Washington, D.C., along with the rest of the Bulldog women's hockey team, which claimed the NCAA Division I national title in 2010.

The Bulldogs will be among numerous Division I national title teams from the past school year that will be honored by President Obama at the White House on Monday. According to a story in Wednesday's Duluth News-Tribune, the Bulldogs will fly to Washington, D.C., at 6 a.m. on Monday and be honored at the White House at 4 p.m. The team will return to Minnesota on Tuesday morning. The story noted that 20 members of the team, along with coaches and the school's chancellor, will be in attendance at the ceremony. It's the fifth time UMD's women's hockey team has appeared at the White House.

McAteer spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach with Minnesota-Duluth, helping to lead the team to the NCAA Division I Frozen Four in both seasons, as well as this season's national championship, the fifth in school history. She also served as a graduate assistant coach at UMD during the 2003-05 seasons.

Prior to returning to UMD, McAteer spent the 2007-08 season as an assistant coach with the Vaughn Flames, a Canadian Women's Hockey League team in Toronto, and served as an assistant coach at Harvard University from 2005-07. The Crimson advanced to the NCAA national tournament in both of her seasons at Harvard.

A native of Scarborough, Ontario, McAteer was a member of UMD teams that won national titles in 2001, 2002 and 2003, while also winning Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) regular-season titles in 2000 and 2003, and WCHA playoff titles in 2000, 2001 and 2003.

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Looking for a Dutch Language Tutor

I'm looking for a tutor to assist me in learning Dutch, starting at a beginning/conversational level. One to two times a week would be ideal, and the ability to meet on campus would be a plus as well. The scheduling is extremely flexible. This would be a great job for a novice tutor looking for experience teaching language, or someone hoping to pick up quick money for an hour or two of "work" a week!

If you're interested, email brightk@augsburg.edu with your availability & rates.

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Need a Minifridge?

I have a medium-size, excellent condition mini fridge that I'm trying to sell. I can get you it to you if you're on campus or could meet me at the Minneapolis campus. I'm looking to get $40 (or best offer) for it. Please email me at k_gubash@yahoo.com if you're interested.

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