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Mindful Dialogues - Community

Thursday, December 9, 4:30-6:00, OGC111
Faculty and Staff Conversation with Reception

Mindful Dialogues is a series designed to collectively examine issues relevant to higher education and help build a sense of community. During the spring, we are examining Peter Bloc's Community: The Structure of Belonging. Ron Petrich will facilitate the dialogues. If you are interested in participating and can commit to participating in at least two of the scheduled spring sessions, rsvp to Sarah Hedstrom and pick up a copy of the book from CTL to begin reading over the holidays.

The spring schedule is as follows:

January 20, 4:30-6:00, OGC 111 – Shifting Our Thinking from Independence to Interdependence - Intro and Part 1
February 10, 4:30-6:00, OGC 111 – Creating a Community Where Each of Us Belong - Ch. 8-11
March 24, 4:30-6:00, OGC 111 –Conversations for Structuring Belonging - Ch. 12-More
April 14, 4:30-6:00, Augsburg House – Creating the Communities We Want

Please rsvp to hedstrom@augsburg.edu

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Peace Scholar Applications

Students are invited to apply for the Peace Prize Forum Scholars program. Two students from Augsburg will be selected to participate in the program with eight scholars from the four other colleges in The Peace Prize Forum consortium. The scholars will participate in a six-week summer school program at the University of Oslo, Norway, designed to deepen their understanding of issues related to peace, justice, democracy, and human rights. The scholars will participate in the Peace Prize Forum and will be advocates for the annual forum and other peace activities on the Augsburg campus.
Criteria and Application:
• Strong academic record with a minimum GPA of 3.0.
• 1,000 word essay articulating the applicant’s interest in peace issues, evidence of commitment to peace study and/or activism, and goals for being a peace scholar.
• Open to full-time first year, sophomore or junior undergraduate students.
• Two letters of recommendation—one from a faculty member and another from either a faculty or staff member.
• Applications are due January 20, 2011.
For a complete description of the program, send an e-mail to Assistant Vice President for International Programs Orv Gingerich gingerio@augsburg.edu

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Powerful Conversations on NSSE

December 16, 2010, OGC 111,12:00-1:15pm
Active and Collaborative Learning (Velma Lashbrook)

Augsburg College uses the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) to learn more about how our students perceive their college experience. Student engagement is strongly related to both student success and retention. This series of conversations is designed to help faculty and staff understand how well we engage students, explore how we can leverage our strengths to have a more significant impact, and examine our most important opportunities for improvement. Over the year, we will look at overall results and then look more closely at each of the five factors measured by NSSE. Every academic department should have a representative attend these sessions.

Light refreshments will be served.
Please rsvp to hedstrom@augsburg.edu

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Late Night Lindell Library Hours

Lindell Library will be open until 1 a.m. through Friday, Dec. 10. Come for research assistance, technology advice, or to do some serious studying. We’re expecting you!
On Saturday, December 11, the library will follow the WEC schedule: 7:30 am – 6:00 pm.
Hours are always available from the "Hours" link on the Lindell Library web site: www.augsburg.edu/library
Online library resources are also available 24/7 on that web site.

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Meet "mark." A Leading Brand in Beauty and Fashion

Meet mark. a leading brand in beauty and fashion
also meet mark. mentor Erica Wolf who will be at the Augsburg book store on Monday, December 6th from 11:00-1:00 to answer any questions you may have.
goodie bags given to the first 5 people
Learn how you can become a mark. rep for only $20.00 and get over $60.00 in product for FREE

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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 AuBri Weatherspoon, CAO Student Administrative Assistant, via email at cao@augsburg.edu as soon as possible!

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Announcing the 2011 Orientation Leaders

Campus Activities and Orientation is pleased to announce that the following students have been selected as the 2011 Orientation Team:

Jeb Bates
Cory Booker
Tamba Brima
Jasa Brockel
Anya Cleaver
Casey Collins
Michael Fetting
Sally Fifield
Ellese Ford
Darius Gray
Celia Hernandez-Payan
Janelle Holte
Christopher Kopp
Kacie Lucchini
Elisabeth Moy
Daniel Negron
Rose Nguyen
Jakkee Phillips
Alexander Rhees
Amineh Safi
Tyler Salone
Julie Vo
Chelsey Waala
Hannah Youngquist

If you see these students around campus please congratulate them!

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Auggies Superfan Shirts For Sale

The Augsburg Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) will be selling its "Auggie Superfan" t-shirts in the Christensen Center on Thursday and Friday of this week!

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Making Tuition Payments Online

Are your parents tired of sending tuition payments through the mail? Give them online access to your Augsburg student account to make those tuition payments AND view your account balance. Learn how to by stopping by our table in Christensen Center this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. We'll be able to give you automatic access on the spot! For those of you who give one of your parents access while stopping by will be entered into a drawing to win a $25 gift card to Target. Your parents will thank you! Questions? Give us a call, 612-330-1046.

Take care,
Office of Student Financial Services

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Phillips Scholarship

The Phillips Scholars Program is administered by the Minnesota Private College Fund in partnership with the financial aid offices of 16 private colleges and universities. The program is funded by the Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation which recognizes and rewards private college students who strive to create a better life for those with unmet needs.

Selection criteria includes:
2.75+ GPA
Must be a sophomore in the 2010-2011 academic year
Demonstrate current financial need
Committed to designing and implementing your own community service project

Scholarship total including stipend is $16,400
Junior Year Scholarship $6,000
Senior Year Scholarship $6,000
Summer 2011 Stipend $4,000
Project Resource Funding $400

There will be two informational sessions to learn more about the Phillips Scholarship program.
Tuesday, December 7 at 12 pm – 1 pm in OGC 100
Thursday, December 9 at 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm in Marshall Room

To obtain the application and for more information please contact Jenny Yang at yangj@augsburg.edu or x1294 in the Financial Aid Office.

Applications MUST BE SUBMITTED to the Financial Aid Office in the Enrollment Center by FEBRUARY 11, 2011 by 4 pm. Please put ATTN: Jenny Yang.

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Auditions: Schola Goliardi Madrigal Choir, Dec. 7

Schola Goliardi is a new madrigal group that will perform for the first time at Mardi Gras Madrigals, the medieval feast happening on March 8 in Hoversten Chapel. Jordan Sramek of the Rose Ensemble will direct the group. Auditions will be held in Hoversten Chapel next Tuesday, December 7, at 3:30 PM.

Please bring one piece to be sung a cappella: a hymn, a folk song, or a piece of classical music (no pop songs, please). The rest of the audition will be vocalizing (with a piano) and some sight-singing.

To audition, please sign up on the sheet outside the choir room, or contact Phil Adamo for more information: adamo@augsburg.edu.

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Budgeting in a Tough Student Org Economy - 12/7

CAO welcomes ALL student leaders to Budgets and Budgeting in a Tough Student Org Economy, the fifth and last installment in the Student Leadership Series for the Fall semester. The goal of this series is to strengthen the awareness, leadership, management, and organizational skills of student leaders around a myriad of different topics.

This session will focus on strategies for budgeting, including but not limited to, how to lay out clear, organized budgets; what goes into creating a budget; how to project future spending; and finally, how to work with a more limited budget. This session will be especially helpful to student organizations which either (1) are already commissioned and will need to submit an annual budget request to Day Student Government or (2) are applying for commissioned status for the first time.

Ann Garvey, Vice President for Student Affairs, will facilitate this workshop on Tuesday, December 7 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Oren Gateway 100.

Please remember, commissioned student organizations are required to send at least one representative to no less than two workshops per semester. Chartered student organizations are required to send at least one representative to no less than one workshop per semester.

Additionally, these workshops are for all student leaders on campus. So if you are not part of a formal organization, feel free to attend.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Soup, Gender, Sexuality - The History of Sexuality

Tuesday, December 7
12pm - 1pm
Century Room

This month's Soup, Gender & Sexuality welcomes Professor Doug Green from English, who will talk on "The History of Sexuality: Past and Possibility". As always, free soup and bread from St. Martin's Table will be served (for the last time, as they will be closing!). All are welcome!

Contact Mike Grewe at grewe@augsburg.edu for questions.

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Thru Another's Lens - Wednesday, Dec. 8

The Luther Hall/Oren Gateway Center (LOGC) ResLife Staff and the Department of Residence Life is continuing its safe dialogue series for community members on issues of human diversity. The overarching goals of this series are to help people understand each other across difference as well as inspire all to take action for positive social change.

The kick off to this series occurred on Wednesday, November 3 at 6:30 p.m. in Oren Gateway 100. This first session looked to develop a common conceptual understanding of oppression dynamics, broadly, allowing the series to take single-issue focus for the rest of the academic year. Now, each session will focus on a particular social identity category while also considering how various oppression dynamics intersect (e.g., class, disability/nondisability, ethnicity, gender, race, religious & spiritual identity, sexual orientation).

This second session in the series will take place on Wednesday, December 8 at 6:30 p.m. in Oren Gateway 100 and will focus on class, classism, and ways to take action against classism in everyday life.

So, if you want to join a discussion where you will leave with some tangible takeaways that you can apply, then come join us!

If you have any questions, please contact Will O'Berry at oberry@augsburg.edu or a member of the LOGC ResLife Staff.

Free sunglasses as well as dessert will be provided for attendees!

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Pay It Forward - All the way to Washington, D.C.

Looking for a way to make an impact? Like travel, service, making friends and t-shirts with witty slogans? The Pay It Forward Tour hosted by Students Today Leaders Forever (STLF) may be the trip for you!
The Pay It Forward Tour (PIF) is a multi-day, multi-city alternative spring break experience that engages students in service, leadership, travel and service in a new city each day, learning about social issues, building lasting relationships, and making a commitment to continued action when they return home. All STLF College Pay It Forward Tours travel to six cities across the country over the course of nine days over spring break. Each Tour consists of up to 40 students. It will be a spring break you will always remember.
The FIRST EVER Augsburg College PIF Tour will take place this Spring Break 2011, from March 11 - March 19. We will be going to Washington, D.C. by way of 5 additional exciting cities including Kalamazoo, MI and Philadelphia, PA! The cost of the Tour is $450, which covers all travel, lodging, two t-shirts, 1 or 2 meals per day, and even some tourism. There is is also some financial aid available.
Registration is open now at http://stlf.net/chapters/augsburg/events/augsburg-college-tour
STLF is an official 501(c)(3) non-profit based out of Minneapolis, MN. It was formed in 2003 by 4 college Freshman at the University of Minnesota looking for a way for our generation to make a positive impact on the world. To date, 240 PIF Tours have traveled the country with 9,482 participants volunteering over 114,000 hours of service.
For more information, visit stlf.net or email augsburg@stlf.net

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Phillips Scholarship Informational Meeting

Are you a sophomore that needs scholarship money? Do you want to make a difference and change lives? If so, come learn about the Phillips Scholarship and how you can earn scholarship money and at the same make a difference in your community.

There will be two informational sessions to learn more about the Phillips Scholarship program.
Tuesday, December 7 at 12 pm – 1 pm in OGC 100
Thursday, December 9 at 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm in Marshall Room

To obtain the application and for more information please contact Jenny Yang at yangj@augsburg.edu or x1294 in the Financial Aid Office.

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Julie Struck's Senior Art Reception - Tomorrow

"From Where I Stand"
Julie Struck

December 1 - 8, 2010
Student Art Gallery, Christensen Center

Julie Struck will have a reception for her senior art show on Tuesday, December 7, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Food and refreshments provided.

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Crafty Auggie Craft Fair - Dec. 10

Stop in to Christensen Center this Friday from 11-2 to buy some handmade crafts from your talented Auggie friends. Jewelry, bags, artwork, and more!

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December 8 Vocatio Chapel and Lunch

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

On Wed, Dec. 8, 10:20AM, our guest will be the Rev. Andrea DeGroot-Nesdahl. She serves as coordinator for the ELCA Malaria Campaign which raises awareness and funds for prevention and treatment of malaria. Rev. DeGroot-Nesdahl was among the first 25 women ordained by the American Lutheran Church and served as Bishop of the South Dakota Synod/ELCA for twelve years. Please join us for this inspiring chapel as we hear Rev. Andrea's journey to promote healthy minds, bodies, and spirits.

ALSO during this Vocatio Chapel:
* Special Music by Agape (Dave Scherer), www.hiphopoutreach.com
* a display and resources about Malaria work will also be available in Foss Center

Students, faculty, and staff are invited to a lunch conversation with Rev. Andrea DeGroot-Nesdahl from 11:00am-12:00pm. To attend the lunch, RSVP by Dec. 6 to Lonna Field (fieldl@augsburg.edu or x1467)

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Holiday Gathering

Please join us for a Women's Studies / Women's Resource Center end-of-semester holiday gathering on Friday, Dec. 10, from 2-5 pm in the Women's Resource Center (207 Sverdrup). Holiday treats and good conversation will be in abundance.

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Auggie Athletics Update

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

Friday, Dec. 3:
Men's Hockey -- Augsburg 6, St. John's 3
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/12/3/mhoc120310.aspx?path=mhockey

Women's Hockey -- Augsburg 3, St. Benedict 3 (OT)
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/12/3/whoc120310.aspx?path=whockey


Saturday, Dec. 4:
Wrestling -- Augsburg at MSU Moorhead Dragon Open
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/12/4/wres120410.aspx

Women's Swimming -- Augsburg at St. Thomas Invitational
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/12/4/swim120410.aspx?path=wswim

Women's Basketball -- Carleton 77, Augsburg 67
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/12/4/wbb120410.aspx?path=wbball

Men's Hockey -- Augsburg 4, St. John's 2
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/12/4/mhoc120410.aspx?path=mhockey

Men's Basketball -- Carleton 56, Augsburg 52
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/12/4/mbb120410.aspx?path=mbball

Women's Hockey -- St. Benedict 1, Augsburg 0
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/12/4/whoc120410.aspx?path=whockey


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

Monday, Dec. 6:
Men's Basketball -- Augsburg vs. St. Thomas, Si Melby Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Women's Basketball -- Augsburg at St. Thomas, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 8:
Wrestling -- Augsburg at Minnesota State Moorhead, 7 p.m.
Women's Basketball -- Augsburg vs. Hamline, Si Melby Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Men's Basketball -- Augsburg at Hamline, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 11:
Wrestling -- Augsburg at St. Cloud State Open, 9 a.m.
Wrestling (WT) -- Augsburg at Wartburg (Iowa) Dick Walker Invitational, 9 a.m.
Women's Basketball -- Augsburg at Macalester, 1 p.m.

Saturday, Dec 18:
Men's Basketball -- Augsburg at Bethany Lutheran, 3 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 29:
Wrestling -- Augsburg at Citrus Open Tournament, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

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Wicker Loveseat For Sale

For sale Wicker Loveseat, with cushions and pillows $75. Please email kuross@augsburg.edu
Here is a link to a picture:
http://s115.photobucket.com/albums/n309/Kathleen_K/Wicker%20Loveseat/?action=view&current=WickerSettee.jpg

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