Augsburg University News and Announcements
submitted by hr@augsburg.edu
The following Augsburg Student positions were posted within the past 7 days:
04/27/2026: Student: Summer Central Services Customer Service Assistant 2026
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000123276139-student-summer-central-services-customer-service-assistant-2026
submitted by commencement@augsburg.edu
Important reminders for students participating in the commencement ceremony on May 7:
TICKETS
Monday, May 4, is the last day to claim tickets. Guests should print or download tickets before arriving at US Bank Stadium to avoid last-minute ticket issues. Every guest (including infants and children) needs their own ticket. Due to high demand, no extra tickets are available. If you need more than 15 tickets to accommodate your guests, please work with other students to utilize their extra tickets, or encourage your friends and family to access the live webcast.
GET READY FOR MAY 7
Day-of instructions for graduates are available on the commencement website. Guests should review the US Bank website for information about parking, accessibility, and more.
FIRST DESTINATION SURVEY
The Strommen Center for Meaningful Work invites graduating students to take a few minutes to complete the First Destination Survey. This short survey asks about your plans after graduation, whether you are starting a new job, heading to graduate school, or exploring other opportunities. Complete it by May 7 at 11:59 p.m. for a chance to win one of three $50 gift cards. Please use your Augsburg email address to access the survey and to be included in the raffle. Survey link: https://app.joinhandshake.com/first_destination_responses/new/03o5HhGoAoTioZUOJejlzd45Nnjjx0R2UwlXf1zaOBqA5-0FQNI-oQ
submitted by cliftonk@augsburg.edu
Staff Senate is bringing colleagues together by creating intimate opportunities to connect, collaborate, and discover the amazing work happening across our campus.
Here’s everything that’s coming up:
Family Scholars Open House (Memorial 331)
Wednesday, May 6 ⋅ 9:00 – 10:30am
Learn more about Family Scholars: https://www.augsburg.edu/augsburgfamilyscholars/
Staff Senate Brown Bag Lunch in the Cafeteria
Tuesday, May 12 ⋅ 12:00 – 1:00pm
End of Year Ice Cream Social
Thursday, May 21 ⋅ 3:00 – 4:30pm
Watch for more details regarding nominations and elections for next year.
submitted by velamcco@augsburg.edu
Members of the Augsburg Community,
You are invited to participate in a study focusing on the mental health impact of Operation Metro Surge, in which the Department of Homeland Security sent approximately 3000 ICE and Border Control agents to the Twin Cities beginning in December 2025 and officially lasting through mid-February of 2026.
Prof. James Vela-McConnell, in the Department of Sociology here at Augsburg, is conducting an anonymous survey that is intended to further document the impact of this event on our community and ourselves and you are invited to participate. This online survey should take approximately 30 minutes and can be completed at your convenience. At the end of the survey, you will have the opportunity to enter a raffle for one of six $50 gift cards or one of eight $25 gift. Alternatively, the raffle winners may choose to donate the value of their gift card to a local organization working to support immigrant residents of the Twin Cities metro.
To take the survey, check your emails for your invitation to participate or simply click on the link below for the flyer with the link & QR code.
Also, we are hoping to include as many residents of the Twin Cities area as possible in this research on the mental health impact of Operation Metro Surge. Please feel free forward the flyer and invite your local family, friends, neighbors, etc. to participate. In addition to the entire Augsburg community, anyone who lives and/or works in the Twin Cities metro region and is 18 years of age or older may participate.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu
The Cedar Riverside Youth Council voted on a resolution to start a petition to raise support to restore and improve the Brian Coyle Gym, which is the heart of the community.
Equipment over the last 15 years has either been removed and not replaced, is broken, and the gym has been left to fall apart because there was always a new recreation center on the horizon. The community can’t wait another minute and continue to let this deterioration continue. The youth and families deserve better.
The CR Youth Council has made these visuals to show what could be possible with $100,000 worth of funding. These improvements would last until some day in the distant future when the new recreation center is built. Everything in the design could be moved to the new facility with minimal costs.
Here is the petition: https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/restore-upgrade-the-brian-coyle-center-gym
submitted by hansonjl@augsburg.edu
Support your fellow students this Friday, May 1st!
Join us in Sateren Auditorium at 7pm for the annual Eyrie Film Festival!
The Eyrie Film Festival at Augsburg University is a space where emerging talent is nurtured and showcased. The festival features films and screenplays created by Augsburg students. Films are selected and judged on creative and technical merits with awards given in select categories.
Join the Story, Stage, and Screen department and enjoy a night of movies made by Auggies, for Auggies! Doors and red carpet at 6, screening starts at 7 PM with awards and a Q&A to follow. Reserve your tickets!
submitted by klawiter@augsburg.edu
Did you know Augsburg is home to a community garden with 65 individual plots for neighbors and 3 student-led communal plots? Does this intrigue you? Does environmental stewardship and radical inclusivity inspire you? Are you interested in learning more or participating? Then you should join the garden committee!!
We are currently looking for students, staff, faculty and community members to be a part of the garden committee to share inspiration, ideas and help make decisions that will shape the future of the garden. We meet once a month for about an hour and a half. For more information, please email Greta at klawiter@augsburg.edu
submitted by voravone@augsburg.edu
Join us for the StepUP Program Graduation & Celebration!
Wednesday, May 8th at 3:30pm in the Augsburg University Chapel and Foss Atrium. Come cheer on our graduates as they mark this incredible milestone.
submitted by longj@augsburg.edu
As we near the end of another year please don’t forget to take care of your campus mailbox. This includes checking it for any mail, returning your lock and filing out the survey for what you would like us to do with your mail after this semester.
One weeks after the spring semester ends (on May 15, 2025) we will close all student campus boxes unless you responded to the End of Year survey. If you would like your mail forwarded or would like to keep your mailbox open for the summer, please fill out the form
(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeA6NyaiFZI2pFW_1SD6hEHCflfjaZ00b1ZRyzbqLNKp78SXA/viewform?usp=header).
Before the fall semester starts we will reassign campus boxes to all residential students. Without completing the survey, it will most likely be a different number.
We are only able to forward 1st Class USPS mail. Packages must be looked at case by case. Some USPS will allow forwarding. (Reply to the Augsburg package email and we will look at that package.) Other packages (UPS, FedEx, Amazon, etc.), magazines, non-profit mail and standard mail will not be forwarded. We can also only forward to USA addresses. The forwarding period for the Augsburg Mailroom is two months from when the request is submitted. Afterward any additional mail we receive will be returned to sender.
We request that you contact the people/business sending you mail and update your address with them. Augsburg is classified as a business so you will not be able to do so through the US Post Office itself. Enrolling in online/electronic bills or statements can also be a smart option, it is environmentally friendly, secure and will often save you time (and sometimes money). Asking us to forward your mail does not change your mailing address with the USPS or Augsburg University, just with the Mailroom.
submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu
All faculty and staff are invited to join CTL for our annual Days in May Professional Development Conference, with sessions available May 12, 13 & 14. The Diaz Memorial Lecture will be Thursday, May 14, 10:45 am in the chapel, and features Revered Dr. Kelly Sherman-Conroy as keynote speaker. Please register by April 30 to reserve your seat for the lecture and lunch.
submitted by adamsc@augsburg.edu
The 29th Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed conference will be here at Augsburg this summer! Join us July 23-26 for a deeply participatory conference where we lean into inquiry, dialogue, and creative expression as ways to challenge the forces of domination, share learning and knowledge, and to create change! Artists, activists, organizers, educators and anyone working to dismantle oppression, this is for you!
“My voice is in tune with a different language, another kind of music. It speaks of resistance, indignation, the just anger of those who are deceived and betrayed. It speaks, too, of their right to rebel against the ethical transgressions of which they are the long-suffering victims.” –Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
In a time when public education, democracy, community organizing, the arts, and critical pedagogy face extraordinary threats, this year’s conference invites educators, activists, artists, and community members to gather in solidarity. We recognize the ashes of programs dismantled, communities marginalized, and voices silenced. Yet, in these ashes, we also see the seeds of resistance and the songs of transformation. Across the world, oppressions continue to intensify on many fronts, but people continue to build mass struggles to survive and even (when at all possible) thrive.
This gathering provides opportunities for people to share and expand on their methods to create participatory justice in spite of our current material, economic, and political conditions. And we will sing songs that ask us to transform our current moments of despair, anger, and fear into practices of radical hope, love, and joy–joy is resistance! Join us if you can!
submitted by adamsc@augsburg.edu
All Augsburg faculty, students, and staff are invited to participate in a Theatre of the Oppressed workshop here on campus in July!
“Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society.” (Augusto Boal, Games for Actors and Non-Actors). Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed is happy to offer this one day workshop on Theatre of the Oppressed, facilitated by PTO Board Member Mark Weinberg from the Center for Applied Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Designed with local participants in mind, this workshop will run on Thursday, July 23 2026, from 1:00-4:30pm CDT at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. We thank Mark for this voluntary service as a board member.
In this workshop participants will be introduced to the techniques used in Theatre of the Oppressed to not only reveal reality as it is, but more importantly to invent reality as it could be. After some basic theory, the first part of the workshop will focus on demechanization, perception, and community building. We will do some exercises (physical reflections on oneself), play some games, and explore how we create together.
The second part of the workshop will introduce Image Theatre – making sculptures with our bodies and dynamizing them to discover the goals, desires, and possibilities within them.
During the last segment of the workshop, we will become spect-actors in a Forum Theatre scene and raise questions about the power of Theatre of the Oppressed to point to the difficulty of challenging systemic oppression and to promote learning for all involved.
The working language of this workshop will be in English.
Augsburg faculty, staff, and students can register at no cost by contacting Charles Adams at adamsc@augsburg.edu.
This event is sponsored by the Theater Department and the Schwartz School of the Arts.
More information about the conference and pre-conference events
submitted by coleda@augsburg.edu
Please join us in Hoversten Chapel at 11:50 am for Jesiah Mason’s senior chapel service. Senior chapels are an opportunity for students to share about their experiences at Augsburg.
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 final First Friday of the academic year is this week, May 1, 12pm—3pm. The greenhouse is located on the 4th floor of the Hagfors Center.
Stay updated on greenhouse activities by following us on Instagram!
submitted by green5@augsburg.edu
The outstanding musicians of the Augsburg University Jazz Ensemble will perform an exciting evening of music tonight! The concert will feature the music of Clifford Brown, Michele Fernández, Yoko Kanno, Reggie Pace, and Booker T. Jones.
Date: Thursday, April 30
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Sateren Auditorium
Cost: Free
submitted by isaacson@augsburg.edu
With a number of school and family events upcoming, I have a few tickets available for sale earlier in the season. Seats are located in Section 105, Row 10 on the aisle (seats 1 and 2). Face value is $28 each, asking $24 each
Friday 5/01 @ 6:30 pm (2 tickets / Friday night fireworks)
Sunday 5/03 @ 2:00 pm (2 tickets)
Weds 5/13 @ 6:30 pm (2 tickets)
Friday 5/15 @ 6:30 pm (2 tickets / Friday night fireworks)
Sunday 6/07 @ 2 pm (2 tickets)
Thurs 7/02 @ 7 pm (2 tickets)
Email me with any questions (isaacson@augsburg.edu). Other dates / quantities may be available. Tickets sent electronically with electronic payments (Venmo, Paypal, etc).
submitted by finka2@augsburg.edu
YST 210: Rethinking Children and Youth
Fall 2026, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:40pm to 5:10pm
Instructor: Kao Nou L. Moua, PhD, MSW, LGSW (mouakao@augsburg.edu)
Society often expects children and youth to be seen and not heard. This course will develop an understanding of children and youth that will allow us to engage them as assets and agents of positive change. This class is great for future youth workers, social workers, educators, coaches, and youth mentors!
submitted by finka2@augsburg.edu
The Campus Wide Initiative (CWI) Undergraduate Student Survey is designed to help our college understand campus culture and track how we are developing “civic fluency”—the ability to engage effectively with community issues and diverse perspectives.
THIRTY students will win a $50 GIFT CARD. ONE student will win a pair of BEATS STUDIO PRO HEADPHONES.
The survey takes LESS THAN 5 MINUTES to complete.
Undergraduate students, don’t miss out on this opportunity to complete the survey and win!
Campus Wide Initiative Survey – complete for a chance to win a $50 gift card!
submitted by velamcco@augsburg.edu
Members of the Augsburg Community,
You are invited to participate in a study focusing on the mental health impact of Operation Metro Surge, in which the Department of Homeland Security sent approximately 3000 ICE and Border Control agents to the Twin Cities beginning in December 2025 and officially lasting through mid-February of 2026.
Prof. James Vela-McConnell, in the Department of Sociology here at Augsburg, is conducting an anonymous survey that is intended to further document the impact of this event on our community and ourselves and you are invited to participate. This online survey should take approximately 30 minutes and can be completed at your convenience. At the end of the survey, you will have the opportunity to enter a raffle for one of six $50 gift cards or one of eight $25 gift. Alternatively, the raffle winners may choose to donate the value of their gift card to a local organization working to support immigrant residents of the Twin Cities metro.
To take the survey, check your emails for your invitation to participate or simply click on the link below for the flyer with the link & QR code.
Also, we are hoping to include as many residents of the Twin Cities area as possible in this research on the mental health impact of Operation Metro Surge. Please feel free forward the flyer and invite your local family, friends, neighbors, etc. to participate. In addition to the entire Augsburg community, anyone who lives and/or works in the Twin Cities metro region and is 18 years of age or older may participate.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
submitted by adamsc@augsburg.edu
The 29th Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed conference will be here at Augsburg this summer! Join us July 23-26 for a deeply participatory conference where we lean into inquiry, dialogue, and creative expression as ways to challenge the forces of domination, share learning and knowledge, and to create change! Artists, activists, organizers, educators and anyone working to dismantle oppression, this is for you!
“My voice is in tune with a different language, another kind of music. It speaks of resistance, indignation, the just anger of those who are deceived and betrayed. It speaks, too, of their right to rebel against the ethical transgressions of which they are the long-suffering victims.” –Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
In a time when public education, democracy, community organizing, the arts, and critical pedagogy face extraordinary threats, this year’s conference invites educators, activists, artists, and community members to gather in solidarity. We recognize the ashes of programs dismantled, communities marginalized, and voices silenced. Yet, in these ashes, we also see the seeds of resistance and the songs of transformation. Across the world, oppressions continue to intensify on many fronts, but people continue to build mass struggles to survive and even (when at all possible) thrive.
This gathering provides opportunities for people to share and expand on their methods to create participatory justice in spite of our current material, economic, and political conditions. And we will sing songs that ask us to transform our current moments of despair, anger, and fear into practices of radical hope, love, and joy–joy is resistance! Join us if you can!
submitted by adamsc@augsburg.edu
All Augsburg faculty, students, and staff are invited to participate in a Theatre of the Oppressed workshop here on campus in July!
“Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society.” (Augusto Boal, Games for Actors and Non-Actors). Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed is happy to offer this one day workshop on Theatre of the Oppressed, facilitated by PTO Board Member Mark Weinberg from the Center for Applied Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Designed with local participants in mind, this workshop will run on Thursday, July 23 2026, from 1:00-4:30pm CDT at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. We thank Mark for this voluntary service as a board member.
In this workshop participants will be introduced to the techniques used in Theatre of the Oppressed to not only reveal reality as it is, but more importantly to invent reality as it could be. After some basic theory, the first part of the workshop will focus on demechanization, perception, and community building. We will do some exercises (physical reflections on oneself), play some games, and explore how we create together.
The second part of the workshop will introduce Image Theatre – making sculptures with our bodies and dynamizing them to discover the goals, desires, and possibilities within them.
During the last segment of the workshop, we will become spect-actors in a Forum Theatre scene and raise questions about the power of Theatre of the Oppressed to point to the difficulty of challenging systemic oppression and to promote learning for all involved.
The working language of this workshop will be in English.
Augsburg faculty, staff, and students can register at no cost by contacting Charles Adams at adamsc@augsburg.edu.
This event is sponsored by the Theater Department and the Schwartz School of the Arts.
More information about the conference and pre-conference events
submitted by phalp1@augsburg.edu
The Last Auggie Doggies Day for this semester. Make sure you stop by to see them today 🙂
Wednesday, April 29th
Time: 12pm – 1pm
Location: CWC Lobby
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXhHqt9DTR-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
submitted by voravone@augsburg.edu
Join us for the StepUP Program Graduation & Celebration!
Wednesday, May 8th at 3:30pm in the Augsburg University Chapel and Foss Atrium. Come cheer on our graduates as they mark this incredible milestone.
submitted by yangss7@augsburg.edu
Hello, my name is ShaShee Yang, and I am a Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student at Augsburg University. I am conducting a research study about the internalization of Model Minority Myth stereotypes and their impacts on depressive and anxiety symptoms in Asian-American college students. I would love for you to be a part of the study! The study will consist of a brief demographic survey and three standardized questionnaires asking questions about internalization of the Model Minority Myth, current depressive symptoms, and current anxiety symptoms. The entire survey should take approximately 15 to 30 minutes to complete. To thank you for your participation, upon completing the surveys, you will have the option to enter your information in a raffle for one of two $25 Caribou Coffee gift cards. If you are interested in participating, please contact me at the email address listed below. I appreciate you taking the time to consider being a part of my project. If you have any questions, please contact me at yangss7@augsburg.edu.
submitted by mollberg@augsburg.edu
The Augsburg University Writing Center is open and be ready to support your writing this semester! Our current hours are Sunday 5-8pm and Monday–Thursday, 2–8 p.m. Online tutoring is also available by appointment Sunday-Thursday 6-8pm. Please visit the writing center website for more information.
We are located across from Advising on the second floor of the library.
https://sites.augsburg.edu/writingcenter/
At the Writing Center, trained peer tutors work with writers at all levels and in all disciplines. Whether you are just beginning an assignment and need help generating ideas, in the middle of a draft and looking for feedback on structure or clarity, or polishing a final version before submitting, our tutors are here to help. They can also support you in developing stronger arguments, refining your style, citing sources, and building effective revision strategies.
You can bring in any kind of writing project—course essays, research papers, lab reports, resumes, personal statements, creative pieces, or even application materials. No matter the stage of the process or the type of writing, tutors provide constructive, supportive feedback that is focused on helping you grow as a writer.
Stop by during open hours to meet with a tutor and make the most of your writing this semester!
submitted by hansonjl@augsburg.edu
Join us for an insightful evening featuring award-winning director and producer Laurens Grant, Co-Executive Producer of the powerful new docuseries Hollywood Black. Directed by Justin Simien (Dear White People), this series provides a definitive look at over a century of the African American struggle for representation, both in front of and behind the camera.
This special screening of featured episodes from the series will be followed by a conversation with Grant. She will discuss her unique perspectives on the making of the series and her own work as a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker.
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with one of the industry’s most compelling voices as we explore the past, present, and future of Black Hollywood.
Event Information
Date: Wednesday, April 29th Time: 6pm CST, Snacks and Social Time at 5:30pm
Location: Sateren Auditorium
Parking is available in Lot L.
submitted by green5@augsburg.edu
The outstanding musicians of the Augsburg University Jazz Ensemble will perform an exciting evening of music tomorrow! The concert will feature the music of Clifford Brown, Michele Fernández, Yoko Kanno, Reggie Pace, and Booker T. Jones.
Date: Thursday, April 30
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Sateren Auditorium
Cost: Free
submitted by devries@augsburg.edu
A Fulbright Award gives you the opportunity to teach, research, or study abroad for an academic year after graduation. The process of applying is invaluable and winning the award is a life-changing experience. The Augsburg URGO office provides support to you in the application process, even if you’ve already graduated.
To be eligible and competitive you need to:
– Be a U.S. citizen or national
– Have a 3.0 or higher GPA for serving as an English Teaching Assistant
– Have a 3.5 or higher to conduct research or attend graduate school abroad
– Be an active member in the Augsburg community or your home community
– Have effective skills to adapt to another culture and serve as a cultural ambassador of the U.S. to your host country
If you are a junior, senior, or recent graduate, you would start working on your application this summer. The campus deadline is Friday, September 4, 2026. Winners are announced in Spring 2027 for placement in Fall 2027.
If you would like to learn more, please schedule an appointment with Prof. Jacqui deVries, Augsburg’s Fulbright Program Advisor, by emailing her: devries@ausgburg.edu.
submitted by finka2@augsburg.edu
YST 210: Rethinking Children and Youth
Fall 2026, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:40pm to 5:10pm
Instructor: Kao Nou L. Moua, PhD, MSW, LGSW (mouakao@augsburg.edu)
Society often expects children and youth to be seen and not heard. This course will develop an understanding of children and youth that will allow us to engage them as assets and agents of positive change. This class is great for future youth workers, social workers, educators, coaches, and youth mentors!
submitted by finka2@augsburg.edu
The Campus Wide Initiative (CWI) Undergraduate Student Survey is designed to help our college understand campus culture and track how we are developing “civic fluency”—the ability to engage effectively with community issues and diverse perspectives.
THIRTY students will win a $50 GIFT CARD. ONE student will win a pair of BEATS STUDIO PRO HEADPHONES.
The survey takes LESS THAN 5 MINUTES to complete.
Undergraduate students, don’t miss out on this opportunity to complete the survey and win!
Campus Wide Initiative Survey – complete for a chance to win a $50 gift card!
submitted by hr@augsburg.edu
The following Augsburg Student positions were posted within the past 7 days:
04/27/2026: Student: Summer Central Services Customer Service Assistant 2026
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000123276139-student-summer-central-services-customer-service-assistant-2026
04/21/2026: Student: PsyD Graduate Research Assistant 26-27
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000122075282-student-psyd-graduate-research-assistant-26-27
submitted by bjorkluw@augsburg.edu
The Registrar and the Student Financial Services office will be closed today between 11:30am-12:30pm. We will operate normally from 10am-11:30am and resume operations at 12:30pm.
Thank you for your understanding!
submitted by leedoua@augsburg.edu
Students can return rental textbooks and sell used books for cash or buyback credit during the on-campus buyback and rental return event. This in-person option allows students to complete both tasks quickly without shipping materials.
Event Information:
• Location: Augsburg University Campus Store
• Date: 5/4 – 5/8
• Time: 9AM – 4PM
All returns are due by May 15, 2026. If you can’t make it in-person before then, you can always sell and return books online at augsburg.ecampus.com.
submitted by myers@augsburg.edu
Join us today (Wednesday) for Chris Dixon’s How We Thrive talk.
Chris Dixon is Augsburg University men’s and women’s track and field head coach as well as the Assistant Athletic Director and Director of Athletic Diversity and Inclusion. Chris has also been a DI college athlete, an entrepreneur, a health and fitness education and wellness consultant, and a dad. Come and hear what Chris has to share about how he thrives in our world.
HOW WE THRIVE: STORIES OF WHAT IT MEANS TO THRIVE – TOGETHER.
Chris Dixon
Wednesday April 29, 2026
12:00 p.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Hoversten Chapel
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 final First Friday of the academic year is this week, May 1, 12pm—3pm. The greenhouse is located on the 4th floor of the Hagfors Center.
Stay updated on greenhouse activities by following us on Instagram!
submitted by longj@augsburg.edu
We are currently seeking a few enthusiastic and dependable part-time student customer service assistants to work in Shipping/Receiving. The job will be 4 days a week for a two hour shift each day.
Responsibilities
Handling package pickup and drop-off in Shipping and Receiving for Augsburg community
members
Checking packages in and out of Q-Track system, checking IDs for those picking up
Assisting with shipping and mailing customer requests, operating the cash register
Receiving incoming packages from vendors (FedEx, UPS, USPS, and Amazon)
Packing and preparing outgoing packages, selling postage and supplies
Metering and sealing envelopes, sending international, priority mail parcels
Delivering packages around campus in all weather conditions
Organizing and cleaning workspace
Stocking and maintaining supplies for shipping, mailing, Copy Center and printers around
campus.
Answering phone calls
Lifting and moving packages, operating a pallet jack and cart for deliveries
Using a desktop computer to assist customers and Central Services team
Student: Summer Central Services Customer Service Assistant 2026
submitted by castelj@augsburg.edu
Congratulations on your upcoming graduation! Please take a few minutes to complete the First Destination Survey, which captures your post-graduation plans — whether you’re entering the workforce, pursuing graduate school, serving in the military, or something else entirely. Your response helps Augsburg better understand where our graduates are headed.
As a thank-you, students who complete the survey by May 7th at 11:59 PM will be entered to win one of three $50 gift cards!
Note: You’ll need your Augsburg email address to access the survey and be entered in the raffle.
This survey is open to students graduating between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026. Responses will be collected through December 31, 2026.
Wishing you all the best in your next chapter!
submitted by longj@augsburg.edu
As we near the end of another year please don’t forget to take care of your campus mailbox. This includes checking it for any mail, returning your lock and filing out the survey for what you would like us to do with your mail after this semester.
One weeks after the spring semester ends (on May 15, 2025) we will close all student campus boxes unless you responded to the End of Year survey. If you would like your mail forwarded or would like to keep your mailbox open for the summer, please fill out the form
(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeA6NyaiFZI2pFW_1SD6hEHCflfjaZ00b1ZRyzbqLNKp78SXA/viewform?usp=header).
Before the fall semester starts we will reassign campus boxes to all residential students. Without completing the survey, it will most likely be a different number.
We are only able to forward 1st Class USPS mail. Packages must be looked at case by case. Some USPS will allow forwarding. (Reply to the Augsburg package email and we will look at that package.) Other packages (UPS, FedEx, Amazon, etc.), magazines, non-profit mail and standard mail will not be forwarded. We can also only forward to USA addresses. The forwarding period for the Augsburg Mailroom is two months from when the request is submitted. Afterward any additional mail we receive will be returned to sender.
We request that you contact the people/business sending you mail and update your address with them. Augsburg is classified as a business so you will not be able to do so through the US Post Office itself. Enrolling in online/electronic bills or statements can also be a smart option, it is environmentally friendly, secure and will often save you time (and sometimes money). Asking us to forward your mail does not change your mailing address with the USPS or Augsburg University, just with the Mailroom.
submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu
All faculty and staff are invited to join CTL for our annual Days in May Professional Development Conference, with sessions available May 12, 13 & 14. The Diaz Memorial Lecture will be Thursday, May 14, 10:45 am in the chapel, and features Revered Dr. Kelly Sherman-Conroy as keynote speaker. Please register by April 30 to reserve your seat for the lecture and lunch.
submitted by green5@augsburg.edu
The outstanding musicians of the Augsburg University Jazz Ensemble will perform an exciting evening of music on Thursday! The concert will feature the music of Clifford Brown, Michele Fernández, Yoko Kanno, Reggie Pace, and Booker T. Jones.
Date: Thursday, April 30
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Sateren Auditorium
Cost: Free
submitted by kelleyf@augsburg.edu
Hi QIPOC family! To end the school year, we are hosting a farewell bonfire in Murphy Square THIS Wednesday, on April 29th, from 4:30-6:30pm. Please join us for a bonfire, picnic, crafting, yard games, and a fun time with friends.
If it rains, the backup location is the Student Lounge. Pets are allowed in Murphy Square.
We hope to see you at our final event for this year!
submitted by hr@augsburg.edu
The following Augsburg Student positions were posted within the past 7 days:
04/21/2026: Student: PsyD Graduate Research Assistant 26-27
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000122075282-student-psyd-graduate-research-assistant-26-27
submitted by coleda@augsburg.edu
Please join us in Hoversten Chapel at 11:50 am for Rukia Gesaade’s senior chapel service. Senior chapels are an opportunity for students to share about their experiences at Augsburg. Immediately following Chapel will be the Release & Blessing of Pastoral Intern Megan Moroff.
submitted by leedoua@augsburg.edu
Students can return rental textbooks and sell used books for cash or buyback credit during the on-campus buyback and rental return event. This in-person option allows students to complete both tasks quickly without shipping materials.
Event Information:
• Location: Augsburg University Campus Store
• Date: 5/4 – 5/8
• Time: 9AM – 4PM
Rental textbooks are due by: May 15, 2026
Students who cannot attend the on-campus event may complete buyback and rental returns online at augsburg.ecampus.com.
submitted by castelj@augsburg.edu
Congratulations on your upcoming graduation! Please take a few minutes to complete the First Destination Survey, which captures your post-graduation plans — whether you’re entering the workforce, pursuing graduate school, serving in the military, or something else entirely. Your response helps Augsburg better understand where our graduates are headed.
As a thank-you, students who complete the survey by May 7th at 11:59 PM will be entered to win one of three $50 gift cards!
Access the survey here: First Destination Survey Link
Note: You’ll need your Augsburg email address to access the survey and be entered in the raffle.
This survey is open to students graduating between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026. Responses will be collected through December 31, 2026.
Wishing you all the best in your next chapter!
submitted by hardaker@augsburg.edu
Students, the study abroad office wants to hear from you!
ALL students are invited to fill out this quick survey about study abroad opportunities and our CGEE Study Centers. You do not have to have gone abroad nor be planning to go; this is a survey for everyone!
The survey should only take 5 minutes to complete. Everyone that submits the survey by May 6th will be entered in a drawing for a gift card.
submitted by velamcco@augsburg.edu
Members of the Augsburg Community,
You are invited to participate in a study focusing on the mental health impact of Operation Metro Surge, in which the Department of Homeland Security sent approximately 3000 ICE and Border Control agents to the Twin Cities beginning in December 2025 and officially lasting through mid-February of 2026.
Prof. James Vela-McConnell, in the Department of Sociology here at Augsburg, is conducting an anonymous survey that is intended to further document the impact of this event on our community and ourselves and you are invited to participate. This online survey should take approximately 30 minutes and can be completed at your convenience. At the end of the survey, you will have the opportunity to enter a raffle for one of six $50 gift cards or one of eight $25 gift. Alternatively, the raffle winners may choose to donate the value of their gift card to a local organization working to support immigrant residents of the Twin Cities metro.
To take the survey, check your emails for your invitation to participate or simply click on the link below for the flyer with the link & QR code.
Also, we are hoping to include as many residents of the Twin Cities area as possible in this research on the mental health impact of Operation Metro Surge. Please feel free forward the flyer and invite your local family, friends, neighbors, etc. to participate. In addition to the entire Augsburg community, anyone who lives and/or works in the Twin Cities metro region and is 18 years of age or older may participate.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
submitted by myers@augsburg.edu
Join us on Wednesday April 29th for Chris Dixon’s How We Thrive talk.
Chris Dixon is Augsburg University men’s and women’s track and field head coach as well as the Assistant Athletic Director and Director of Athletic Diversity and Inclusion. Chris has also been a DI college athlete, an entrepreneur, a health and fitness education and wellness consultant, and a dad. Come and hear what Chris has to share about how he thrives in our world.
HOW WE THRIVE: STORIES OF WHAT IT MEANS TO THRIVE – TOGETHER.
Chris Dixon
Wednesday April 29, 2026
12:00 p.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Hoversten Chapel
submitted by klawiter@augsburg.edu
Did you know Augsburg is home to a community garden with 65 individual plots for neighbors and 3 student-led communal plots? Does this intrigue you? Does environmental stewardship and radical inclusivity inspire you? Are you interested in learning more or participating? Then you should join the garden committee!!
We are currently looking for students, staff, faculty and community members to be a part of the garden committee to share inspiration, ideas and help make decisions that will shape the future of the garden. We meet once a month for about an hour and a half. For more information, please email Greta at klawiter@augsburg.edu
submitted by adamsc@augsburg.edu
All Augsburg faculty, students, and staff are invited to participate in a Theatre of the Oppressed workshop here on campus in July!
“Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society.” (Augusto Boal, Games for Actors and Non-Actors). Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed is happy to offer this one day workshop on Theatre of the Oppressed, facilitated by PTO Board Member Mark Weinberg from the Center for Applied Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Designed with local participants in mind, this workshop will run on Thursday, July 23 2026, from 1:00-4:30pm CDT at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. We thank Mark for this voluntary service as a board member.
In this workshop participants will be introduced to the techniques used in Theatre of the Oppressed to not only reveal reality as it is, but more importantly to invent reality as it could be. After some basic theory, the first part of the workshop will focus on demechanization, perception, and community building. We will do some exercises (physical reflections on oneself), play some games, and explore how we create together.
The second part of the workshop will introduce Image Theatre – making sculptures with our bodies and dynamizing them to discover the goals, desires, and possibilities within them.
During the last segment of the workshop, we will become spect-actors in a Forum Theatre scene and raise questions about the power of Theatre of the Oppressed to point to the difficulty of challenging systemic oppression and to promote learning for all involved.
The working language of this workshop will be in English.
Augsburg faculty, staff, and students can register at no cost by contacting Charles Adams at adamsc@augsburg.edu.
This event is sponsored by the Theater Department and the Schwartz School of the Arts.
More information on the Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed Conference here at Augsburg
submitted by peacock@augsburg.edu
The People’s Center Clinic is holding a Patient and Community Speak Out event on Friday, May 1 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM at the Brian Coyle Community Center. Stop by and share your thoughts about community health needs.
submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu
All faculty and staff are invited to join CTL for our annual Days in May Professional Development Conference, with sessions available May 12, 13 & 14. The Diaz Memorial Lecture will be Thursday, May 14, 10:45 am in the chapel, and features Revered Dr. Kelly Sherman-Conroy as keynote speaker. Please register by April 30 to reserve your seat for the lecture and lunch.
submitted by finka2@augsburg.edu
The Campus Wide Initiative (CWI) Undergraduate Student Survey is designed to help our college understand campus culture and track how we are developing “civic fluency”—the ability to engage effectively with community issues and diverse perspectives.
THIRTY students will win a $50 GIFT CARD. ONE student will win a pair of BEATS STUDIO PRO HEADPHONES.
The survey takes LESS THAN 5 MINUTES to complete.
Undergraduate students, don’t miss out on this opportunity to complete the survey and win!
Campus Wide Initiative Survey – complete for a chance to win a $50 gift card!
submitted by kelleyf@augsburg.edu
Hi QIPOC family! To end the school year, we are hosting a farewell bonfire in Murphy Square THIS Wednesday, on April 29th, from 4:30-6:30pm. Please join us for a bonfire, picnic, crafting, yard games, and a fun time with friends.
If it rains, the backup location is the Student Lounge. Pets are allowed in Murphy Square.
We hope to see you at our final event for this year!
submitted by finka2@augsburg.edu
The Campus Wide Initiative (CWI) Undergraduate Student Survey is designed to help our college understand campus culture and track how we are developing “civic fluency”—the ability to engage effectively with community issues and diverse perspectives.
THIRTY students will win a $50 GIFT CARD. ONE student will win a pair of BEATS STUDIO PRO HEADPHONES.
The survey takes LESS THAN 5 MINUTES to complete.
Undergraduate students, don’t miss out on this opportunity to complete the survey and win!
Campus Wide Initiative Survey – complete for a chance to win a $50 gift card!
submitted by vachta@augsburg.edu
Meet with Ted Vickerman ’02 , Financial Consultant with TIAA. Ted is an Augsburg alum and served as Head Coach for the men’s and women’s golf teams frin 2005-2014. He has been in the financial services industry since 2018 and was an advisor at Thrivent Financial, Ameriprise and G4 Wealth Advisors before joining TIAA earlier this year. Ted is excited to provide one-on-one advice for Augsburg employees.
Ted will be on campus Tuesday, April 28 and Friday, May 8. Sign up for a one-on-one consultation today at tiaa.org/schedulenow or by calling 800-842-2252.
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No matter where you are in life—whether you’re just getting started or
planning for retirement—a session with a financial consultant can help
you create a plan for your goals. And, it’s at no additional cost as a part of
your retirement plan. You’ll get answers to these questions and more:
– Am I invested in the appropriate mix of investments to help meet my
goals?
– Am I saving enough to create the retirement income I need?
– How do I take income from my retirement account once I stop
working?
Be sure to have investment, retirment, and savings financial statements on hand
for your meeting.
submitted by leedoua@augsburg.edu
Students can return rental textbooks and sell used books for cash or buyback credit during the on-campus buyback and rental return event. This in-person option allows students to complete both tasks quickly without shipping materials.
Event Information:
• Location: Augsburg University Campus Store
• Date: 5/4 – 5/8
• Time: 9AM – 4PM
Rental textbooks are due by: May 15, 2026
Students who cannot attend the on-campus event may complete buyback and rental returns online at augsburg.ecampus.com.
submitted by myers@augsburg.edu
Join us on Wednesday April 29th for Chris Dixon’s How We Thrive talk.
Chris Dixon is Augsburg University men’s and women’s track and field head coach as well as the Assistant Athletic Director and Director of Athletic Diversity and Inclusion. Chris has also been a DI college athlete, an entrepreneur, a health and fitness education and wellness consultant, and a dad. Come and hear what Chris has to share about how he thrives in our world.
HOW WE THRIVE: STORIES OF WHAT IT MEANS TO THRIVE – TOGETHER.
Chris Dixon
Wednesday April 29, 2026
12:00 p.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Hoversten Chapel
submitted by velamcco@augsburg.edu
Members of the Augsburg Community,
You are invited to participate in a study focusing on the mental health impact of Operation Metro Surge, in which the Department of Homeland Security sent approximately 3000 ICE and Border Control agents to the Twin Cities beginning in December 2025 and officially lasting through mid-February of 2026.
Prof. James Vela-McConnell, in the Department of Sociology here at Augsburg, is conducting an anonymous survey that is intended to further document the impact of this event on our community and ourselves and you are invited to participate. This online survey should take approximately 30 minutes and can be completed at your convenience. At the end of the survey, you will have the opportunity to enter a raffle for one of six $50 gift cards or one of eight $25 gift. Alternatively, the raffle winners may choose to donate the value of their gift card to a local organization working to support immigrant residents of the Twin Cities metro.
To take the survey, check your emails for your invitation to participate or simply click on the link below for the flyer with the link & QR code.
Also, we are hoping to include as many residents of the Twin Cities area as possible in this research on the mental health impact of Operation Metro Surge. Please feel free forward the flyer and invite your local family, friends, neighbors, etc. to participate. In addition to the entire Augsburg community, anyone who lives and/or works in the Twin Cities metro region and is 18 years of age or older may participate.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
submitted by longj@augsburg.edu
As we near the end of another year please don’t forget to take care of your campus mailbox. This includes checking it for any mail, returning your lock and filing out the survey for what you would like us to do with your mail after this semester.
One weeks after the spring semester ends (on May 15, 2025) we will close all student campus boxes unless you responded to the End of Year survey. If you would like your mail forwarded or would like to keep your mailbox open for the summer, please fill out the form
(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeA6NyaiFZI2pFW_1SD6hEHCflfjaZ00b1ZRyzbqLNKp78SXA/viewform?usp=header).
Before the fall semester starts we will reassign campus boxes to all residential students. Without completing the survey, it will most likely be a different number.
We are only able to forward 1st Class USPS mail. Packages must be looked at case by case. Some USPS will allow forwarding. (Reply to the Augsburg package email and we will look at that package.) Other packages (UPS, FedEx, Amazon, etc.), magazines, non-profit mail and standard mail will not be forwarded. We can also only forward to USA addresses. The forwarding period for the Augsburg Mailroom is two months from when the request is submitted. Afterward any additional mail we receive will be returned to sender.
We request that you contact the people/business sending you mail and update your address with them. Augsburg is classified as a business so you will not be able to do so through the US Post Office itself. Enrolling in online/electronic bills or statements can also be a smart option, it is environmentally friendly, secure and will often save you time (and sometimes money). Asking us to forward your mail does not change your mailing address with the USPS or Augsburg University, just with the Mailroom.
submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu
All faculty and staff are invited to join CTL for our annual Days in May Professional Development Conference, with sessions available May 12, 13 & 14. The Diaz Memorial Lecture will be Thursday, May 14, 10:45 am in the chapel, and features Revered Dr. Kelly Sherman-Conroy as keynote speaker. Please register by April 30 to reserve your seat for the lecture and lunch.
submitted by bjorkluw@augsburg.edu
The 2026-2027 priority deadline for returning students FAFSA is June 1st, 2026. Submitting by this date is the best way to ensure funding availability for the upcoming year.
If you have questions about the application or run into any issues, the Student Financial Services team is here to help! Stop by our office, or schedule an appointment with a financial aid counselor for further assistance.
submitted by adamsc@augsburg.edu
All Augsburg faculty, students, and staff are invited to participate in a Theatre of the Oppressed workshop here on campus in July!
“Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society.” (Augusto Boal, Games for Actors and Non-Actors). Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed is happy to offer this one day workshop on Theatre of the Oppressed, facilitated by PTO Board Member Mark Weinberg from the Center for Applied Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Designed with local participants in mind, this workshop will run on Thursday, July 23 2026, from 1:00-4:30pm CDT at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. We thank Mark for this voluntary service as a board member.
In this workshop participants will be introduced to the techniques used in Theatre of the Oppressed to not only reveal reality as it is, but more importantly to invent reality as it could be. After some basic theory, the first part of the workshop will focus on demechanization, perception, and community building. We will do some exercises (physical reflections on oneself), play some games, and explore how we create together.
The second part of the workshop will introduce Image Theatre – making sculptures with our bodies and dynamizing them to discover the goals, desires, and possibilities within them.
During the last segment of the workshop, we will become spect-actors in a Forum Theatre scene and raise questions about the power of Theatre of the Oppressed to point to the difficulty of challenging systemic oppression and to promote learning for all involved.
The working language of this workshop will be in English.
Augsburg faculty, staff, and students can register at no cost by contacting Charles Adams at adamsc@augsburg.edu.
This event is sponsored by the Theater Department and the Schwartz School of the Arts.
More information on the Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed Conference and Pre-Conference Events
submitted by hardaker@augsburg.edu
Students, the study abroad office wants to hear from you!
ALL students are invited to fill out this quick survey about study abroad opportunities and our CGEE Study Centers. You do not have to have gone abroad nor be planning to go; this is a survey for everyone!
The survey should only take 5 minutes to complete. Everyone that submits the survey by May 6th will be entered in a drawing for a gift card.
submitted by coleda@augsburg.edu
Mindful Monday: Breathe, Move, Be. Start your week with 20 minutes of being, not doing. Today Nichole Rohlfsen, CGEE, will lead mindfulness in Hoversten Chapel at 12:00 – 12:20 pm.
submitted by hr@augsburg.edu
The following Augsburg Student positions were posted within the past 7 days:
04/21/2026: Student: PsyD Graduate Research Assistant 26-27
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000122075282-student-psyd-graduate-research-assistant-26-27
04/17/2026: Student: Auggie Admissions Ambassador, 2026-27
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000121516754-student-auggie-admissions-ambassador-2026-27
04/17/2026: Summer Student Research Assistant 2026
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000121506207-summer-student-research-assistant-2026
04/17/2026: Student: Community Garden Assistant 2026
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000121441398-student-community-garden-assistant-2026
submitted by kelleyf@augsburg.edu
Hi QIPOC family! To end our school year, we are hosting a farewell bonfire in Murphy Square next Wednesday on April 29th, from 4:30-6:30pm. Please join us for a bonfire, picnic, crafting, games, and a fun time with friends.
If it rains, the backup location is the Student Lounge. Pets are allowed in Murphy Square.
We hope to see you at the final event for this year!
submitted by ullery@augsburg.edu
You’re invited to attend our Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Poster Presentations on Monday, April 27, from 1:30–4:30 p.m. in the Marshall Room of the Christianson Center.
Our eleven Doctor of Nursing Practice–Family Nurse Practitioner students will present their DNP projects, highlighting the impact of their work in the community and how these experiences will inform their future practice as Advanced Practice Registered Nurses.
submitted by murdockf@augsburg.edu
Thó Wiŋ Magazine is looking to publish works of all forms from Augsburg students and faculty. If you have artwork, photography, poetry, short stories, or academic writing you want to see published in Augsburg’s literary arts magazine, please visit thowinmagazine.com/submissions to find out more.
We are looking to include a wide variety of Augsburg community voices, and all submissions are welcome. If you have any questions, reach out to us at twmagazine@augsburg.edu.
Submissions close April 24th at 11:59pm. Multiple submissions are welcome.
Submit here!
thowinmagazine.com/submissions
submitted by hr@augsburg.edu
The following Augsburg Student positions were posted within the past 7 days:
04/21/2026: Student: PsyD Graduate Research Assistant 26-27
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000122075282-student-psyd-graduate-research-assistant-26-27
04/17/2026: Student: Auggie Admissions Ambassador, 2026-27
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000121516754-student-auggie-admissions-ambassador-2026-27
04/17/2026: Summer Student Research Assistant 2026
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000121506207-summer-student-research-assistant-2026
04/17/2026: Student: Community Garden Assistant 2026
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000121441398-student-community-garden-assistant-2026
submitted by devries@augsburg.edu
Fulbright Information Sessions
Thursday, April 30, 4:30-5:30 pm on Zoom
Tuesday, May 5, 12 to 1 pm on Zoom
A Fulbright Award gives you the opportunity to teach, research, or study abroad for an academic year after graduation. The process of applying is invaluable and winning the award is a life-changing experience. The Augsburg URGO office provides support to you in the application process, even if you’ve already graduated.
To be eligible and competitive you need to:
– Be a U.S. citizen or national
– Have a 3.0 or higher GPA for serving as an English Teaching Assistant
– Have a 3.5 or higher to conduct research or attend graduate school abroad
– Be an active member in the Augsburg community or your home community
– Have effective skills to adapt to another culture and serve as a cultural ambassador of the U.S. to your host country
If you are a junior, senior, or recent graduate, you would start working on your application this summer. The campus deadline is Friday, September 4, 2026. Winners are announced in Spring 2027 for placement in Fall 2027.
If you would like to learn more, please schedule an appointment with Prof. Jacqui deVries, Augsburg’s Fulbright Program Advisor, by emailing her: devries@ausgburg.edu.
submitted by straub@augsburg.edu
Join us for a special screening of Tangled Roots: A Grief and Hope Ceremony. Devised and created in collaboration with visiting artist Emily Lau, this powerful narrative, performing and visual arts project features a 50-minute filmed performance by eight Schwartz School honors students across all disciplines. Blending themes of loss, remembrance, and hope, Tangled Roots offers a moving and reflective artistic response to the socio-political upheaval experienced by our community this past winter. Devised specifically for the Twin Cities as a response and a gift to the community, this project features all original pieces by Augsburg students, developed under the guidance of artist-in-residence Emily Lau.
Friday, April 24. Reception at 6:30p.m., followed by screening at 7:00 p.m., Sateren Auditorium.
submitted by klawiter@augsburg.edu
Did you know Augsburg is home to a community garden with 65 individual plots for neighbors and 3 student-led communal plots? Does this intrigue you? Does environmental stewardship and radical inclusivity inspire you? Are you interested in learning more or participating? Then you should join the garden committee!!
We are currently looking for students, staff, faculty and community members to be a part of the garden committee to share inspiration, ideas and help make decisions that will shape the future of the garden. We meet once a month for about an hour and a half. For more information, please email Greta at klawiter@augsburg.edu
submitted by yangss7@augsburg.edu
Hello, my name is ShaShee Yang, and I am a Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student at Augsburg University. I am conducting a research study about the internalization of Model Minority Myth stereotypes and their impacts on depressive and anxiety symptoms in Asian-American college students. I would love for you to be a part of the study! The study will consist of a brief demographic survey and three standardized questionnaires asking questions about internalization of the Model Minority Myth, current depressive symptoms, and current anxiety symptoms. The entire survey should take approximately 15 to 30 minutes to complete. To thank you for your participation, upon completing the surveys, you will have the option to enter your information in a raffle for one of two $25 Caribou Coffee gift cards. If you are interested in participating, please contact me at the email address listed below. I appreciate you taking the time to consider being a part of my project. If you have any questions, please contact me at yangss7@augsburg.edu.
submitted by alekna@augsburg.edu
Please join the Augsburg University Education Department as we celebrate two of our student artists. Bella Olson and David Mejia spent last summer and fall designing two large wall paintings that now hang in our office hallway. The students created the art in memorial of our dear colleague, Dr. Jennie Diaz, who sadly passed away in spring 2024. The students used Dr. Diaz’s values as inspiration for the pieces. You can read more about the inspiration and intent for this art installation at the link below.
When? Monday April 27th, 5–6pm
Where? Sverdrup Education Suite
What? Light refreshments will be served. The students will share a few words about their process and we will all gather to remember Dr. Diaz, and to celebrate these beautiful works of art.
Who? Anyone and everyone who wants to celebrate these amazing artists and their beautiful art.
Questions? alekna@augsburg.edu
submitted by adamsc@augsburg.edu
All Augsburg faculty, students, and staff are invited to participate in a Theatre of the Oppressed workshop here on campus in July!
“Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society.” (Augusto Boal, Games for Actors and Non-Actors). Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed is happy to offer this one day workshop on Theatre of the Oppressed, facilitated by PTO Board Member Mark Weinberg from the Center for Applied Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Designed with local participants in mind, this workshop will run on Thursday, July 23 2026, from 1:00-4:30pm CDT at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. We thank Mark for this voluntary service as a board member.
In this workshop participants will be introduced to the techniques used in Theatre of the Oppressed to not only reveal reality as it is, but more importantly to invent reality as it could be. After some basic theory, the first part of the workshop will focus on demechanization, perception, and community building. We will do some exercises (physical reflections on oneself), play some games, and explore how we create together.
The second part of the workshop will introduce Image Theatre – making sculptures with our bodies and dynamizing them to discover the goals, desires, and possibilities within them.
During the last segment of the workshop, we will become spect-actors in a Forum Theatre scene and raise questions about the power of Theatre of the Oppressed to point to the difficulty of challenging systemic oppression and to promote learning for all involved.
The working language of this workshop will be in English.
Augsburg faculty, staff, and students can register at no cost by contacting Charles Adams at adamsc@augsburg.edu.
This event is sponsored by the Theater Department and the Schwartz School of the Arts.
More information on the Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed Conference and Pre-Conference Events
submitted by gebbengn@augsburg.edu
Come see Little Shop of Horrors performed here at Augsburg!
Book by Howard Ashman
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Howard Ashman
Based on the film by Roger Corman, screenplay by Charles Griffith
Directed by Luverne Seifert
A plant that can make dreams come true…
Or is it a mean green monster from outer space?
After a total eclipse of the sun, the meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names “Audrey II” – after his coworker crush. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down and out Krelborn as long as he keeps feeding it, BLOOD. Over time, though, Seymour discovers Audrey II’s out of this world origins and intent towards global domination! A hilarious mashup of science fiction, horror, and musical theater, this nostalgic classic boasts Motown-inspired hits like “Git It,” “Suddenly Seymour,” and “Somewhere That’s Green.”
submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu
Please join us in the Sabo Center on Tuesday, April 28th from Noon to 2pm. The first hour will be presentations of the Community Changemakers projects that staff and faculty have done with East Phillips Neighborhood Institute staff over the past semester. The second hour will be for general merriment and an interactive map activity. Cupcakes will be served. All are welcome to attend.
Sabo Offices, Suite 115 OGC (right across from Nabo Cafe
Noon – Presentations
1:00 pm – General Merriment
Please feel free to stop by at two or after, there is no hard stop.
Email gilmerje@gmail.com with questions.
submitted by hansonjl@augsburg.edu
Emmy Award Winning filmmaker Laurens Grant will be ON-CAMPUS with the powerful new docuseries Hollywood Black. Directed by Justin Simien (Dear White People), this series provides a definitive look at over a century of the African American struggle for representation, both in front of and behind the camera.
Event Information
“Hollywood Black” (Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIlQeQ6Ke4M)
When: Wednesday, April 29th Time: 6pm CST, Snacks and Social Time at 5:30pm
Where: Sateren Auditorium
Parking is available in Lot L.
submitted by alekna@augsburg.edu
Please join the Augsburg University Education Department as we celebrate two of our student artists. Bella Olson and David Mejia spent last summer and fall designing two large wall paintings that now hang in our office hallway. The students created the art in memorial of our dear colleague, Dr. Jennie Diaz, who sadly passed away in spring 2024. The students used Dr. Diaz’s values as inspiration for the pieces. You can read more about the inspiration and intent for this art installation at the link below.
When? Monday April 27th, 5–6pm
Where? Sverdrup Education Suite
What? Light refreshments will be served. The students will share a few words about their process and we will all gather to remember Dr. Diaz, and to celebrate these beautiful works of art.
Who? Anyone and everyone who wants to celebrate these amazing artists and their beautiful art.
Questions? alekna@augsburg.edu
submitted by velamcco@augsburg.edu
Members of the Augsburg Community,
You are invited to participate in a study focusing on the mental health impact of Operation Metro Surge, in which the Department of Homeland Security sent approximately 3000 ICE and Border Control agents to the Twin Cities beginning in December 2025 and officially lasting through mid-February of 2026.
Prof. James Vela-McConnell, in the Department of Sociology here at Augsburg, is conducting an anonymous survey that is intended to further document the impact of this event on our community and ourselves and you are invited to participate. This online survey should take approximately 30 minutes and can be completed at your convenience. At the end of the survey, you will have the opportunity to enter a raffle for one of six $50 gift cards or one of eight $25 gift. Alternatively, the raffle winners may choose to donate the value of their gift card to a local organization working to support immigrant residents of the Twin Cities metro.
To take the survey, check your emails for your invitation to participate or simply click on the link below for the flyer with the link & QR code.
Also, we are hoping to include as many residents of the Twin Cities area as possible in this research on the mental health impact of Operation Metro Surge. Please feel free forward the flyer and invite your local family, friends, neighbors, etc. to participate. In addition to the entire Augsburg community, anyone who lives and/or works in the Twin Cities metro region and is 18 years of age or older may participate.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
submitted by myers@augsburg.edu
Join us on Wednesday April 29th for Chris Dixon’s How We Thrive talk.
Chris Dixon is Augsburg University men’s and women’s track and field head coach as well as the Assistant Athletic Director and Director of Athletic Diversity and Inclusion. Chris has also been a DI college athlete, an entrepreneur, a health and fitness education and wellness consultant, and a dad. Come and hear what Chris has to share about how he thrives in our world.
HOW WE THRIVE: STORIES OF WHAT IT MEANS TO THRIVE – TOGETHER.
Chris Dixon
Wednesday April 29, 2026
12:00 p.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Hoversten Chapel
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Please join us in Hoversten Chapel at Noon for the Interfaith Sending and Reflections with the graduating scholars.
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The Campus Wide Initiative (CWI) Undergraduate Student Survey is designed to help our college understand campus culture and track how we are developing “civic fluency”—the ability to engage effectively with community issues and diverse perspectives.
THIRTY students will win a $50 GIFT CARD. ONE student will win a pair of BEATS STUDIO PRO HEADPHONES.
The survey takes LESS THAN 5 MINUTES to complete.
Undergraduate students, don’t miss out on this opportunity to complete the survey and win!
Campus Wide Initiative Survey – complete for a chance to win a $50 gift card!
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Thó Wiŋ Magazine is looking to publish works of all forms from Augsburg students and faculty. If you have artwork, photography, poetry, short stories, or academic writing you want to see published in Augsburg’s literary arts magazine, please visit thowinmagazine.com/submissions to find out more.
We are looking to include a wide variety of Augsburg community voices, and all submissions are welcome. If you have any questions, reach out to us at twmagazine@augsburg.edu.
Submissions close April 24th at 11:59pm. Multiple submissions are welcome.
Submit here!
thowinmagazine.com/submissions
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The Campus Wide Initiative (CWI) Undergraduate Student Survey is designed to help our college understand campus culture and track how we are developing “civic fluency”—the ability to engage effectively with community issues and diverse perspectives.
THIRTY students will win a $50 GIFT CARD. ONE student will win a pair of BEATS STUDIO PRO HEADPHONES.
The survey takes LESS THAN 5 MINUTES to complete.
Undergraduate students, don’t miss out on this opportunity to complete the survey and win!
Campus Wide Initiative Survey – complete for a chance to win a $50 gift card!
submitted by hansonjl@augsburg.edu
Award-winning director and producer Laurens Grant will be in the Twin Cities April 28th and April 29th.
Tuesday, April 28th
Grant will screen her film “For All Humankind” which takes a deep dive into what space exploration means for society by comparing the parallel events of 1969 and 2020. Civil rights and space may seem disconnected but the intersectional realities are far too familiar.
Event Information
When: Tuesday, April 28, 2026: 5:45 pm Registration and Red Carpet, 6:30 pm Film
Where: Edina Mann Theatre, 3911 W 50th St, Edina, MN 55424
Parking: Free Lots
Get a Ticket: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tcff-screening-of-for-all-humankind-tickets-1987424256451?aff=oddtdtcreator
Wednesday, April 29th
Grant will be ON-CAMPUS with the powerful new docuseries Hollywood Black. Directed by Justin Simien (Dear White People), this series provides a definitive look at over a century of the African American struggle for representation, both in front of and behind the camera.
Event Information
“Hollywood Black” (Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIlQeQ6Ke4M)
When: Wednesday, April 29th Time: 6pm CST, Snacks and Social Time at 5:30pm
Where: Sateren Auditorium
Parking is available in Lot L.
Register for a free TICKET: https://events.hometownticketing.com/boxoffice/augsburg/L2VtYmVkL2V2ZW50LzQ3NQ==
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with one of the industry’s most compelling voices as we explore the past, present, and future of Black Hollywood.
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All Augsburg faculty, students, and staff are invited to participate in a Theatre of the Oppressed workshop here on campus in July!
“Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society.” (Augusto Boal, Games for Actors and Non-Actors). Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed is happy to offer this one day workshop on Theatre of the Oppressed, facilitated by PTO Board Member Mark Weinberg from the Center for Applied Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Designed with local participants in mind, this workshop will run on Thursday, July 23 2026, from 1:00-4:30pm CDT at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. We thank Mark for this voluntary service as a board member.
In this workshop participants will be introduced to the techniques used in Theatre of the Oppressed to not only reveal reality as it is, but more importantly to invent reality as it could be. After some basic theory, the first part of the workshop will focus on demechanization, perception, and community building. We will do some exercises (physical reflections on oneself), play some games, and explore how we create together.
The second part of the workshop will introduce Image Theatre – making sculptures with our bodies and dynamizing them to discover the goals, desires, and possibilities within them.
During the last segment of the workshop, we will become spect-actors in a Forum Theatre scene and raise questions about the power of Theatre of the Oppressed to point to the difficulty of challenging systemic oppression and to promote learning for all involved.
The working language of this workshop will be in English.
Augsburg faculty, staff, and students can register at no cost by contacting Charles Adams at adamsc@augsburg.edu.
This event is sponsored by the Theater Department and the Schwartz School of the Arts.
More information on the Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed Conference and Pre-Conference Events
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The Baccalaureate Service is Sunday, May 3, at 11 am in Hoversten Chapel, Foss Center. The Augsburg Baccalaureate is a Lutheran service of music and word, held for the graduating class, friends, and family, celebrating the completion of graduate’s studies at Augsburg. Graduating students should wear their cap and gown and may sit with their family or guests in any available seats.
Augsburg University Pastor Babette Chatman will give the sermon this year, and we will join with the Trinity Lutheran Congregation that morning. At the end of the Baccalaureate service, graduates will receive a blessing blanket.
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Hi Auggies!
As part of a student research project here at Augsburg, they are conducting a survey regarding minority representation in the 21st century. The survey is brief and only takes a few minutes to complete. All responses are anonymous and greatly appreciated!
Thank you for supporting student-led research!
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The following Augsburg Student positions were posted within the past 7 days:
04/21/2026: Student: PsyD Graduate Research Assistant 26-27
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000122075282-student-psyd-graduate-research-assistant-26-27
04/17/2026: Student: Auggie Admissions Ambassador, 2026-27
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000121516754-student-auggie-admissions-ambassador-2026-27
04/17/2026: Summer Student Research Assistant 2026
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000121506207-summer-student-research-assistant-2026
04/17/2026: Student: Community Garden Assistant 2026
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000121441398-student-community-garden-assistant-2026
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The following Augsburg Staff positions were posted within the past 7 days:
04/15/2026: Limited Term Overnight Lead Public Safety Officer
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ni/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/44fdd8da-26bc-496e-9d44-14b69ac2ce7d-limited-term-overnight-lead-public-safety-officer-
04/15/2026: Head Men’s Hockey Coach
– https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AugsburgUniversity-MinneapolisMN/744000120985107-head-men-s-hockey-coach
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Did you know Augsburg is home to a community garden with 65 individual plots for neighbors and 3 student-led communal plots? Does this intrigue you? Does environmental stewardship and radical inclusivity inspire you? Are you interested in learning more or participating? Then you should join the garden committee!!
We are currently looking for students, staff, faculty and community members to be a part of the garden committee to share inspiration, ideas and help make decisions that will shape the future of the garden. We meet once a month for about an hour and a half. For more information, please email Greta at klawiter@augsburg.edu
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Members of the Augsburg Community,
You are invited to participate in a study focusing on the mental health impact of Operation Metro Surge, in which the Department of Homeland Security sent approximately 3000 ICE and Border Control agents to the Twin Cities beginning in December 2025 and officially lasting through mid-February of 2026.
Prof. James Vela-McConnell, in the Department of Sociology here at Augsburg, is conducting an anonymous survey that is intended to further document the impact of this event on our community and ourselves and you are invited to participate. This online survey should take approximately 30 minutes and can be completed at your convenience. At the end of the survey, you will have the opportunity to enter a raffle for one of six $50 gift cards or one of eight $25 gift. Alternatively, the raffle winners may choose to donate the value of their gift card to a local organization working to support immigrant residents of the Twin Cities metro.
To take the survey, check your emails for your invitation to participate or simply click on the link below for the flyer with the link & QR code.
Also, we are hoping to include as many residents of the Twin Cities area as possible in this research on the mental health impact of Operation Metro Surge. Please feel free forward the flyer and invite your local family, friends, neighbors, etc. to participate. In addition to the entire Augsburg community, anyone who lives and/or works in the Twin Cities metro region and is 18 years of age or older may participate.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
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Please join us in Hoversten Chapel at 11:50 am for Princess Flomo’s senior chapel service. Senior chapels are an opportunity for students to share about their experiences at Augsburg.
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Join us on Wednesday April 29th for Chris Dixon’s rescheduled How We Thrive talk.
Chris Dixon is Augsburg University men’s and women’s track and field head coach as well as the Assistant Athletic Director and Director of Athletic Diversity and Inclusion. Chris has also been a DI college athlete, an entrepreneur, a health and fitness education and wellness consultant, and a dad. Come and hear what Chris has to share about how he thrives in our world.
HOW WE THRIVE: STORIES OF WHAT IT MEANS TO THRIVE – TOGETHER.
Chris Dixon
Wednesday April 29, 2026
12:00 p.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Hoversten Chapel
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Starting Thursday, April 23, 2026 you will see moodle courses from past academic years having an [ARCHIVE] designation in their titles. This designation defines them as “archived web content” for compliance with ADA Title II and HHS Section 504 regulations.
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Join us for a special screening of Tangled Roots: A Grief and Hope Ceremony. Devised and created in collaboration with visiting artist Emily Lau, this powerful narrative, performing and visual arts project features a 50-minute filmed performance by eight Schwartz School honors students across all disciplines. Blending themes of loss, remembrance, and hope, Tangled Roots offers a moving and reflective artistic response to the socio-political upheaval experienced by our community this past winter. Devised specifically for the Twin Cities as a response and a gift to the community, this project features all original pieces by Augsburg students, developed under the guidance of artist-in-residence Emily Lau.
Friday, April 24. Reception at 6:30p.m., followed by screening at 7:00 p.m., Sateren Auditorium.
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As we near the end of another year please don’t forget to take care of your campus mailbox. This includes checking it for any mail, returning your lock and filing out the survey for what you would like us to do with your mail after this semester.
One weeks after the spring semester ends (on May 15, 2025) we will close all student campus boxes unless you responded to the End of Year survey. If you would like your mail forwarded or would like to keep your mailbox open for the summer, please fill out the form
(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeA6NyaiFZI2pFW_1SD6hEHCflfjaZ00b1ZRyzbqLNKp78SXA/viewform?usp=header).
Before the fall semester starts we will reassign campus boxes to all residential students. Without completing the survey, it will most likely be a different number.
We are only able to forward 1st Class USPS mail. Packages must be looked at case by case. Some USPS will allow forwarding. (Reply to the Augsburg package email and we will look at that package.) Other packages (UPS, FedEx, Amazon, etc.), magazines, non-profit mail and standard mail will not be forwarded. We can also only forward to USA addresses. The forwarding period for the Augsburg Mailroom is two months from when the request is submitted. Afterward any additional mail we receive will be returned to sender.
We request that you contact the people/business sending you mail and update your address with them. Augsburg is classified as a business so you will not be able to do so through the US Post Office itself. Enrolling in online/electronic bills or statements can also be a smart option, it is environmentally friendly, secure and will often save you time (and sometimes money). Asking us to forward your mail does not change your mailing address with the USPS or Augsburg University, just with the Mailroom.
