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Life of the Mind – October 22-23

Next year's Life of the Mind Retreat will be held October 22-23, and focus on Global Poverty and Social Inequity. It will be organized by Katie Welle, Steve Peacock, Sarah Myers, Orv Gingerich, and Kevin Bowman. Please mark your calendar. Reservations will be taken in September.

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Faculty Fulbright Scholars – Apply by August 1

The application deadline for 2012-2013 Faculty Fulbright U.S. Scholar Competition is August 1, 2011. Visit www.cies.org/ for detailed award announcements, application and guidelines.

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Staff Development Series

Using Your Strengths

The next session in the Staff Development Series will focus on strengths. If you have not participated in the strengths-based workshop, please contact Sarah Hedstrom to get a copy of the book, so you can complete StrengthFinder before the next session.

The remaining schedule for Summer 2011 is:

July 12, 2011, 3:00-4:30, OGC 114 – Summer Group Dialogues – Using Your Strengths (Jessica Fox-Wilson and Velma Lashbrook)
August 2, 2011, 3:00-4:30, OGC 200 – Summer Group Dialogues (Jessica Fox-Wilson)

Hosts and Organizers: Jessica Fox-Wilson and TBD

Please rsvp to hedstrom@augsburg.edu to ensure proper arrangements are made for each session and that your place is reserved.

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Volunteer for Campus Kitchen This Summer

Campus Kitchen is looking for volunteers to help with cooking classes, delivery shifts, youth cooking/gardening classes, and site monitoring.

COOKING CLASSES
To create the meals we serve Mon-Fri, we will prepare the meals Sun-Thurs evenings, 7-9 pm in the Christensen Center kitchen.
- Each evening Augsburg students will lead a class cooking a different meal (menus will be available online soon)
- Meals will be simple, affordable, use vegetables that are in season, healthy, and if all goes right, delicious
- All the participants will enjoy the meal at the end and can take 1-2 meals home with them along with the recipe

DELIVERY SHIFTS
Thursdays 11-1 pm - Peace House homeless shelter (free lunch)
Thursdays 2-3 pm - Prepare senior meals
Thursdays 3-6 pm - Deliver senior meals door to door
Fridays (1st and 3rd) 5:30-7:30 pm - Banquet at Ebenezer apartment (free dinner)
Sundays (some) 6-9 pm - Secure Waiting homeless shelter

EDUCATION CLASSES
We will be teaching kids cooking and gardening at the Brian Coyle Community Center Mon-Thu 12-4 pm, and we are looking for consistent volunteers (can be created as an education internship) to assist with those. Those helping will enjoy a lunch and snack with the kids.

SITE MONITORING
We are setting up a system for monitoring the eight sites we serve at (we are receiving federal funds that require intense reporting). We are looking for 1-2 students who will be briefly trained as monitors, and can visit these sites to ensure correct reporting, and always enjoy a meal onsite.


To sign up for cooking classes and delivery shifts, go to our calendar at www.tinyurl.com/ckpcalendar.
To learn more and sign up for other shifts, contact us at campuskitchen@augsburg.edu.  
You can also add us on facebook at www.facebook.com/augsburgcampuskitchen.

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Weekend College Senate for 2011-2012

This year, the Weekend College Student Senate initialed a comprehensive restructuring process. This restructuring process allowed the group to increase representation for all WEC students, by providing each academic division with representation that is proportionate to their major student population.

In the new structure, students are represented by an Executive Board of President, Vice President, Treasurer and Communication Coordinator, as well as 4 Professional Studies Senators, 1 Natural & Social Sciences Senator, 1 Fine Arts & Humanities Senator and 1 At-Large Senator.

This process culminated in the recent WEC student body elections. The results for the election are below:

President – Christine Smith
Vice President – Robert DeLoach
Treasurer – Boe Barlage
Communication Coordinator – Jessica Jacob

Professional Studies Senators –La Shawn Hankton, Kelsey Holberg, Greg Jacob, and Deanne Nelson
Natural & Social Sciences Senator – Brianna Diaz
Fine Arts & Humanities Senator – Kim Simmonds
At-Large Senator – Jennifer Weber

Congratulations to all of the new WEC Senate members!

Thank you to outgoing officers, including President Thomas Gouras, Vice President Jennifer Weber, Treasurer Aeillyne Yburan, Senator Christopher King, and Senator John Boyd.

If you would like to keep track of WEC Senate news, please like our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/wecsenate

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Dining Services

Nabo Weekly Specials:

Wednesday: Shaved Ham Stacker
Thursday: Sloppy Joe Sandwich
Friday: Chicken Caesar Wrap

Served with a fountain soda for $5.00


Cafeteria (conferences & camps):
Monday-Friday
Breakfast 7:00am-8:30am
Lunch 11:00am-1:00pm (also open to faculty & staff)
Dinner 4:30pm-6:00pm

These hours can be altered depending on the needs and size of the event.

Coopers Coffee Shop:
Monday-Friday
7:45am-1:00pm
WEC Saturday 7:30am-3:00pm (Subject to being closed)
WEC Sunday CLOSED
Non WEC Saturday & Sunday CLOSED

Nabo Cafe:

Monday-Friday
10:00am-2:00pm
WEC Friday 5:00pm-7:00pm
WEC Saturday 9:00am-2:00pm
WEC Sunday 11:00am-4:00pm
Non WEC Saturday & Sunday CLOSED

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Short Student Survey on the "Fishbowl"

We are looking to enhance the seating in the Christensen Center coffee shop area, including the glassed-in lounge space sometimes referred to as the "Fishbowl." We'd like student input and hope students will complete this short survey.

http://augsburg.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_25X52hTlvfVdkkA

Thank you for your time!

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Update on Dining Services

Here is an update on dining services for the Summer and the exciting changes for the upcoming school year. Faculty/staff lunches will start back up in the middle of June and they will be available when the Summer camps are being served breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the Commons. The cost for faculty/Staff meals will continue to be discounted for this fiscal year. Breakfast and Lunch will be $4.75 per meal and Dinner will be $7.40. There is a new menu with more exciting choices in Nabo. A'viands has combined the popular items from the former A-Club Grille along with the best selling items from Nabo as well as some brand new items to create a large menu to choose from. This new menu will officially be implemented for the start of the school year. Look for some specials off the new menu in Nabo this Summer as A'viands practices and prepares. The preparation for the construction has started for the Einstein Bagel Bros. (soon to be formally Coopers Coffee shop). There will be two weeks of construction in late June to mid July for the soft opening in mid August and a grand opening at the start of the school year. There will be times during construction where items may be limited. Einstein's will also offer catering in conjunction with the regular offerings on the A'viands catering menu. The college is excited about the partnership A'viands has entered into with Einstein's and is excited for the opening.

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Free Puppet Show Across from Augsburg June 20

Summer Family Fun for all ages.
Open Eye Figure Theatre Presents
The Amazing Cow Boat!!
Monday June 20th @ 7 pm
Hosted by:
Vicki K, Karen G, Mutual Management Co
Bedlam Theatre & Augsburg College

Behind 1910 S. 7th Street
(In the common area between 6th &7th Streets and 19th & 20th Aves)

We'll pass the hat for the performers!
Bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on!

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Augsburg Instructors Earn Mediator Award

Congratulations to Marilyn McKnight and Steve Erickson, who received the Distinguished Mediator Award at the annual conference of the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation last month, where they also delivered the keynote address. The award was given in recognition of "their pioneering and sustained work in establishing the field of divorce mediation and their soulful dedication in helping families" over the last 35 years. Marilyn and Steve co-teach Constructive Conflict Resolution in the Augsburg Master of Arts in Leadership program. Marilyn is also an instructor in the College's education department. To learn more about their expertise, see their website: www.ericksonmediation.com. Steve and Marilyn are also Augsburg alumni.

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Nice 1-person Tent to Sell, Looking for 3-4 Person

We already have a minivan, now it's time for a bigger tent.

I'm looking to buy a nice, 3-4 person tent to use with my family this summer. We would like something with a good view (lots of screen) and a solid rain fly.

I'd like to part with this nice Big Agnes 1 person back country tent - http://www.amazon.com/Big-Agnes-Seedhouse-SL-One-Person/dp/accessories/B001AZ7MDC. It's brand new and a great design. Make an offer if interested.

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Do You Have These Things?

Augsburg's neighbor, the East African Women's Center (located just 3 blocks from campus) is in need of several items to better serve newly arrived refugee moms and small children!

The center is looking for:

A Vacuum Cleaner!, Pack-n-plays, High Chairs, Stroller
Sturdy, Pre-School Height Table, Bread Maker, Measuring Cups and Measuring Spoons, plastic plates, mugs, glasses cups (non-breakable), knives
mini-fridge, Legos or duplos,Brio trains (we've got the tracks!)
play dough, toys where you put shapes in holes (for toddlers), large plastic cars or trucks, a doll house and furniture, baby dolls (preferably not white), tinker toys, lincoln logs, matchbox cars and trucks, plastic farm animals, felt shapes for felt boards, stencils for young children
rubber stamps,washable paints, paint smocks, ESL teaching books
ABC boarder for classroom
laminating sheets, AA/AAA batteries, clean 3 ring binders, computer paper
a printer (high usage), towels (gently used),diapers
Clothing sizes 3T- Children's Small (ages 3-7), Children's shoes (GENTLY used)

Items can be left on the Sabo Center porch at 624-21st Avenue
Joanna L. Flaten
East African Women's Center
612.332.8402 center
509.430.9120 cell
jflaten001@luthersem.edu
http://eawc.insourcemedia.com

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