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Back to School 2025: Save the Dates and Call for Proposals

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

The Center for Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce that our 2025 Back-to-School Workshops will take place Wednesday, August 27 and Thursday, August 28, 2025, 9 am to 4 pm. The morning of Thursday, August 28 will have a thematic focus on the integration of generative AI in higher education:

* 9 -10 am: Keynote address with Dr. John O’Brien, incoming president of the Augsburg Board of Regents, and president and CEO of EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education through technology innovation.
*10:15 -11:30 am: Actionable AI Faculty workshop time
* 11:30 to 12:30 pm: Lunch

We also 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 academic year. Sessions may be 60 minutes or 90 minutes.

For full consideration, please submit proposals no later than Friday, August 1, 2025, 5 pm. Presenters will be notified by August 8th.

Call for Proposals: BTS 2025

General Announcements

Library Service Slowdown: June 17–July 16

submitted by vanclev1@augsburg.edu

As part of Augsburg’s transition to the PALS library consortium, we will be migrating to a new and improved library system before and after the 4th of July weekend. During this time, some services will be unavailable or significantly slower:

Library Search (Catalog): Unavailable

“Journals by Title” Search Feature: Unavailable

Interlibrary Loan (ILL): Significantly slower turnaround

Direct Database Access: Unaffected

Please contact Stewart Van Cleve (vanclev1@augsburg.edu) with any questions. Thank you for your patience as we work to improve the library!

July 13 Postage Increase

submitted by longj@augsburg.edu

Taking effect July 13, 2024 First Class mail prices are increasing. This does include the First-Class Mail Forever stamp is going from 73 cents to 78 cents. We do have First-Class, Additional ounce stamps and International Forever stamps in Shipping/Receiving if you want to make sure you have some before the price increase.
July 2025 First-Class Mail Prices
Product Current Prices New Prices
Letters (1 ounce) 73 cents 78 cents
Letters (metered 1 ounce) 69 cents 74 cents
Additional Ounce Stamp 28 cents 29 cents
Domestic Postcards 56 cents 62 cents
International Postcards $1.65 $1.70
International Letter (1 ounce) $1.65 $1.70

July 2025 Postage Price Changes (USPS Page)

Vote for New Staff Senators for 2025–26

submitted by cliftonk@augsburg.edu

Hello!

Please vote for who you would like to the new editions to the staff senate team!

The Augsburg University Staff Senate is a body of elected staff members who advocate on behalf of the staff, foster meaningful dialogue, and work to recognize and celebrate the impact of staff members on the University and community.

Staff Senators meet monthly to discuss events, staff/campus concerns. This year we hosted several staff wellness events and the annual staff appreciation.

You can also talk to current members which includes Emilie Lenz, Keri Clifton, Izzy Rankin, Hayley Selinski, and Elijah Owens. If you have any questions regarding voting or the process, please email staffsenate@augsburg.edu

Click Here to Vote for your Staff Senator(s)

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Roof Depot Updates and Call to Action

submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu

EPNI’s Board and Staff, along with community leaders from East Phillips and Little Earth, met with officials from the Minneapolis Department of Community Planning & Economic Development to ask for a fair price in updated terms of the purchase of agreement for the former Roof Depot site given the loss of $5.7 million in anticipated state funding.

EPNI asked the City to accept $10.2 million already secured as the final purchase price for the real estate (which is appraised at $3.7 million) rather than the original agreement which required $15.9 million to purchase the building. $10.2 million is a more-than-fair price to compensate the City for its original purchase of the site in 2016, and even repays a significant portion of the costs sunk into its failed, environmentally harmful plans for the property.

This morning, City officials assured representatives of East Phillips that they will not exercise the right to terminate the deal on July 1st – that they will take EPNI’s proposal to the Mayor’s Office to find a solution ahead of the September 15th closing date. Now more than ever, the City’s elected officials need to hear from you that East Phillips deserves follow-through, not setbacks. Please continue calling your Council Member and the Mayor, and request that they agree to sell to EPNI for a fair price.

Let your Minneapolis City Officials know that this $5.7 million burden which was supposed to be supported by the State should not fall on East Phillips.

Information and directions for contacting elected officials!

Event Announcements

Next Wednesday: SINKANE – Sudanese Afrofuturist Funk Rocker at the Cedar Cultural Center

submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu

Start: 6:00 PM / End: 8:00 PM / All Ages
Mixed Seated and Standing + Bring Your Own Chair

Concessions will be available for purchase from The Cedar, and food from local and neighbourhood restaurants will be available for purchase.

Sinkane fuses elements of krautrock, electronica, reggae, free jazz and funk rock with Sudanese pop to create music inspired by his experiences. Despite–or rather, because of–his unclassifiable sound, the City Slang signee is championed by a multitude of musical legends. Prior to embarking on his solo career, he worked with Eleanor Friedberger, Caribou, of Montreal, Born Ruffians, and Yeasayer as a session musician. As Band Leader and Music Director of the Atomic Bomb! He’s collaborated with rotating group members including David Byrne, Money Mark, Damon Albarn, Dev Hynes, Alexis Taylor, Amadou and Mariam, Jamie Lidell, Pharoah Sanders, Joshua Redman, among others.

Gallab’s music is his personal story, but it’s also everyone’s story. This truly universal approach leaves no room for irony or cynicism. Fueled by Gallab’s very heartbeat, it erupts into an ambitious, dazzling sound only conceivable by Sinkane.

RSVP and find more information at: https://www.thecedar.org/events/summer-at-the-cedar-sinkane

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