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Webinar, Jan 10, 5 pm: Five Ways to Make Course Content More Accessible to Everyone

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Five Ways to Make Course Content More Accessible to Everyone Right From the Start

Description: From video content to Moodle articles, this presentation will review 5 ways to make course content more accessible for students on Moodle and in class. We know that creating course content takes a lot of time and effort, and we want to discuss ways that embedding accessibility from the start can benefit students and save faculty time in the future.

Presenter: Lauren Radomski, M.A., OTR/L, Assistive Technology & Accommodations Specialist, CLASS/Disability Resources

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Peace Scholars Applications Due Feb 1, 2024

submitted by hermansb@augsburg.edu

Augsburg will be selecting TWO amazing students to participate in a 6-week program in Norway this summer from June 17 – August 2, 2024 (https://peacescholars.wordpress.com/).

Selected Peace Scholars receive full tuition and room and board while studying peace related initiatives during the Peace Seminar, and enroll in courses at the University of Oslo International Summer School. Each Peace Scholar can earn up to 10 credits that can be applied towards their degree at Augsburg.

Are YOU interested? Sophomores and juniors with strong academic records are eligible to apply, including international students. We urge staff and faculty to share this opportunity with their students as well.

Applications are due no later than FEB 1, 2024 at 12 pm.

Contact the Study Abroad and Away office should you have questions (lenze@augsburg.edu).

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General Announcements

Online Survey – Chance to Win $100 Gift Card

submitted by fleigr@augsburg.edu

Hello Auggies! I am a graduate student seeking participants for a research study. I am exploring how one’s ability to recognize and regulate their own and others’ emotions may relate to feelings of depression and social disconnect. Participation in this study will involve completing a series of behavioral health inventories and a demographic screener that will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. These inventories will ask if you have experienced symptoms of depression or loneliness and ask how intensely you experience your everyday emotions. Following completion of these inventories, participants will complete a test online that will walk participants through a variety of different tasks, such as recognition of facial expressions and implied social meanings. This test will take approximately 45 minutes to complete. All participation in this study is done online from the comfort of your own home. Students are invited to participate in this study if you: (1) are between the ages of 18 and 31; (2) have not been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, schizophrenia, or a personality disorder; (3) have not experienced an interpersonally traumatic life event (i.e., assault by another human being); and (4) are not currently experiencing a major health concern (i.e., life threatening illness/injury or significant transplant/removal surgery).

For your time, participants will be entered into a random lottery drawing for one of three $100 Amazon gift cards!

If you have any questions or concerns regarding participation in this study, please contact me at fleigr@augsburg.edu. If you would like to participate in this study, please click the link below. You will be taken to a secure, online survey where you will be presented with a consent form followed by the demographic screener and brief inventories. Upon completion of these, you will be shown the link to the final assessment.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7LPN7K3
Thank you!

Event Announcements

Warm Your Heart: Volunteer with Middle Schoolers This Winter

submitted by froehlic@augsburg.edu

The Minnesota Urban Debate League is a program of Augsburg University. We provide academic competitive debate programming to more than 1,300 students in the Twin Cities!

In January-March, we will be hosting weeknight debate tournaments for middle school students. Middle school debaters learn important skills like critical thinking, deep listening, note-taking, argumentation, and public speaking in debate – but they also have fun, make friends, and take pride in representing their school!

You can help make it happen by becoming a volunteer debate judge. No debate experience? No problem. We’ll train you. Judges listen carefully to students debating, weigh the arguments, choose a winner, and provide feedback for improvement.

Finish your service hours before the semester heats up!

Sign up here:

https://mnudl.augsburg.edu/volunteer-opportunities/

Jan 11 Webinar – Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Christian and Muslim Resources for Restorative Justice

submitted by truesmit@augsburg.edu

Join Professor Najeeba Syeed and the Oxford Interfaith Forum for this free, virtual event. Professor Syeed will speak on Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Christian and Muslim Resources for Restorative Justice.

Date: January 11, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm, CST
Place: Zoom
Cost: Free, but you must register to receive the zoom link

For more information and to register, click here: https://www.oxfordinterfaithforum.org/thematic-international-interfaith-reading-groups/peacebuilding-in-interfaith-contexts/interfaith-just-peacemaking-christian-and-muslim-resources-for-restorative-justice/

Dinner Hosting: New International Students – January 11, 2024

submitted by baterdg@augsburg.edu

Between 8-10 new international students will soon join us for Spring Semester 2024!

As we collaboratively welcome this group, we plan for different experiences including a dinner potentially hosted by you—our faculty and staff members—in your home. These events create a space for our new students to connect directly with members of our community, AND the dinner provides an opportunity for you to learn about the incoming international students and their goals at Augsburg. It’s really a win-win situation!

Here are the details:
Date: Thursday, January 11, 2024
Time: Pick up at 5 p.m. with a return to campus around 7 p.m. — Pick up at Einstein’s!

Yes – Sign me up

Fosdick Lecture on Preaching, February 29 at 10 a.m.

submitted by dames@augsburg.edu

You are invited to the 7th Fosdick Lecture on Preaching where Rev. Barbara Lundblad will address the topic “Shall the Christian Nationalists Win?” Join us at 10:00 am in Hoversten Chapel (livestream is also available). One of Harry Emerson Fosdick’s most well-known sermons is “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” He preached that sermon in 1922: would he preach it today? Would we? What are the loudest Christian voices in the United States? Let’s reclaim our voices for the sake of the Gospel!

Barbara Lundblad is the Joe R. Engle Professor of Preaching Emerita at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She received a B.A. in English from Augustana College, an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School, and a D.D. from Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. She is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and served 17 years as a parish pastor in New York City. She has been a campus pastor at Lehman College and New York University and has taught homiletics at several schools, including Yale Divinity School, Princeton Theological Seminary, Hebrew Union College, and in the D.Min. program of the Association of Chicago Theological Schools. She also served as president of the Academy of Homiletics and in 2014 the Academy honored her with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
She is the author of two books, Transforming the Stone: Preaching through Resistance to Change (2001) and Marking Time: Preaching Biblical Stories in Present Tense (2007) which grew out of the Beecher Lectures she delivered at Yale Divinity School. In 2010 she received the YDS Alumni Award for Excellence in Theological Education. She is currently the editor of “Preaching Helps,” a regular feature of the journal Currents in Theology and Mission.
Following the lecture, please stay for chapel at 11:30 am to hear Rev. Lundblad preach.
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