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On Being and Becoming a Professor... AugStories

Come and hear from three of your esteemed colleagues about their journey in becoming a faculty member in our Augsburg College community. You will hear from faculty in different departments and in different phases of their careers. The panel will feature Darcey Engen from Theater, Nishesh Chalise from Social Work, and Dean Seal from Religion. Coffee will be served.

Monday, November 2, from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in OGC 100.

Sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning.

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TOMORROW - CTL Session on Supporting Your Students

It's the middle of the semester and there are a few students in your courses whom you feel are "slipping away." It's not because they're not bright enough...rather they aren't handing in work, they seem puzzled about what assignments are due and when, and seem to be at high risk for failing. We've all had these sorts of situations. What do you do?

This panel and informal roundtable discussion "Intervention Strategies to Help Struggling Students" will give participants an opportunity to discuss and problem-solve how to provoke greater motivation and attention to detail in your lagging students. The panel will feature Christopher McMaster from Education and Debbie Shapiro from the Academic Skills Office.

Thursday, October 29, 3:40-4:40 p.m., OGC 100.

Cookies and refreshments will be served!

Sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning.

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TODAY: Adjunct Gathering, 12:45-2 p.m. in Lindell 202

Come meet other adjunct faculty members and share your experiences in adjunct teaching! What's working for you? What resources would you like to learn about from other adjuncts? Are there ways you can collaborate?

Stop by Lindell 202 TODAY between 12:45-2 p.m. for light refreshment and conversations with your colleagues.

Jointly sponsored by CTL and the Adjunct Task Force.

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Proposals for Honors Elective Courses Due Friday

Got a great idea for an Honors elective? We're looking for interesting courses that might be offered multiple times, on a regular basis -- no need to worry about one-off course design. A fully developed syllabus is not needed at this point. We just need some really good ideas.

Please submit your concept proposals, for possible offering in the fall 2016 or spring 2017, by this Friday, October 30, to: honors@augsburg.edu

More details and the application form are available at:
https://drive.google.com/a/augsburg.edu/file/d/0BwuXMZjl66sBWXkzdVpONTBpMDg/view?usp=sharing

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Recent Rash of Toner Scam Calls

There are several unscrupulous businesses out there who attempt to sell you outrageously priced printer/copier toner/ink over the phone. They may start by asking you what is the model or ID# of the copier or printer near your desk. They may say they have extra stock of the toner you need or the price is set to increase soon. They may offer to ship you a toner on trial. Regardless of what they say, don't give them any information. All you need to know is that toner is included in the maintenance agreement for the machines on campus, and you get toner for your copier or printer by calling the Copy Center at extension 1054. You will never need to purchase toner for machines in your area. A quick way to ditch these "toner phoners" is to tell them you will transfer them to the person in the organization who purchases toner - they will hang up before you can transfer them!

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Help Us Recruit The 2016 Orientation Leaders

Attention Augsburg Faculty and Staff! Do you know of a student who you believe has what it takes to be a 2016 Orientation Leader!? If yes, please encourage them to apply! The application can be found on the Human Resources website (augsburg.interviewexchange.com) and needs to be submitted by Tuesday, November 10 by noon. Any questions or concerns can be directed to orientat@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1100. Thank you in advance for sending your best our way!

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Web Wednesday Hangout

The Web Wednesday Hangout, from 3-4 p.m. via Google Hangout, is for any website content manager -- or anyone else at the college -- who wants to discuss website issues. Bring your questions about working with WordPress, HTML, web media integration, or writing and layout for the web.

Join the Hangout or view the full calendar by visiting my website: http://engage.augsburg.edu/mannj/meetings/

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Let's Do This

AugsburgGIVES 2016 is up and running, but only until Friday, October 30th. Now is the time to make our gifts to Community Shares of Minnesota and/or The Greater Twin Cities United Way. All Faculty and Staff should have gotten an email from me on Monday to show you how easy it is to give. Every gift, no matter the size, can make a difference. Thank you for being generous! Questions? ext. 1525

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Food Service Menu and Specials

Wednesday, October 28th

Commons
Market Place is serving Grilled Quinoa Cakes, Slow Roasted Cajun Turkey Breast, Boiled Baby Reds with Basil, And Fresh Green Beans with Sea Salt.
Vege is serving Southeast Asian Zucchini Coconut Curry, Quinoa with Lemon and Peas, Marinated Grilled Italian Tofu, and Roasted Garlic Cremini Mushrooms with Thyme and Caramelized Onions. At Lunch Today There is a PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST! Enjoy the new beverages in The Commons; Crystal Light, Flavored Waters, Orange Crush, Cherry Pepsi, and Diet Dr. Pepper.

Einstein's
French Toast bagel is slated to go away soon, get yours before they are gone. And, of course, it is PUMPKIN season, get your pumpkin bagel now!

Nabo
The Special of the Day is a Turkey Burger with Fries and a Drink. Try several new items including Build Your Own Salad, Black Eye on tap Cold Press and Nitro, Kind bars, Pop-Tarts, and more!

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Food Service Hours

Wednesday, October 28

Commons
Open from 7:30am-7:00pm.

Einstein's
Open from 7:30am-9:00pm, with the Late Night Menu starting at 7:00pm.

Nabo
Open from 7:30am-8:00pm.

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Halloween Dinner at Ebenezer Tower This Friday

Bring your costumes to a special Friday night dinner with Campus Kitchen! Our regular senior banquet will be extra festive this week, and we'd love to have more Augsburg folks to help serve the meal and visit with seniors. Email Allyson at campuskitchen@augsburg.edu if you're interested in providing low-key entertainment for the evening (music, stories, a dramatic reading of The Raven, etc).

Meet in the kitchen at 3:30pm to help prep Halloween food or 5:15pm to ride over to Ebenezer. We'll be back to campus by 7:30pm. Sign up here to join us: http://www.augsburg.edu/campuskitchen/schedule/volunteer/signup/

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Free Tickets to Play at Penumbra Theatre

Hmong Women Together would like to invite those who are interested and available October 29-31, to attend the Lao-Hmong Friendship/Hmong-Lao Friendship play at Penumbra Theater. We have received funding that helps to sponsor at least 10 tickets to this play. The play spans 3 days and you can decide which day is best for you. The play runs from 7:30-9:00pm, with a post show Q&A from 9:00-10:00pm. Those who are interested should email Pa-Loo Lor at lorp@augsburg.edu ASAP. Those interested will randomly be selected and contacted. Please only email if you are certain you can come.

Here is the Facebook page for more information,
https://www.facebook.com/events/1150816424947807/

Play Description:
"Playwrights, performing artists, foodies, and real-life BFFs May Lee-Yang and Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay explore the connections between themselves and their people through stories, humor, hot Asian men, and popular culture in this new theatrical work.

The Hmong and Lao are Southeast Asian peoples who came to the U.S. as refugees in the 1970s following the Secret War in Laos. Both groups are from Laos. Both are refugees. There are even some shared things like language and music. Yet, Hmong and Lao people rarely talk and work with one another.

This dynamic inspired Hmong-American playwright May Lee-Yang and Lao-American playwright Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay to create a piece that builds cross-cultural understanding, connections, and friendships through humor, joy, and shared stories. Collaboratively researched, written, and performed, Hmong-Lao Friendship Play / Lao-Hmong Friendship Play explores cultural relativism between the Hmong and the Lao, both in Laos and in Minnesota. This show is a treasure trove of stories, such as the one about two fathers who were fighters - one a Captain in the CIA-trained Chao Fa (guerilla fighters), the other a buffalo-riding gangster, or the story of two patriarchs - one a provincial governor and the other a provincial governor of the Hmong version of Laos, or the story about what a Lao girl had to do to become an honorary Hmong.

Hmong-Lao Friendship Play / Lao-Hmong Friendship Play is a one-of-a-kind performance you won't want to miss!"

Production Description:
"Lazy Hmong Woman Productions' aim is to create change by providing space and tools to nurture Hmong women's and girls' voices through storytelling and theater and increase and diversify the number of Hmong Minnesotans who access the arts. Our work is grounded in giving marginalized voices the opportunities to tell their own story, in their words, on their own terms. Additionally, our projects are catalysts to create cross-cultural conversations.

Each new production is an opportunity to think about: how do we make theater authentically inclusive? How do we make theater that is physically, financially, and culturally accessible? How do we develop audiences within communities that have had little exposure to theater? How do we use theater as a vehicle to talk about hard issues within and beyond the play?"

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Historical Trauma: Staff/Faculty Workshop

The CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND COUNSELING AND AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENT SERVICES INVITE YOU TO A FACULTY/STAFF WORKSHOP
'HISTORICAL TRAUMA: CARRYING THE BONES OF OUR ANCESTORS'

NOVEMBER 5, 2015
1:30-3:00 PM
MARSHALL ROOM, CHRISTENSEN CENTER
SNACKS WILL BE PROVIDED

CO-SPONSORING/SUPPORTING DEPARTMENTS:
AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
SOCIAL WORK
EDUCATION
HISTORY

Please RSVP for the workshop to Jennifer Simon, simonj@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1144 to help us get an accurate count for documents and snacks. Thanks!

Antony Stately (bio below) will be joining us here at Augsburg on November 5th at 11:00 AM in the Chapel as our guest for the Center for Wellness and Counseling Convocation. In addition to the convocation, Antony has agreed to give a workshop presentation focused on "Historical Trauma: Carrying the Bones of Our Ancestors". The workshop will be from 1:30-3 PM in the Marshall Room.

BIOGRAPHY
Antony Stately, PhD (Ojibwe/Oneida) received his Ph.D. in psychology from Alliant International University/California School of Professional Psychology in 1997, with an emphasis in Clinical, Multicultural and Community Psychology.

His most important job is being Dad to his twin sons, Chaske and Cuauhtli. When he is not performing those duties, he is the Director of Behavioral Health at the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community. Previously, he was a research scientist with Indigenous Wellness Research Institute at University of Washington-Seattle, where he served as Director for the HONOR Project, a five-year six-city health survey of American Indian Two-Spirit men and women, and Co-Investigator for Healthy Hearts Across Generations, a 5-year intervention development grant addressing cardiovascular disease prevention with Northwestern Washington tribe. He has also worked as Director of Client Services at AIDS Project Los Angeles, and was the inaugural Program Director of Seven Generations Child and Family Counseling Services, a community mental health clinic serving American Indian children and families, which he helped to establish in Los Angeles, CA.

As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Stately has provided clinical services to child victims of abuse, persistently mentally ill, runaway and homeless youth, and the HIV/AIDS impacted community. Dr. Stately has been a consultant to international, national, and local agencies, including the Pan-American Health Organization, US-Mexico Border Health Association, National Native American AIDS Prevention Center, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, and LA County Department of Health Services Office of AIDS Program and Policy. He has taught in clinical graduate programs at UW School of Social Work, Antioch University-Seattle, Phillips Graduate Institute, CSPP/Alliant University-Los Angeles, Antioch University-Los Angeles, and Loyola Marymount University. He currently serves a Board Member for the Indigenous People Task Force and as Advisory Cabinet Member for the George Family Foundation's Catalyst Initiative, both in Minneapolis, MN.

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Heritage Day - November 12

Augsburg's Heritage Day is a joint venture between the Christensen Center for Vocation, the Religion Department, and the Office of the President. Join us on Thursday, November 12 from 4:45 p.m. - 7 p.m. in the Marshall room.

This year's Heritage Day will feature presentations by two Augsburg alumnae:
1) Amanda (Mandy) Brobst-Renaud, '04, is a Ph.D. Candidate in Biblical Studies at Baylor University and will present, "Bricks and Mortar of the Epistle of Straw: Luther and James on Faith and Works."

2) Katharine (Kate) S. Mahon, '06, is a Ph.D. Candidate in Liturgical Studies, Liturgical History at the University of Notre Dame. Mahon's presentation will be, "Formation of Worship in Martin Luther's Small Catechism."

Please RSVP by November 5 through the CCV website - http://www.augsburg.edu/ccv/events/heritageday/

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Focused Conversation on Student Success: TODAY

The second Focused Conversation on student success is TODAY, Wednesday, Oct. 28, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Marshall Room.

Yesterday's session was recorded, and the link to the replay will be posted on the All Hands page for those unable to participate in either of the live sessions.

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Fashion, Poetry, and Food TONIGHT

Presented by:
Sisterhood Boutique -- and run by two Augsburg alums and immigrant youth of Cedar-Riverside (in conjunction with the Brian Coyle Community Center)

Food, Fashion and Poetry
Wednesday, October 28
6:30pm doors open, show from 7:00pm-8:00pm
Sateren Auditorium
Free of charge

For more information go to https://www.facebook.com/SisterhoodBoutique

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All Saints Day in Chapel on Monday, November 2

Please join us on Monday, 11/2, at 10:40am for All Saint's Day Festival Worship. We will remember with thanksgiving those who have died this past year during the "Litany of the Saints."

You may send the names of those people in your life who have died and who you would like to be named and remembered during chapel to Amy Hanson in the Campus Ministry Office at hansona2@augsburg.edu or fill out a form located by the Hoversten Chapel entrance in Foss Center -- please submit by Friday, October 30.

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Breaking the Silence Workshop - Thursday

All students are invited to attend a workshop on Thursday 10/29/15 on "Breaking the Silence - Navigating the Maze of Higher Education" presented by Dr. Buffy Smith. The workshop will be from 12:30 - 1:30 pm in OGC 100 and will be preceded with lunch from 12-12:30 pm.

Dr. Smith, a professor at the University of St. Thomas, will engage students to learn the concepts of hidden curriculum and social capital and how they play a role in their academic success as well as learn practical strategies for creating and sustaining effective mentoring relationships.

This presentation is sponsored by the Center for Wellness and Counseling, the Pan-Afrikan Center, and the Pan-Afrikan Student Union.

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Poet A. E. Stallings at St. Olaf, 2 Nov.

Poetry Reading and Book Signing
Monday, November 2 | 7:00-8:30 PM
Viking Theater, Buntrock Commons, St. Olaf College
1510 St. Olaf Avenue, Northfield, MN 55407

Award-winning poet and translator A.E. Stallings will give a public reading on Monday November 2, as part of a two-day visit to St. Olaf College. She has published three collections of poetry: Archaic Smile (1999), which won the Richard Wilbur Award; Hapax (2000); and Olives (2012), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She translated Lucretius' philosophical epic, The Nature of Things, for Penguin Classics, and is currently completing a translation of Hesiod's Works and Days for the same series.

Trained as a classicist, and a resident of Athens, Greece since 1999, Stallings often draws on the well of Greek and Roman mythology and art in her poems, weaving the threads of these ancient stories into contemporary contexts. She is known for her command of verse form, and her ability to bring freshness and idiom to traditional structures such as the sonnet or villanelle. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and the Macarthur Foundations. The latter praised her “technical dexterity and graceful fusion of content and form,” noting that Stallings is revealing the timelessness of poetic expression and antiquity's relevance for today.”

Her work is widely anthologized, and has been included in the Best American Poetry in 1994, 2000, and 2015, and in the Best of the Best American Poetry (ed. Robert Pinsky). Her poems appear in The Atlantic Monthly, The Beloit Poetry Review, The Dark Horse, The New Yorker, Poetry , Poetry Magazine (Chicago), Poetry Review, and the TLS, among others. She also contributes essays and reviews to the American Scholar, Parnassus, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Review, the TLS, and the Yale Review.

At St. Olaf, Stallings will speak to classes in Classics and English, and meet informally with students and faculty interested in translation and poetry. Her reading and book signing on Monday night is free and open to the public. Stallings' visit is generously funded by the English and Classics Department, the Great Conversation Program, and the Leraas Fund of St. Olaf College.

Contact: Karen Marsalek, English Department, St. Olaf College, X3203, marsalek@stolaf.edu

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Business Open Advising Sessions

Business students who need to get their advising hold removed for spring 2016 registration will need to come to one of the Business Open Advising Sessions.

Please come to the 3rd floor of Memorial Hall during the open advising sessions from October 26-November 6. You will need:
1) Major/Minor Completion Checklist
2) Graduation Audit
3) List of classes you are intending to take in spring term.

The Open Advising days/times was sent to your email inbox!

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Daily Chapel at 10:40am: Rev. Dr. Mark Tranvik

Our chapel series, "All Alone in the Reformation," continues at 10:40am with Rev. Dr. Mark Tranvik, "Grace Alone." Musicians: Bill Capman, guitar; Laura Simms, violin; and Nyssa Capman, flute.

Thursday, 10/29, 11:30am: Rev. Dr. Hans Wiersma, "Glory to God Alone." Musicians: The Chapel Brass III: Michael Caerwyn, trombone; Lonna Field, tuba; Carol Hendrickson, french horn; Paul Grauer, trumpet; and Ray Makeever, trumpet.

Friday, 10/30, 10:40am: Dr. Lois Malcolm, Professor of Systematic Theology, Luther Seminary, "Christ Alone." The Riverside Singers, under the direction of Nancy Grundahl.

We gather in Hoversten Chapel, Foss Center -- Everyone is welcome!

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