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Public Safety and Facilities Announcements

Parking Permit Sales Date and Prices 2023-24

submitted by ierbaub@augsburg.edu

Augsburg users will be able to buy a parking permit based on their academic or faculty/staff status on the following dates:

Tuesday, August 1, 2023
– Faculty and staff (both full-time and part-time)
– Adult undergraduate and graduate students
– Seniors

Wednesday, August 2, 2023
– Juniors

Thursday, August 3, 2023
– Sophomores

Friday, August 4, 2023
– First-year commuter students

PERMIT PRICES

Parking permit prices have remained the same as last year:

Student Resident: $195 semester/$390 year
Student Commuter: $179/$358
AU/Graduate: $61/$121
Adjunct Faculty or Part-Time Staff (below 0.5 FTE): $105/$210
Full-Time Faculty and Staff: $252/$504
Luther Underground: $470/$1,400
OGC Underground: $505/$1,515

Augsburg is moving to a virtual parking permit system with camera enforcement this fall. We expect this change to improve the parking experience on campus and enhance public safety. Please continue to watch A-mail for more details.

Parking on Campus

Teaching and Learning

Call for Proposals: CTL 2023 Back-to-School Workshops

submitted by reederm@augsburg.edu

The Center for Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce that our 2023 Back-to-School Workshops will take place Wednesday, August 23 – Thursday, August 24, 2023, 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. We invite proposals for professional development sessions from all interested faculty and staff. August workshop sessions typically focus on areas of teaching and learning, including but not limited to: course design and planning, community building, instructional pedagogies, assessment practices, technology enhanced learning practices, student mentoring, and/ or other topics relevant to beginning of the year and term.
Sessions are generally 60 minutes, although two sessions may be combined for up to a 3-hour session if preferred.

For full consideration, please submit proposals no later than Friday, July 28th, 2023. Presenters will be notified by August 4th.

We hope you will consider sharing your best practices with our Augsburg teaching community.

If you have any questions about this form or the CTL Back-to-School Workshops, please contact the CTL Director, Rachel Lloyd at lloydr@augsburg.edu.

Call for Proposals: CTL 2023 Back-to-School Workshops

URGO Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science Research Presentations

submitted by premob@augsburg.edu

Please join us for the URGO Natural Science, Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science student researchers’ final presentations of their summer work. Their presentations reflect the culmination of hours of effort on a range of unique and compelling topics.

Presentations will run from 9 am to 4 pm on Wednesday, July 26 and Thursday July 27 in Hagfors 150 BC. All are welcome to attend.

URGO Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science Research Presentations

submitted by wentzelm@augsburg.edu

Please join us for the URGO Natural Science, Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science student researchers’ final presentations of their summer work. Their presentations reflect the culmination of hours of effort on a range of unique and compelling topics.

Presentations will run from 9 am to 2:30 pm on Wednesday, July 26 and Thursday July 27 in Hagfors 150 BC. All are welcome to attend.
Presentation Schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NM5lsdtx-MlpxhBtsQdHmwbZ8sDFgWgK7sVzVmx8evY/edit?usp=sharing

General Announcements

Send-Off for Sophia Park

submitted by vachta@augsburg.edu

Please join us Thursday July 27th at 11AM for a send-off celebration for Sophia Park. Sophia is leaving her position as Augsburg University Payroll and Benefits Manager. Her last day at Augsburg will be Friday July 28th. Please join us to wish her well and to recognize the great work Sophia has done at Augsburg!

Location TBD

Sophia has been with Augsburg since 2020 and has made countless behind-the-scenes improvements to our payroll processes and benefits administration. Through her role as Payroll and Benefits Manager Sophia has interacted with nearly every employee on campus to provide support on accessing benefits, leaves of absence, and payroll questions with compassion and wisdom. She has provided leadership on audits and compliance requirements with outstanding diligence and attention to detail. Sophia has been a valued collaborator on the Human Resources team – she is smart, dependable, approachable, and a true professional. We wish Sophia well in her future endeavors, – she will certainly be missed!

New Staff Positions This Week (6)

submitted by hr@augsburg.edu

The following Augsburg Staff positions were posted within the past 7 days:

07/20/2023: PA Administrative Assistant II
https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/743999919732763-pa-administrative-assistant-ii
07/20/2023: Community Operations Specialist
https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/743999919687023-community-operations-specialist
07/18/2023: Graduate Assistant Football Coach
https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/743999919268233-graduate-assistant-football-coach
07/17/2023: Public Safety Officer
https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/743999919007438-public-safety-officer
07/17/2023: Academic Advisor I
https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/743999919007133-academic-advisor-i
07/14/2023: Associate Director of Admissions and PSEO
https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/743999918754863-associate-director-of-admissions-and-pseo

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New Staff Position: PA Administrative Assistant II

submitted by hr@augsburg.edu

GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES: Perform daily general office and administrative duties needed to support the Department of PA Studies Administration.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Department Operations:

– Provides administrative support for both the academic and clinical phase of the PA program.
– Coordinates and manages multiple calendars & schedules.
– Supports logistical details for faculty and lecturers (i.e. parking, expense reimbursements, lecture materials)
– Performs logistics support, data entry, and electronic file organization
– Coordinates and executes numerous process and procedures under the required timelines.
– Supports faculty and staff with course and program related printing requests.
– Assists with email communications, answering phones, and general follow up correspondence.
– Maintains social media accounts and updates department website as needed.
– Maintain alumni database.

Academic & Clinical Phase Support:

– Performs data entry of student records, course information, grades, and clinical sites.
– Schedule guest lecturers, graders and simulated patients in conjunction with faculty oversight.
– Provides support to faculty and students (i.e. prepare and process exam support activities, enter quiz and grade data, coordinate Lecture visits, classroom and lab activities, etc).
– Manage the Academic & Clinical Phase calendars.
– Maintains various excel spreadsheets and Google Docs supporting both Academic and Clinical phases of the program (i.e. student rosters, advisor assignments, clinical sites, etc.).
– Maintains the Electronic Course book folders, generates reports as needed.
– Helps support the admissions and advising process in conjunction with faculty and staff.
– Provides administrative support on Moodle LMS and Examsoft software applications.

ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES OF WORK PERFORMED:

– Other duties as apparent or assigned by supervisor(s).

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New Student Positions This Week (2)

submitted by hr@augsburg.edu

The following Augsburg Student positions were posted within the past 7 days:

07/20/2023: STEM Student Peer Mentorship Coordinator, 2023-24 Academic Year
https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/743999919686308-stem-student-peer-mentorship-coordinator-2023-24-academic-year
07/17/2023: Athletic Concessions Student Attendant, 2023-24 Academic Year
https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/743999919002058-athletic-concessions-student-attendant-2023-24-academic-year

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Event Announcements

2023 McNair Summer Research Presentations – TODAY

submitted by crombie@augsburg.edu

One component of the TRIO McNair Scholars Program is a 10-week summer research project. Each year students work with a faculty mentor on a specific topic, culminating in a final paper and presentation. At the end of the month, students will present their research at the 2023 National McNair Conference at UCLA. If you would like the opportunity to see these presentations at Augsburg, please join us on Monday, July 24, 9:00am-12:30pm in SCI 123. This event is open to all students, faculty and staff.

Individual presentations are 10-12 minutes long. There will be time at the end of each group for questions and evaluations.

Group 1 (SSHA): 9:00 – 9:35am

Drew Gross, Communication Studies
Dr. Kristen Chamberlain
Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the Communication Discipline: An Extended Literature Review

Edward Stockard Jr., Social Work
Dr. Kao Nou Moua
How does toxic masculinity shape identity among BIPOC young adults?

Group 2 (SSHA): 10:05 – 11:10am

Logan Bradley, Psychology
Drs. Ben Denkinger & Henry Yoon
Effects of Inverted vs. Upright Faces on the N170 Event-related Potential Face Effect

Hafsa Hassan, Psychology
Drs. Ben Denkinger & Henry Yoon
Effectuating the P3 Brain Response with Passive Counting Task

Alex Hernandez Olivera, Clinical Psychology
Drs. Ben Denkinger & Henry Yoon
False Memories in Polygraphs

Cynthia Faber, Psychology & Religion
Drs. Ben Denkinger & Henry Yoon
How Polygraphs are Used to Induce False Confessions

Group 3 (NSMSCS & SSHA): 11:20am – 12:05pm

Ifrah Edow, Biology
Dr. Matthew Beckman
An Analysis of Daphnia magna Locomotion Rescued from Post-Manganese Toxicity

Theo Addotte-Wayo, Biology
Dr. Matthew Beckman
Studies of Gene Expression Across Multiple Stages of Eye Development in Daphnia Magna

Leeroy Doe, Political Science & Communication Studies
Dr. Sarah Combellick-Bidney
The Capacity for Care: Transcending the personal sphere – A comparative study of mutual aid efforts during the Covid-19 and HIV pandemic

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Hang in the Neighborhood, Learn Some Stuff, Make Some Pals – August 3 and 10, 10:30-Noon

submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu

Join us for tours that dive into the larger history of the region and ground us in neighborhoods around Augsburg, in the past and present. We’ll begin with some introductions, a short presentation and tour the neighborhood. We’ll be in the neighborhood for one hour and we’ll walk/roll for a little over one mile.

These tours, led by Jenean Gilmer, Community Engaged Learning Program Manager in the Sabo Center, are for staff, faculty, community members and anyone else who would like to join! Participation will be limited to twenty people, please fill out the forms below to express your interest. There will be a similar tour during the Center for Teaching and Learning workshops as well.

Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood Tour
Thursday, August 3, 10:30-Noon
Please fill out this very short form if you’d like to join us: https://forms.gle/Rdgo6zVftMTMYqTB8

Seward Neighborhood Tour
Thursday, August 10, 10:30-Noon
Please fill out this very short form if you’d like to join us:
https://forms.gle/1FfgF9mjMr5cYMry9

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