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Applications for Interfaith Scholars Due Next Wednesday

submitted by truesmit@augsburg.edu

The Interfaith Scholars program is a yearlong course and service learning opportunity taught by the Interfaith Institute’s Executive Director and Professor of Religion, Najeeba Syeed.

Interfaith Scholars explore the religious diversity of the Augsburg student body, the wider Twin Cities community, and the United States by learning from guest speakers from religious communities, business professionals, and other leaders across various sectors. Participants will gain leadership skills by learning and practicing how to converse respectfully with others about what they believe, why it matters, and how it propels us to service in the world.

Students with any religious or spiritual worldview as well as students without a connection to a religious tradition are encouraged to apply.

Applications for the 2026-27 student cohort are now open.
Applications are due on Wednesday, March 11.

UPDATE: The Interfaith Scholars course now fulfills the Augsburg Experience requirement!

Learn More or Apply

General Announcements

Win an Amazon Gift Card – Participate in Research: Tinder Use and Mental Health Outcomes

submitted by bloyere@augsburg.edu

My name is Evan Bloyer, and I am a graduate student in the Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology program here at Augsburg University. My clinical research project is understanding how Tinder use impacts mental health outcomes, particularly self-esteem and body esteem. I have received Augsburg University’s IRB approval and am able to collect data from eligible participants. To participate, please click on the link below. Email me at bloyere@augsburg.edu for any questions or concerns. If you participate, you will be eligible for a raffle for one of four $25 Amazon gift cards.

Mental Health Survey

TODAY – Janice Dames Shares Her Story of Thriving

submitted by myers@augsburg.edu

Janice Dames, Administrative Assistant for Campus Ministry will be retiring soon. She will be sharing her story of thriving followed by a reception in her honor. Please come to celebrate and thank Janice with the rest of our community.

HOW WE THRIVE: STORIES OF WHAT IT MEANS TO THRIVE – TOGETHER.
Janice Dames
Wednesday March 4, 2026
12:00 p.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Hoversten Chapel

Students: Apply to Be a 2026-27 Christensen Scholar

submitted by myers@augsburg.edu

We are now taking applications for the 2026-2027 cohort of Christensen Scholars. Apply at the link below by Friday March 27, 2026.

Christensen Scholars spend a year in community exploring questions of faith, identity, and vocation through a Christian theological lens. Students should be open to engaging seriously and openly with these topics, but it is not a requirement that a student be an active member of a faith community. Applicants need only be open to sharing about and listening to a diverse set of perspectives within the Christian tradition.

BENEFITS:
• Develop a deeper understanding of your own vocation in a caring community.
• Create a deeper sense of belonging among your peers.
• Learn new ways to live out your faith on a daily basis within the community.
• Experience a remote mountain retreat center in the middle of winter.
• Receive a small scholarship and a $500.00 stipend to cover expenses.
• All-expenses-paid winter pilgrimage in mid-January.
• 4 upper division Religion credits (can be used toward your major or minor)

NOTE: RLN 100 is a prerequisite for this year-long course. We will gather every other Thursday evening (6pm-8pm), both Fall and Spring semesters. Additionally, the pilgrimage during the end of your winter break in January 2027 is mandatory. Students admitted are expected to have good attendance and participation in the sessions and on the trip in order to earn course credit.

Christensen Scholars program is co-led by Dr. Jeremy Myers (myers@ausburg.edu) from the Christensen Center for Vocation and Rev. John Schwehn (schwehn@augsburg.edu) from Campus Ministry.

Click Here to Learn More and Apply

Twin Cities Stories – Share Yours in a Community Archive with the Mixed Blood Theater

submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu

The Mixed Blood Theater is gathering a people’s history of this moment and need your help. What has this experience been like for you? What have you seen? What are you doing? How are you feeling?

It might be a true personal recollection.
It might be an interview with someone in your community.
It might be a poem or picture or piece of flash fiction that captures a feeling or a snapshot of what is happening right now in our communities.
It doesn’t need to be perfect, it just needs to come from you.

To be transparent, as with everything right now, this project is emergent—we’ll learn and adjust. As story tellers, our intention is to capture and preserve the stories of this moment, as people want them told. We expect to post these stories as part of a gallery of responses to create a tapestry of experiences of the now. We are guided by the creative commons licensing (freely sharing the work) that others can use to create, study, make, remember.

Please add your story and invite others to share theirs using this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffi0YyKCG7fCZFY3OitscYP1p2Qo0ZhJYERF-LcCXjzbGtCg/viewform

Student Poetry Prize

submitted by starckl@augsburg.edu

Submit to Augsburg’s John R. Mitchell / Academy of American Poets Prize
Deadline for Submission: 22 March 2026

This competition, endowed by Jean Mitchell in honor of the late John Mitchell, former English Department faculty member and poet, is for the best group of three poems composed by a current Augsburg undergraduate or graduate student. The award includes a $100 prize ($50 each, if split between two winners), a certificate from the Academy of American Poets, a one-year membership to the Academy of American Poets, and publication on poets.org.

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
• A set of three well-proofread poems must be sent from your Augsburg email address as an attachment to starckl@augsburg.edu by 22 March 2026.
• Writers should put Mitchell Prize in the subject line.
• The email must contain the titles of the poems, and the poet’s full name, pronouns, status (undergrad or grad), phone number, and mailing/permanent address.
• Winners will be announced by Augsburg University in early April.
• In the summer, the Academy will send a letter of congratulations and a certificate to each winner or honorable mention recipient. If two winners are chosen, the prize money will be divided between them.

We’re excited to read your work!

New Staff Positions This Week (6)

submitted by hr@augsburg.edu

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

02/27/2026: Graduate Assistant, Men’s Soccer
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000111903492-graduate-assistant-men-s-soccer
02/27/2026: Graduate Assistant, Cross Country
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000111903670-graduate-assistant-cross-country
02/27/2026: Graduate Assistant, Track and Field
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000111903615-graduate-assistant-track-and-field
02/27/2026: Graduate Assistant, Football
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000111900781-graduate-assistant-football
02/27/2026: Graduate Assistant, Women’s Lacrosse
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000111901631-graduate-assistant-women-s-lacrosse
02/27/2026: Graduate Assistant, Women’s Swimming and Diving
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000111901945-graduate-assistant-women-s-swimming-and-diving

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Event Announcements

April – Miles That Matter 5k Supporting the International Institute of MN

submitted by olsenkat@augsburg.edu

Join the PA Program and support the International Institute of Minnesota Saturday April 25th at 10 am for a 5k walk/run to benefit the institution and our PA program! Every participant gets a t-shirt and the first 70 to sign up get a free water bottle!

The event is at Bde Maka Ska and anyone can join, so invite your friends and family. Registration ends April 10th.

Learn more and sign up below! Registration is $35, students are $25, and kids 12 and under are free!

Register today!

Chrislock Memorial History Lecture and Know Your Rights – Say Them Loud – March 9, 7-9 pm

submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu

We are pleased to extend an invitation to join us in welcoming to campus Dr. Christopher P. Lehman, Professor of History in the Department of Ethnic and Women’s Studies at St. Cloud State University, author of the 2020 Minnesota Book Award winner, Slavery’s Reach and It Took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom. Lehman will discuss his most recent book about Eliza Winston, an enslaved woman who fought for and won her freedom in Minnesota in 1860.

In honor of Winston’s courage to claim her rights, we will follow the lecture with a Know Your Rights! Say Them Loud! Training led by the Mixed Blood Theater. You’ll get the chance to practice saying your rights with professional actors, building the confidence to do so boldly, if necessary.

Monday, March 9th, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Marshall Room, Christensen Center

To learn more about the life of Eliza Winston and slavery in Minnesota, you can visit the exhibit that Dr. Lehman helped curate at the Hennepin History Museum, Winston: A Woman’s Fight for Freedom in Minnesota (https://hennepinhistory.org/avada_portfolio/winston/). The exhibit is up until October of 2027.

Greenhouse First Friday – March 6

submitted by vaneck@augsburg.edu

The Augsburg Biology Department’s rooftop greenhouse grows an appreciation for and deeper understanding of the plants of our planet. The greenhouse is open to the Augsburg campus community on the first Friday of every month this semester, from noon to 3pm. The Augsburg community is invited to come see what we’ve got growing on, enjoy the tropical atmosphere and marvel at hundreds of plant species from all over the world.

The next First Friday is this week, March 6, 12pm—3pm. The greenhouse is located on the 4th floor of the Hagfors Center.

Stay updated on greenhouse activities by following us on Instagram!

Join Us for a Conversation About Eco-Spirituality

submitted by truesmit@augsburg.edu

Do you feel a deep spiritual connection to nature? Eco-Spirituality is a worldview and practice that views nature as sacred and celebrates the interconnection between nature and humanity. Join us for an exploration of Eco- Spirituality leading up to the Interfaith Symposium: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves (March 25).

What: Conversation on Eco-Spirituality
When: Thursday, March 12, 6:30-7:30 pm
Where: OGC100
Who: Anyone from the Augsburg community is welcome

Special guest:
Kieran Morris is a farmer, guide, historian, martial arts teacher, woodsman and community organizer. He has called the forests and waters of Mni Sota Makoce home all his life.

QIPOC DIY Tie Dye General Meeting

submitted by kelleyf@augsburg.edu

Hello QIPOC family! I hope this event finds you well. We are hosting a DIY tie-dye event next Wednesday, March 11th, from 4-6pm in the East Commons lounge. We are excited to share a newly handcrafted QIPOC logo with you, as well as to see you all dye your own merch made from 100% cotton, super comfy t-shirts. We will have a variety of sizes to choose from.

Also, our first elections are coming up. We will have a tabling session, and our email will be open to receive any inquiries. Stay posted for some amazing events we have coming up this spring!

QIPOC Email: qipoc.org@augsburg.edu
Instagram: @augsburg.qipoc

RSVP Here

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Disabled Student Looking for Student PCA

submitted by dipaolaz@augsburg.edu

Hi, my name is Zander. I am a Senior, and I am disabled and in a wheelchair. I am looking for a backup PCA. I have a PCA come every day to help me with certain tasks in my dorm room. You would come when my main PCA needs a day off or can’t make it that day for different reasons. Some of the tasks would entail refilling water bottles, refilling humidifiers, and making a bed. Expect this to take 15 or 30 minutes out of your day. I will work with your schedule. You will schedule a time to come whenever it fits your schedule on a day my PCA can’t come. If you are interested in helping me out and scheduling an interview, contact me at (612)430-3233 or dipaolaz@augsburg.edu.