Category: Teaching and Learning

submitted by greenfie@augsburg.edu

The Writing Center will open for the Spring semester on Monday, February 3rd. We look forward to seeing you there!

The Augsburg Writing Center offers free writing support, both online and in-person. Skilled Augsburg students will work with you one-on-one at whatever stage of writing you are in – the idea-development stage, the drafting stage, and the revision stage – and can show you how to choose an appropriate essay topic, how to develop a thesis statement and paragraphs, how to revise your essay, or assist with any other writing needs you may have. Tutors will be alert listeners and ask questions, and will not judge or evaluate the work in progress. For more information, please visit our website. We look forward to seeing you!

Located on the second floor (across from Advising) of the Lindell Library

In-Person Hours (stop by anytime, no appointment needed):

Monday: 2:00-8:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 2:00-8:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 2:00-8:00 p.m.
Thursday: 2:00-8:00 p.m.
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Online (appointment needed): Sunday-Thursday 6-8 p.m.

https://sites.augsburg.edu/writingcenter/

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Award season has started! Celebrate the achievements and contributions of your colleagues and professors. Nominations for the 2025 Faculty Distinguished Contribution Awards are open now through March 10.

There are 6 award categories: Scholarship, Service to the University, Service to the Community, Teaching: Adjunct or Part-time, Teaching: Full-time 5+ years, and Teaching: Full-time 5 years or less. Any members of the Augsburg community can serve as nominators.
Please find full descriptions and nomination forms linked below. Honor a faculty member with your nomination!

Faculty Distinguished Contribution Awards

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Webinar: Feb 4, 22025 1 to 2 pm

Title: Finding Your Footing in Joy: A Starting Point for Belonging in 2025

Presenters:
Dr. Karlyn Crowley, Provost, Ohio Wesleyan University
Dr. Jay Roberts, Provost and Dean of Faculty, Warren Wilson College
Dr. Marlowe V.N. Washington, Vice President of People, Culture, and Equity, Holyoke Community College

Description: Register for our first Belong webinar of 2025 for a lively discussion on well-being, hope and inspiration! You’ll hear from a panel of leaders and experts about what self-care looks like in this moment and how they ground themselves as a first step in the work to promote belonging.

Webinar Registration

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Please join the eLearning team & CTL for a workshop on “Current AI Resources: Integration and Detection” on February 12, 12:30 to 1:30 pm. In this workshop, we will explore options in Moodle for tracking AI usage. We will also discuss how to integrate AI into assignments at various levels (from no AI use to full exploration of AI) and establish expectations for AI use in the classroom.

Facilitators: eLearning Team: Shane Sletten, Susan Hadjiyanis, Nathan Lind, Jad Habib
Location: Marshall Room

Current AI Resources Registration

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Award season has started! Celebrate the achievements and contributions of your colleagues and professors. Nominations for the 2025 Faculty Distinguished Contribution Awards are open now through March 10.

There are 6 award categories: Scholarship, Service to the University, Service to the Community, Teaching: Adjunct or Part-time, Teaching: Full-time 5+ years, and Teaching: Full-time 5 years or less. Any members of the Augsburg community can serve as nominators.
Please find full descriptions and nomination forms linked below. Honor a faculty member with your nomination!

Faculty Distinguished Contribution Awards

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Webinar: Feb 4, 22025 1 to 2 pm

Title: Finding Your Footing in Joy: A Starting Point for Belonging in 2025

Presenters:
Dr. Karlyn Crowley, Provost, Ohio Wesleyan University
Dr. Jay Roberts, Provost and Dean of Faculty, Warren Wilson College
Dr. Marlowe V.N. Washington, Vice President of People, Culture, and Equity, Holyoke Community College

Description: Register for our first Belong webinar of 2025 for a lively discussion on well-being, hope and inspiration! You’ll hear from a panel of leaders and experts about what self-care looks like in this moment and how they ground themselves as a first step in the work to promote belonging.

Webinar Registration

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Please join the eLearning team & CTL for a workshop on “Current AI Resources: Integration and Detection” on February 12, 12:30 to 1:30 pm. In this workshop, we will explore options in Moodle for tracking AI usage. We will also discuss how to integrate AI into assignments at various levels (from no AI use to full exploration of AI) and establish expectations for AI use in the classroom.

Facilitators: eLearning Team: Shane Sletten, Susan Hadjiyanis, Nathan Lind, Jad Habib
Location: Marshall Room

Current AI Resources Registration

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Award season has started! Celebrate the achievements and contributions of your colleagues and professors. Nominations for the 2025 Faculty Distinguished Contribution Awards are open now through March 10.

There are 6 award categories: Scholarship, Service to the University, Service to the Community, Teaching: Adjunct or Part-time, Teaching: Full-time 5+ years, and Teaching: Full-time 5 years or less. Any members of the Augsburg community can serve as nominators.
Please find full descriptions and nomination forms linked below. Honor a faculty member with your nomination!

Faculty Distinguished Contribution Awards

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Please join the eLearning team & CTL for a workshop on “Current AI Resources: Integration and Detection” on February 12, 12:30 to 1:30 pm. In this workshop, we will explore options in Moodle for tracking AI usage. We will also discuss how to integrate AI into assignments at various levels (from no AI use to full exploration of AI) and establish expectations for AI use in the classroom.

Facilitators: eLearning Team: Shane Sletten, Susan Hadjiyanis, Nathan Lind, Jad Habib
Location: Marshall Room

Current AI Resources Registration

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Webinar: Feb 4, 22025 1 to 2 pm

Title: Finding Your Footing in Joy: A Starting Point for Belonging in 2025

Presenters:
Dr. Karlyn Crowley, Provost, Ohio Wesleyan University
Dr. Jay Roberts, Provost and Dean of Faculty, Warren Wilson College
Dr. Marlowe V.N. Washington, Vice President of People, Culture, and Equity, Holyoke Community College

Description: Register for our first Belong webinar of 2025 for a lively discussion on well-being, hope and inspiration! You’ll hear from a panel of leaders and experts about what self-care looks like in this moment and how they ground themselves as a first step in the work to promote belonging.

Webinar Registration

submitted by goffe@augsburg.edu

URGO SUMMER RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY PROGRAM: All disciplines welcome!
Phase 1 of the applications are due February 17th at 11:59 PM, so start talking with your faculty members to learn about what research or creative activity is going on in your department!

The URGO Summer Research/Creative Activity Program is an 11-week, on-campus program (May 19th – August 1st) where students are funded to conduct research with a faculty mentor. URGO provides full-time summer researchers (400 hours) with a $6,000 stipend and housing discount while half-time researchers (200 hours) receive a $3,000 stipend and a housing discount.

URGO SUMMER RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY ASSISTANTSHIPS
URGO also provides funding for students to work for a professor as a research assistant on an ongoing research project. This is a 100-hour commitment over the course of the summer and comes with a $1,500 stipend. This is an excellent opportunity to try out research for the first time or focus on a specific aspect of a research project.
If you have questions, email urgo@augsburg.edu or visit the link below.

URGO Summer Research Info and Application

submitted by hadjiyanis@augsburg.edu

Welcome back to Spring Semester!

The beginning of the semester is a good time to start organizing your Gradebook for the term.

Did you know that:

1. You can add a manual item to your gradebook without creating a separate activity.
2. Forums don’t automatically show in the gradebook.
3.There is an easy way to add extra credit to your course/gradebook.

Learn how to use all of the Moodle Gradebook functions in the new course created by your eLearning team called “Moodle Basics”.

Remember, if you need any Moodle related support, please feel free to reach out at any time!

Your eLearning team,

Susan, Jad, Shane, Nathan

Reach us at hadjiyanis@augsburg.edu or academiclfc@augsburg.edu

Moodle Basics – Gradebook

submitted by hadjiyanis@augsburg.edu

Greetings Faculty!

As the semester begins and you build out your courses we would like to remind you that there is a new resource available to you that will help with all of your Moodle needs.

Moodle Basics: This is an asynchronous, online course that will help you get trained in how to use many functions of Moodle, including overall structure, communications, resources, activities, and gradebook. You are free to also refer back to this course at any time for any questions you may have regarding the above functions.

You can access this course by logging into Moodle, pressing Dashboard from the primary toolbar, and then locating “Moodle Support” under My courses.

As always, if you need any technology related support, we are here to support you.

Your eLearning team,

Susan, Jad, Shane, Nathan

For additional help, contact your Academic Technologist (LFC) at academiclfc@augsburg.edu or your Instructional Design Technologist at hadjiyanis@augsburg.edu.

Moodle Basics

submitted by devries@augsburg.edu

Free Trip to Holocaust Museum

Applications due February 3, 2025 and can be found at https://jewishminneapolis.org/minne/.

The trip will take place on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. If you would like to learn more about the
program or would like advising on the application, please contact the URGO office
at urgo@augsburg.edu. The MINNE Holocaust Fellows program selects college students to participate in a fully-paid, one-day trip to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. to acquire a more in-depth knowledge of the Holocaust. Fellows tour the permanent exhibits and featured exhibits, as well as meet with a museum representative. Awards come through the MINNE Fund of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, who has chosen Augsburg to be one of the select universities to participate in the program.
*You DO NOT need to be a US citizen*
Eligibility:
• Full-time student
• Sophomore or above with at least one year left before graduating
• 3.0 GPA or higher
• Proof of COVID vaccinations may be required

submitted by starckl@augsburg.edu

There’s still time to apply for a short-term study abroad experience in the Netherlands during Summer Term 1!

You’ll earn eight credits (4 in sociology / urban studies, and 4 in English) in just one month. You’ll spend two weeks on campus and two weeks in Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

Check out the description below:

Although many of us may be feeling fear or despair about the global climate crisis and our ability to address problems such as rising sea levels, global warming, and persistent inequalities, this study-abroad experience centers on imagination, invention, tangible change, and hope for our collective future. In our on-campus class sessions and our two weeks in the Netherlands, we’ll discuss sustainability challenges such as energy, water, food, waste and pollution, housing, and transportation. Then we’ll explore the ways in which artists, scientists, and other creative minds have addressed those challenges in fiction, poetry, policies, and practices in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. How can speculative literature and sociology help us invent and imagine new solutions to urban problems? What ideas from Rotterdam and Amsterdam might be implemented in the Twin Cities? What kinds of futures can we imagine for our rapidly changing world, and how do we transform those visions into a new reality?

Learn more and apply here!

submitted by philldal@augsburg.edu

URGO SUMMER RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY PROGRAM: All disciplines welcome!
Phase 1 of the applications are due February 17th at 11:59 PM, so start talking with your faculty members to learn about what research or creative activity is going on in your department!

The URGO Summer Research/Creative Activity Program is an 11-week, on-campus program (May 19th – August 1st) where students are funded to conduct research with a faculty mentor. URGO provides full-time summer researchers (400 hours) with a $6,000 stipend and housing discount while half-time researchers (200 hours) receive a $3,000 stipend and a housing discount.

URGO SUMMER RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY ASSISTANTSHIPS
URGO also provides funding for students to work for a professor as a research assistant on an ongoing research project. This is a 100-hour commitment over the course of the summer and comes with a $1,500 stipend. This is an excellent opportunity to try out research for the first time or focus on a specific aspect of a research project.
If you have questions, email urgo@augsburg.edu or visit the link below.

URGO Summer Research Info and Application

submitted by mouakao@augsburg.edu

This year marks 50 years since the first wave of Hmong families were resettled in the US in 1975, following US military intervention in Southeast Asia.

Join us for a study abroad in Thailand and Laos to explore the impact of war, migration, and resettlement on Hmong individuals and communities from a transnational perspective. We will learn how communities are rebuilding their lives in Thailand and Laos, making visible the historical connection and lasting impact between globalization, climate change, and the ecological destruction caused by war.

Key highlights of the study abroad include a homestay with Hmong families in Mae Sa Mai village in Chiang Mai, learning from elders in KM 52 village in Vientiane, and visiting the site of Ban Vinai Refugee Camp.

More information: https://studyabroad.augsburg.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=55829

Contact: Professors Kao Nou Moua (mouakao@augsburg.edu) or Ly Nguyen (nguyenl2@augsburg.edu)

submitted by starckl@augsburg.edu

There’s still time to apply for a short-term study abroad experience in the Netherlands during Summer Term 1!

You’ll earn eight credits (4 in sociology / urban studies, and 4 in English) in just one month. You’ll spend two weeks on campus and two weeks in Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

Check out the description below:

Although many of us may be feeling fear or despair about the global climate crisis and our ability to address problems such as rising sea levels, global warming, and persistent inequalities, this study-abroad experience centers on imagination, invention, tangible change, and hope for our collective future. In our on-campus class sessions and our two weeks in the Netherlands, we’ll discuss sustainability challenges such as energy, water, food, waste and pollution, housing, and transportation. Then we’ll explore the ways in which artists, scientists, and other creative minds have addressed those challenges in fiction, poetry, policies, and practices in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. How can speculative literature and sociology help us invent and imagine new solutions to urban problems? What ideas from Rotterdam and Amsterdam might be implemented in the Twin Cities? What kinds of futures can we imagine for our rapidly changing world, and how do we transform those visions into a new reality?

Learn more and apply here!

submitted by devries@augsburg.edu

Free Trip to Holocaust Museum

Applications due February 3, 2025 and can be found at https://jewishminneapolis.org/minne/.

The trip will take place on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. If you would like to learn more about the
program or would like advising on the application, please contact the URGO office
at urgo@augsburg.edu. The MINNE Holocaust Fellows program selects college students to participate in a fully-paid, one-day trip to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. to acquire a more in-depth knowledge of the Holocaust. Fellows tour the permanent exhibits and featured exhibits, as well as meet with a museum representative. Awards come through the MINNE Fund of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, who has chosen Augsburg to be one of the select universities to participate in the program.
*You DO NOT need to be a US citizen*
Eligibility:
• Full-time student
• Sophomore or above with at least one year left before graduating
• 3.0 GPA or higher
• Proof of COVID vaccinations may be required

submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu

Court watching is a tactic to raise public awareness about our current legal system and also to hold the system accountable through witnessing, documenting, and sharing out. This is a powerful and critical tool for organizing because so much harm is never witnessed and then goes unchecked! Court watching is a tool of PEOPLE POWER against those in power!

MN Freedom Fund’s court watching program specifically watches bail hearings in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties. We are hoping to raise awareness about the injustices and disparities in this specific legal system moment. We want to establish a regular presence in court to hold the system players accountable and inspire more passion for local pre-trial changes! This training will be on how to court watch with MFF and then we’ll have shifts for you to sign up for right away!

No prior experience needed!

Sign up here!

submitted by velamcco@augsburg.edu

Looking for a cool course to round out your schedule this spring? Consider taking Cultures of Violence (SOC 290)!

Street gangs and warfare. Police brutality and genocide. Domestic abuse and riots. What are the dynamics underlying these and other forms of violence? What do they have in common? How do they differ? This course takes violence in its many forms as a topic for sociological analysis. With this in mind, we will learn about the underlying social, interactional, group, and institutional dynamics that lead to violent behavior. In addition to the topics noted above, the course covers gender & violence, intergroup conflict, war propaganda, hate crime, the military-industrial complex, and so much more.

Cultures of Violence is scheduled for MWF, 1:50 – 3:00 p.m. It won’t be available again for two years, so register now!

Here’s what students are saying about it:

“This course is the definition of amazing and I honestly wish I could take it again. I would recommend this class to anyone, whether interested in sociology or not. I believe that anyone would fall in love and benefit from taking this course.”

“I loved this course! James is an incredible professor and I’ve always deeply enjoyed his classes. SOC 290 gave me a whole new perspective on sociology, violence, and culture. I am grateful I took this class!”

“[Prof.] James has always been and will forever be one of the most amazing professors I have had during my time at Augsburg. I always feel challenged, supported, and respected during his classes.”

Source: SOC 290 course evaluations, Spring 2023

submitted by velamcco@augsburg.edu

Looking for a cool course to round out your schedule this spring? Consider taking Cultures of Violence (SOC 290)!

Street gangs and warfare. Police brutality and genocide. Domestic abuse and riots. What are the dynamics underlying these and other forms of violence? What do they have in common? How do they differ? This course takes violence in its many forms as a topic for sociological analysis. With this in mind, we will learn about the underlying social, interactional, group, and institutional dynamics that lead to violent behavior. In addition to the topics noted above, the course covers gender & violence, intergroup conflict, war propaganda, hate crime, the military-industrial complex, and so much more.

Cultures of Violence is scheduled for MWF, 1:50 – 3:00 p.m. It won’t be available again for two years, so register now!

Here’s what students are saying about it:

“This course is the definition of amazing and I honestly wish I could take it again. I would recommend this class to anyone, whether interested in sociology or not. I believe that anyone would fall in love and benefit from taking this course.”

“I loved this course! James is an incredible professor and I’ve always deeply enjoyed his classes. SOC 290 gave me a whole new perspective on sociology, violence, and culture. I am grateful I took this class!”

“[Prof.] James has always been and will forever be one of the most amazing professors I have had during my time at Augsburg. I always feel challenged, supported, and respected during his classes.”

Source: SOC 290 course evaluations, Spring 2023

submitted by velamcco@augsburg.edu

Looking for a cool course to round out your schedule this spring? Consider taking Cultures of Violence (SOC 290)!

Street gangs and warfare. Police brutality and genocide. Domestic abuse and riots. What are the dynamics underlying these and other forms of violence? What do they have in common? How do they differ? This course takes violence in its many forms as a topic for sociological analysis. With this in mind, we will learn about the underlying social, interactional, group, and institutional dynamics that lead to violent behavior. In addition to the topics noted above, the course covers gender & violence, intergroup conflict, war propaganda, hate crime, the military-industrial complex, and so much more.

Cultures of Violence is scheduled for MWF, 1:50 – 3:00 p.m. It won’t be available again for two years, so register now!

Here’s what students are saying about it:

“This course is the definition of amazing and I honestly wish I could take it again. I would recommend this class to anyone, whether interested in sociology or not. I believe that anyone would fall in love and benefit from taking this course.”

“I loved this course! James is an incredible professor and I’ve always deeply enjoyed his classes. SOC 290 gave me a whole new perspective on sociology, violence, and culture. I am grateful I took this class!”

“[Prof.] James has always been and will forever be one of the most amazing professors I have had during my time at Augsburg. I always feel challenged, supported, and respected during his classes.”

Source: SOC 290 course evaluations, Spring 2023

submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu

The Sabo Center is hosting a reading group for the 2021 book, Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira.

This book helps us learn how to:
Reimagine how we respond to crisis and relearn how to interact with difference, uncertainty, complexity, and failure
Expand our capacity to hold personal and collective space for pain and grief
Interrupt our satisfaction with modern-colonial desires that cause harm
Create space for change that isn’t driven by desperate hope or a fear of desolate hopelessness

We’re tentatively planning to gather the week of February 17th, the first full week of March, the week of March 24th, April 7th and 28th.

Please know that space is limited, we cannot guarantee a place for everyone. Email Jenean Gilmer (gilmerje@augsburg.edu) with any questions. To express interest, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/rpr9j5E3N5s8AByw7

https://forms.gle/rpr9j5E3N5s8AByw7

submitted by velamcco@augsburg.edu

Looking for a cool course to round out your schedule this spring? Consider taking Cultures of Violence (SOC 290)!

Street gangs and warfare. Police brutality and genocide. Domestic abuse and riots. What are the dynamics underlying these and other forms of violence? What do they have in common? How do they differ? This course takes violence in its many forms as a topic for sociological analysis. With this in mind, we will learn about the underlying social, interactional, group, and institutional dynamics that lead to violent behavior. In addition to the topics noted above, the course covers gender & violence, intergroup conflict, war propaganda, hate crime, the military-industrial complex, and more.

Cultures of Violence is scheduled for MWF, 1:50 – 3:00 p.m. It won’t be available again for two years, so register now!

Here’s what students are saying about it:

“This course is the definition of amazing and I honestly wish I could take it again. I would recommend this class to anyone, whether interested in sociology or not. I believe that anyone would fall in love and benefit from taking this course.”

“I loved this course! James is an incredible professor and I’ve always deeply enjoyed his classes. SOC 290 gave me a whole new perspective on sociology, violence, and culture. I am grateful I took this class!”

“[Prof.] James has always been and will forever be one of the most amazing professors I have had during my time at Augsburg. I always feel challenged, supported, and respected during his classes.”

Source: SOC 290 course evaluations, Spring 2023

submitted by premob@augsburg.edu

Using Social Work Case Vignettes to Prepare for Your Licensing Exam (Student Series Webinar)

Tonight! Thursday, January 16, 2025

From 6-7:30pm ET. FREE for all!

All social work students are invited to kick off the new year with the NASW’s Students Series! Join us to network, expand your skill set, as well as explore clinical case studies with author and professor Liz Johnson. We will use social work practice examples as a fundamental tool for developing “practice wisdom,” the intuitive understanding of client dynamics and core issues in a case.

One attendee will win a free copy of Dr. Johnson’s newest book, 80 Clinical Vignettes for Test Taking, Licensing Exam Prep, and Practical Applications. This collection of 80 real-world-based clinical vignettes offers a diverse range of clinical counseling cases, covering all the major DSM-5-TR diagnostic categories.

Registration link below

http://www.socialworkers.org/studentevents

submitted by starckl@augsburg.edu

There’s still time to apply for “Another Future Is Possible”: a short-term study abroad experience in the Netherlands during Summer Term 1.

You’ll earn eight credits (4 in sociology / urban studies, and 4 in English) in just one month: two weeks on campus, and two weeks abroad.

Check out the description below:

Although many of us may be feeling fear or despair about the global climate crisis and our ability to address problems such as rising sea levels, global warming, and persistent inequalities, this study-abroad experience centers on imagination, invention, tangible change, and hope for our collective future. In our on-campus class sessions and our two weeks in the Netherlands, we’ll discuss sustainability challenges such as energy, water, food, waste and pollution, housing, and transportation. Then we’ll explore the ways in which artists, scientists, and other creative minds have addressed those challenges in fiction, poetry, policies, and practices in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. How can speculative literature and sociology help us invent and imagine new solutions to urban problems? What ideas from Rotterdam and Amsterdam might be implemented in the Twin Cities? What kinds of futures can we imagine for our rapidly changing world, and how do we transform those visions into a new reality?

Learn more and apply here!

submitted by velamcco@augsburg.edu

Looking for a cool course to round out your schedule this spring? Consider taking Cultures of Violence (SOC 290)!

Street gangs and warfare. Police brutality and genocide. Domestic abuse and riots. What are the dynamics underlying these and other forms of violence? What do they have in common? How do they differ? This course takes violence in its many forms as a topic for sociological analysis. With this in mind, we will learn about the underlying social, interactional, group, and institutional dynamics that lead to violent behavior. In addition to the topics noted above, the course covers gender & violence, intergroup conflict, war propaganda, hate crime, the military-industrial complex, and more.

Cultures of Violence is scheduled for MWF, 1:50 – 3:00 p.m. It won’t be available again for two years, so register now!

Here’s what students are saying about it:

“This course is the definition of amazing and I honestly wish I could take it again. I would recommend this class to anyone, whether interested in sociology or not. I believe that anyone would fall in love and benefit from taking this course.”

“I loved this course! James is an incredible professor and I’ve always deeply enjoyed his classes. SOC 290 gave me a whole new perspective on sociology, violence, and culture. I am grateful I took this class!”

“[Prof.] James has always been and will forever be one of the most amazing professors I have had during my time at Augsburg. I always feel challenged, supported, and respected during his classes.”

Source: SOC 290 course evaluations, Spring 2023

submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu

The Sabo Center is hosting a reading group for the 2021 book, Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira.

This book helps us learn how to:
– Reimagine how we respond to crisis and relearn how to interact with difference, uncertainty, complexity, and failure
– Expand our capacity to hold personal and collective space for pain and grief
– Interrupt our satisfaction with modern-colonial desires that cause harm
– Create space for change that isn’t driven by desperate hope or a fear of desolate hopelessness

We’re tentatively planning to gather the week of February 17th, the first full week of March, the week of March 24th, April 7th and 28th.

Please know that space is limited, we cannot guarantee a place for everyone. Email Jenean Gilmer (gilmerje@augsburg.edu) with any questions.

To express interest, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/rpr9j5E3N5s8AByw7

https://forms.gle/rpr9j5E3N5s8AByw7

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Award season has started! Celebrate the achievements and contributions of your colleagues and professors. Nominations for the 2025 Faculty Distinguished Contribution Awards are open now through March 10.

There are 6 award categories: Scholarship, Service to the University, Service to the Community, Teaching: Adjunct or Part-time, Teaching: Full-time 5+ years, and Teaching: Full-time 5 years or less. Any members of the Augsburg community can serve as nominators.
Please find full descriptions and nomination forms linked below. Honor a faculty member with your nomination!

Faculty Distinguished Contribution Awards

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

As faculty finalize preparations for Spring 2025 courses, you are encouraged to review the Spring 2025 updated syllabus template for support in developing learner-centered syllabi and classroom policies.

Please recall all syllabi are required to include a Title IX statement.
It is recommended that all syllabi also include a FERPA statement. A model is provided.

All resources are available on the CTL homepage linked below.

Spring 2025 Syllabus Resources

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Moodle Essentials Zoom Workshop, January 15, 10-11 am

Intended as an interactive complement to the Moodle Basics online course, this Zoom session will introduce you to the tools needed to be proficient at Moodle as an Augsburg instructor. This interactive session will acquaint you with some best practices of online course design and delivery.

Facilitator: Shane Sletten, Elearning

https://augsburg.zoom.us/j/94647647358

Moodle Essentials Workshop Zoom Link

submitted by premob@augsburg.edu

Using Social Work Case Vignettes to Prepare for Your Licensing Exam (Student Series Webinar)

Thursday, January 16, 2025

From 6-7:30pm ET. FREE for all!

All social work students are invited to kick off the new year with the NASW’s Students Series! Join us to network, expand your skill set, as well as explore clinical case studies with author and professor Liz Johnson. We will use social work practice examples as a fundamental tool for developing “practice wisdom,” the intuitive understanding of client dynamics and core issues in a case.

One attendee will win a free copy of Dr. Johnson’s newest book, 80 Clinical Vignettes for Test Taking, Licensing Exam Prep, and Practical Applications. This collection of 80 real-world-based clinical vignettes offers a diverse range of clinical counseling cases, covering all the major DSM-5-TR diagnostic categories.

Registration link below

http://www.socialworkers.org/studentevents

submitted by starckl@augsburg.edu

There’s still time to apply for “Another Future Is Possible”: a short-term study abroad experience in the Netherlands during Summer Term 1.

You’ll earn eight credits (4 in sociology / urban studies, and 4 in English) in just one month: two weeks on campus, and two weeks abroad.

Check out the description below:

Although many of us may be feeling fear or despair about the global climate crisis and our ability to address problems such as rising sea levels, global warming, and persistent inequalities, this study-abroad experience centers on imagination, invention, tangible change, and hope for our collective future. In our on-campus class sessions and our two weeks in the Netherlands, we’ll discuss sustainability challenges such as energy, water, food, waste and pollution, housing, and transportation. Then we’ll explore the ways in which artists, scientists, and other creative minds have addressed those challenges in fiction, poetry, policies, and practices in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. How can speculative literature and sociology help us invent and imagine new solutions to urban problems? What ideas from Rotterdam and Amsterdam might be implemented in the Twin Cities? What kinds of futures can we imagine for our rapidly changing world, and how do we transform those visions into a new reality?

Learn more and apply here!

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Moodle Essentials Zoom Workshop, January 15, 10-11 am

Intended as an interactive complement to the Moodle Basics online course, this Zoom session will introduce you to the tools needed to be proficient at Moodle as an Augsburg instructor. This interactive session will acquaint you with some best practices of online course design and delivery.

Facilitator: Shane Sletten, Elearning

https://augsburg.zoom.us/j/94647647358

Moodle Essentials Workshop Zoom Link

submitted by velamcco@augsburg.edu

Looking for a cool course to round out your schedule this spring? Consider taking Cultures of Violence (SOC 290)!

Street gangs and warfare. Police brutality and genocide. Domestic abuse and riots. What are the dynamics underlying these and other forms of violence? What do they have in common? How do they differ? This course takes violence in its many forms as a topic for sociological analysis. With this in mind, we will learn about the underlying social, interactional, group, and institutional dynamics that lead to violent behavior. In addition to the topics noted above, the course covers gender & violence, intergroup conflict, war propaganda, hate crime, the military-industrial complex, and more.

Cultures of Violence is scheduled for MWF, 1:50 – 3:00 p.m. It won’t be available again for two years, so register now!

Here’s what students are saying about it:

“This course is the definition of amazing and I honestly wish I could take it again. I would recommend this class to anyone, whether interested in sociology or not. I believe that anyone would fall in love and benefit from taking this course.”

“I loved this course! James is an incredible professor and I’ve always deeply enjoyed his classes. SOC 290 gave me a whole new perspective on sociology, violence, and culture. I am grateful I took this class!”

“[Prof.] James has always been and will forever be one of the most amazing professors I have had during my time at Augsburg. I always feel challenged, supported, and respected during his classes.”

Source: SOC 290 course evaluations, Spring 2023

submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu

The Sabo Center is hosting a reading group for the 2021 book, Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira.

This book helps us learn how to:
Reimagine how we respond to crisis and relearn how to interact with difference, uncertainty, complexity, and failure
Expand our capacity to hold personal and collective space for pain and grief
Interrupt our satisfaction with modern-colonial desires that cause harm
Create space for change that isn’t driven by desperate hope or a fear of desolate hopelessness

We’re tentatively planning to gather the week of February 17th, the first full week of March, the week of March 24th, April 7th and 28th.

Please know that space is limited, we cannot guarantee a place for everyone. Email Jenean Gilmer (gilmerje@augsburg.edu) with any questions. To express interest, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/rpr9j5E3N5s8AByw7

https://forms.gle/rpr9j5E3N5s8AByw7

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Award season has started! Celebrate the achievements and contributions of your colleagues and professors. Nominations for the 2025 Faculty Distinguished Contribution Awards are open now through March 10.

There are 6 award categories: Scholarship, Service to the University, Service to the Community, Teaching: Adjunct or Part-time, Teaching: Full-time 5+ years, and Teaching: Full-time 5 years or less. Any members of the Augsburg community can serve as nominators.
Please find full descriptions and nomination forms linked below. Honor a faculty member with your nomination!

Faculty Distinguished Contribution Awards

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

As faculty finalize preparations for Spring 2025 courses, you are encouraged to review the Spring 2025 updated syllabus template for support in developing learner-centered syllabi and classroom policies.

Please recall all syllabi are required to include a Title IX statement.
It is recommended that all syllabi also include a FERPA statement. A model is provided.

All resources are available on the CTL homepage linked below.

Spring 2025 Syllabus Resources

submitted by premob@augsburg.edu

All social work students are invited on 1/16/2025 from 6-7:30pm ET to network, expand your skillset, as well as explore clinical case studies with author and professor Liz Johnson. We will use practice examples as a fundamental tool for developing “practice wisdom.”

Registration link below

http://www.socialworkers.org/studentevents

submitted by mouakao@augsburg.edu

This year marks 50 years since the first wave of Hmong families were resettled in the US in 1975, following US military intervention in Southeast Asia.

Join us for a study abroad in Thailand and Laos to explore the impact of war, migration, and resettlement on Hmong individuals and communities from a transnational perspective. We will learn how communities are rebuilding their lives in Thailand and Laos, making visible the historical connection and lasting impact between globalization, climate change, and the ecological destruction caused by war.

Key highlights of the study abroad include a homestay with Hmong families in Mae Sa Mai village in Chiang Mai, learning from elders in KM 52 village in Vientiane, and visiting the site of Ban Vinai Refugee Camp.

More information: https://studyabroad.augsburg.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=55829

Contact: Professors Kao Nou Moua (mouakao@augsburg.edu) or Ly Nguyen (nguyenl2@augsburg.edu)

submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu

CUMU Open House (virtual)
January 14, 2025
2:00 pm EST – 3:00 pm EST

Augsburg University is an active member of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities! Join CUMU for an Open House to learn about new programming opportunities and how to get more involved with CUMU in 2025.

Learn about:
A new webinar series focused on student success
Anchor Learning Network (ALN): A cohort-based learning community that builds both individual capacity for anchor work and also connects your campus with this powerful network. During the nine-month program, small cohorts of peers selected through an application process engage in a structured set of professional development opportunities for learning, skill-building, and networking in support of their institution’s anchor mission.
Huddles to learn and share about effective practices with other CUMU members in:
Community-Engaged Research: Explore key frameworks and ideas within the context of participants’ community-engaged research projects, campuses, and communities
Latine Student Communities: Learn what drives Latine student success and develop a toolkit to support our collective efforts
Strategic Communications: Discover ways to align communications with strategic priorities and collaborate with communication professionals on our campus
Sustainability and the Anchor Mission: Explore a variety of lenses for thinking about sustainability efforts and long-term regional impacts
Metropolitan Universities Journal (MUJ): CUMU’s peer-reviewed, open-access journal for scholarship related to the issues you see on your urban and metropolitan campuses.
Research Initiatives and much more!

REGISTER HERE

REGISTER HERE

submitted by starckl@augsburg.edu

There’s still time to apply for “Another Future Is Possible”: a short-term study abroad experience in the Netherlands during Summer Term 1.

You’ll earn eight credits (4 in sociology / urban studies, and 4 in English) in just one month.

Check out the description below:

Although many of us may be feeling fear or despair about the global climate crisis and our ability to address problems such as rising sea levels, global warming, and persistent inequalities, this study-abroad experience centers on imagination, invention, tangible change, and hope for our collective future. In our on-campus class sessions and our two weeks in the Netherlands, we’ll discuss sustainability challenges such as energy, water, food, waste and pollution, housing, and transportation. Then we’ll explore the ways in which artists, scientists, and other creative minds have addressed those challenges in fiction, poetry, policies, and practices in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. How can speculative literature and sociology help us invent and imagine new solutions to urban problems? What ideas from Rotterdam and Amsterdam might be implemented in the Twin Cities? What kinds of futures can we imagine for our rapidly changing world, and how do we transform those visions into a new reality?

Learn more and apply here!

submitted by velamcco@augsburg.edu

Looking for a cool course to round out your schedule this spring? Consider taking Cultures of Violence (SOC 290)!

Street gangs and warfare. Police brutality and genocide. Domestic abuse and riots. What are the dynamics underlying these and other forms of violence? What do they have in common? How do they differ? This course takes violence in its many forms as a topic for sociological analysis. With this in mind, we will learn about the underlying social, interactional, group, and institutional dynamics that lead to violent behavior. In addition to the topics noted above, the course covers gender & violence, intergroup conflict, war propaganda, hate crime, the military-industrial complex, and more.

Cultures of Violence is scheduled for MWF, 1:50 – 3:00 p.m. It won’t be available again for two years, so register now!

Here’s what students are saying about it:

“This course is the definition of amazing and I honestly wish I could take it again. I would recommend this class to anyone, whether interested in sociology or not. I believe that anyone would fall in love and benefit from taking this course.”

“I loved this course! James is an incredible professor and I’ve always deeply enjoyed his classes. SOC 290 gave me a whole new perspective on sociology, violence, and culture. I am grateful I took this class!”

“[Prof.] James has always been and will forever be one of the most amazing professors I have had during my time at Augsburg. I always feel challenged, supported, and respected during his classes.”

Source: SOC 290 course evaluations, Spring 2023

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

As faculty finalize preparations for Spring 2025 courses, you are encouraged to review the Spring 2025 updated syllabus template for support in developing learner-centered syllabi and classroom policies.

Please recall all syllabi are required to include a Title IX statement.
It is recommended that all syllabi also include a FERPA statement. A model is provided.

All resources are available on the CTL homepage linked below.

Spring 2025 Syllabus Resources

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Moodle Essentials Zoom Workshop, January 15, 10-11 am

Intended as an interactive complement to the Moodle Basics online course, this Zoom session will introduce you to the tools needed to be proficient at Moodle as an Augsburg instructor. This interactive session will acquaint you with some best practices of online course design and delivery.

Facilitator: Shane Sletten, Elearning

https://augsburg.zoom.us/j/94647647358

Moodle Essentials Workshop Zoom Link

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Award season has started! Celebrate the achievements and contributions of your colleagues and professors. Nominations for the 2025 Faculty Distinguished Contribution Awards are open now through March 10.

There are 6 award categories: Scholarship, Service to the University, Service to the Community, Teaching: Adjunct or Part-time, Teaching: Full-time 5+ years, and Teaching: Full-time 5 years or less. Any members of the Augsburg community can serve as nominators.
Please find full descriptions and nomination forms linked below. Honor a faculty member with your nomination!

Faculty Distinguished Contribution Awards

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

As faculty finalize preparations for Spring 2025 courses, you are encouraged to review the Spring 2025 updated syllabus template for support in developing learner-centered syllabi and classroom policies.

Please recall all syllabi are required to include a Title IX statement.
It is recommended that all syllabi also include a FERPA statement. A model is provided.

All resources are available on the CTL page linked below.

Spring 2025 Syllabus Resources

submitted by starckl@augsburg.edu

There’s still time to apply for “Another Future Is Possible”: a short-term study abroad experience in the Netherlands during Summer Term 1.

You’ll earn eight credits (4 in sociology / urban studies, and 4 in English) in just one month.

Check out the description below:

Although many of us may be feeling fear or despair about the global climate crisis and our ability to address problems such as rising sea levels, global warming, and persistent inequalities, this study-abroad experience centers on imagination, invention, tangible change, and hope for our collective future. In our on-campus class sessions and our two weeks in the Netherlands, we’ll discuss sustainability challenges such as energy, water, food, waste and pollution, housing, and transportation. Then we’ll explore the ways in which artists, scientists, and other creative minds have addressed those challenges in fiction, poetry, policies, and practices in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. How can speculative literature and sociology help us invent and imagine new solutions to urban problems? What ideas from Rotterdam and Amsterdam might be implemented in the Twin Cities? What kinds of futures can we imagine for our rapidly changing world, and how do we transform those visions into a new reality?

Learn more and apply here!

submitted by velamcco@augsburg.edu

Looking for a cool course to round out your schedule this spring? Consider taking Cultures of Violence (SOC 290)!

Street gangs and warfare. Police brutality and genocide. Domestic abuse and riots. What are the dynamics underlying these and other forms of violence? What do they have in common? How do they differ? This course takes violence in its many forms as a topic for sociological analysis. With this in mind, we will learn about the underlying social, interactional, group, and institutional dynamics that lead to violent behavior. In addition to the topics noted above, the course covers gender & violence, intergroup conflict, war propaganda, hate crime, the military-industrial complex, and more.

Cultures of Violence is scheduled for MWF, 1:50 – 3:00 p.m. It won’t be available again for two years, so register now!

Here’s what students are saying about it:*

“This course is the definition of amazing and I honestly wish I could take it again. I would recommend this class to anyone, whether interested in sociology or not. I believe that anyone would fall in love and benefit from taking this course.”

“I loved this course! [Prof.] James is an incredible professor and I’ve always deeply enjoyed his classes. SOC 290 gave me a whole new perspective on sociology, violence, and culture. I am grateful I took this class!”

“James has always been and will forever be one of the most amazing professors I have had during my time at Augsburg. I always feel challenged, supported, and respected during his classes.”

*Source: SOC 290 course evaluations, Spring 2023

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Award season has started! Celebrate the achievements and contributions of your colleagues and professors. Nominations for the 2025 Faculty Distinguished Contribution Awards are open now through March 10.

There are 6 award categories: Scholarship, Service to the University, Service to the Community, Teaching: Adjunct or Part-time, Teaching: Full-time 5+ years, and Teaching: Full-time 5 years or less. Any members of the Augsburg community can serve as nominators.
Please find full descriptions and nomination forms linked below. Honor a faculty member with your nomination!

Faculty Distinguished Contribution Awards

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Moodle Essentials Zoom Workshop, January 15, 10-11 am

Intended as an interactive complement to the Moodle Basics online course, this Zoom session will introduce you to the tools needed to be proficient at Moodle as an Augsburg instructor. This interactive session will acquaint you with some best practices of online course design and delivery.

https://augsburg.zoom.us/j/94647647358

Moodle Essentials Zoom Link

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

Award season has started! Celebrate the achievements and contributions of your colleagues and professors. Nominations for the 2025 Faculty Distinguished Contribution Awards are open now through March 10.

There are 6 award categories: Scholarship, Service to the University, Service to the Community, Teaching: Adjunct or Part-time, Teaching: Full-time 5+ years, and Teaching: Full-time 5 years or less. Any members of the Augsburg community can serve as nominators.
Please find full descriptions and nomination forms linked below, and consider honoring a faculty member with your nomination.

Faculty Distinguished Contribution Awards

submitted by froehlic@augsburg.edu

Like Working with Kids? Need to Finish Your Augsburg Experience? Enroll in AUGEX5B

The Minnesota Urban Debate League, a program of Augsburg University, makes debate teams possible in Twin Cities schools for 1,400+ students! For the first time, MNUDL is now an Augsburg Experience program.

You can support our youth and gain valuable skills as part of the AUGEX5B Special Immersion: MN Urban Debate League course.

Benefits of participating:
• This counts toward your Augsburg Experience requirement, but it’s a 0-credit course, so you do NOT have to pay for participation.
• No specific major requirement!
• By participating, you can become qualified to judge multiple types of debate, which can lead to future paying gigs with the MNUDL!

**WE WELCOME SPANISH SPEAKERS!** There are unique opportunities to engage Spanish-speaking kids and celebrate the beauty of the language through this Augsburg Experience.

The spring semester course will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM on Fridays. The location will be the Anderson Hall basement (near the Campus Cupboard and MNUDL office.)

You’ll complete 40 hours supporting the MNUDL (20 must be completed off-campus.)

Register ASAP for: AUGEX5B.

Find all the information you need to register here: https://mnudl.augsburg.edu/mnudl-augsburg-experience/

Questions? Contact:
Johan at udlvolunteers@augsburg.edu.

Register for the Augsburg Experience with MNUDL

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

As faculty finalize preparations for Spring 2025 courses, you are encouraged review the Spring 2025 updated syllabus template for support in developing learner-centered syllabi and classroom policies.

Please recall all syllabi are required to include a Title IX statement.
It is recommended that all syllabi also include a FERPA statement. A model is provided.

All resources are available on the CTL page linked below.

Spring 2025 Syllabus Resources

submitted by starckl@augsburg.edu

If you find this question intriguing, you should definitely apply for the short-term study abroad experience in the Netherlands during Summer Term 1!

You’ll earn eight credits (4 in sociology / urban studies, and 4 in English) in just one month.

Check out the description below:

Although many of us may be feeling fear or despair about the global climate crisis and our ability to address problems such as rising sea levels, global warming, and persistent inequalities, this study-abroad experience centers on imagination, invention, tangible change, and hope for our collective future. In our on-campus class sessions and our two weeks in the Netherlands, we’ll discuss sustainability challenges such as energy, water, food, waste and pollution, housing, and transportation. Then we’ll explore the ways in which artists, scientists, and other creative minds have addressed those challenges in fiction, poetry, policies, and practices in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. How can speculative literature and sociology help us invent and imagine new solutions to urban problems? What ideas from Rotterdam and Amsterdam might be implemented in the Twin Cities? What kinds of futures can we imagine for our rapidly changing world, and how do we transform those visions into a new reality?

Learn more and apply here!

submitted by starckl@augsburg.edu

You still have time to apply for a short-term study abroad experience in the Netherlands during Summer Term 1!

You’ll earn eight credits (4 in sociology / urban studies, and 4 in English) in just one month.

Check out the description below, and apply here!

Although many of us may be feeling fear or despair about the global climate crisis and our ability to address problems such as rising sea levels, global warming, and persistent inequalities, this study-abroad experience centers on imagination, invention, tangible change, and hope for our collective future. In our on-campus class sessions and our two weeks in the Netherlands, we’ll discuss sustainability challenges such as energy, water, food, waste and pollution, housing, and transportation. Then we’ll explore the ways in which artists, scientists, and other creative minds have addressed those challenges in fiction, poetry, policies, and practices in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. How can speculative literature and sociology help us invent and imagine new solutions to urban problems? What ideas from Rotterdam and Amsterdam might be implemented in the Twin Cities? What kinds of futures can we imagine for our rapidly changing world, and how do we transform those visions into a new reality?

and apply here

submitted by froehlic@augsburg.edu

Like Working with Kids? Need to Finish Your Augsburg Experience? Enroll in AUGEX5B

The Minnesota Urban Debate League, a program of Augsburg University, makes debate teams possible in Twin Cities schools for 1,400+ students! For the first time, MNUDL is now an Augsburg Experience program.

You can support our youth and gain valuable skills as part of the AUGEX5B Special Immersion: MN Urban Debate League course.

Benefits of participating:
• This counts toward your Augsburg Experience requirement, but it’s a 0-credit course, so you do NOT have to pay for participation.
• No specific major requirement!
• By participating, you can become qualified to judge multiple types of debate, which can lead to future paying gigs with the MNUDL!

**WE WELCOME SPANISH SPEAKERS!** There are unique opportunities to engage Spanish-speaking kids and celebrate the beauty of the language through this Augsburg Experience.

The spring semester course will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM on Fridays. The location will be the Anderson Hall basement (near the Campus Cupboard and MNUDL office.)

You’ll complete 40 hours supporting the MNUDL (20 must be completed off-campus.)

Register ASAP for: AUGEX5B.

Find all the information you need to register here: https://mnudl.augsburg.edu/mnudl-augsburg-experience/

Questions? Contact:
Johan at udlvolunteers@augsburg.edu.

submitted by froehlic@augsburg.edu

Like Working with Kids? Need to Finish Your Augsburg Experience? Enroll in AUGEX5B

The Minnesota Urban Debate League, a program of Augsburg University, makes debate teams possible in Twin Cities schools for 1,400+ students! For the first time, MNUDL is now an Augsburg Experience program.

You can support our youth and gain valuable skills as part of the AUGEX5B Special Immersion: MN Urban Debate League course.

Benefits of participating:
• This counts toward your Augsburg Experience requirement, but it’s a 0-credit course, so you do NOT have to pay for participation.
• No specific major requirement!
• By participating, you can become qualified to judge multiple types of debate, which can lead to future paying gigs with the MNUDL!

**WE WELCOME SPANISH SPEAKERS!** There are unique opportunities to engage Spanish-speaking kids and celebrate the beauty of the language through this Augsburg Experience.

The spring semester course will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM on Fridays. The location will be the Anderson Hall basement (near the Campus Cupboard and MNUDL office.)

You’ll complete 40 hours supporting the MNUDL (20 must be completed off-campus.)

Register ASAP for: AUGEX5B.

Find all the information you need to register here: https://mnudl.augsburg.edu/mnudl-augsburg-experience/

Questions? Contact:
Johan at udlvolunteers@augsburg.edu.

submitted by boylek@augsburg.edu

Dear Augsburg Community,

Implementation planning for the new general education curriculum, approved in spring 2024 and planned to begin in fall 2025, is on track. Below is a high-level overview of where we’ve been and a preview of where we are heading:

Completed Implementation Steps – Summer and Fall 2024

We have courses to offer in new general education curriculum.
– 386 current gen ed courses were approved to migrate to the new curriculum

We are able to complete transfer evaluations for new students.
– New transfer policies were approved
– Transfer course equivalents were updated

Our accreditor (HLC) and the State (MOHE) were informed of our general education revision.

Implementation Steps in Process – Fall 2024 to Spring 2025

Building the new degree audit

Planning for advising current and new students about the new gen ed

Faculty/staff development and support planning

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to implementation planning this semester. Please refer to the General Education Revision 2023 Community Moodle page (self-enrollment is available) for more information.

With gratitude,
Stacy (freiheit@augsburg.edu)

General Education Revision 2023 Community Moodle page

submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu

Phillips Scholars create and test innovative ideas that address community needs — running their own programming in the summer of 2026. There’s support along the way, with the students coming together starting this May and throughout the 2025-26 academic year. Scholars receive more than $9,000 in scholarships and stipends.

Ten students from any of the Minnesota private colleges listed here will be named Phillips Scholars. Financial need is one of the criteria.

Find more details and the application here:
http://www.mnprivatecolleges.org/phillips

Email Jenean Gilmer, gilmerje@augbsburg.edu to learn more!

submitted by froehlic@augsburg.edu

Like Working with Kids? Need to Finish Your Augsburg Experience? Enroll in AUGEX5B

The Minnesota Urban Debate League, a program of Augsburg University, makes debate teams possible in Twin Cities schools for 1,400+ students! For the first time, MNUDL is now an Augsburg Experience program.

You can support our youth and gain valuable skills as part of the AUGEX5B Special Immersion: MN Urban Debate League course.

Benefits of participating:
• This counts toward your Augsburg Experience requirement, but it’s a 0-credit course, so you do NOT have to pay for participation.
• No specific major requirement!
• By participating, you can become qualified to judge multiple types of debate, which can lead to future paying gigs with the MNUDL!

**WE WELCOME SPANISH SPEAKERS!** There are unique opportunities to engage Spanish-speaking kids and celebrate the beauty of the language through this Augsburg Experience.

The spring semester course will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM on Fridays. The location will be the Anderson Hall basement (near the Campus Cupboard and MNUDL office.)

You’ll complete 40 hours supporting the MNUDL (20 must be completed off-campus.)

Register ASAP for: AUGEX5B.

Find all the information you need to register here: https://mnudl.augsburg.edu/mnudl-augsburg-experience/

Questions? Contact:
Johan at udlvolunteers@augsburg.edu.

submitted by boylek@augsburg.edu

Dear Augsburg Community,

Implementation planning for the new general education curriculum, approved in spring 2024 and planned to begin in fall 2025, is on track. Below is a high-level overview of where we’ve been and a preview of where we are heading:

Completed Implementation Steps – Summer and Fall 2024

We have courses to offer in new general education curriculum
– 386 current gen ed courses were approved to migrate to the new curriculum

We are able to complete transfer evaluations for new students
– New transfer policies were approved
– Transfer course equivalents were updated

Our accreditor (HLC) and the State (MOHE) were informed of our general education revision

Implementation Steps in Process – Fall 2024 to Spring 2025

Building the new degree audit

Planning for advising current and new students about the new gen ed

Faculty/staff development and support planning

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to implementation planning this semester. Please refer to the General Education Revision 2023 Community Moodle page (self-enrollment is available) for more information.

With gratitude,
Stacy (freiheit@augsburg.edu)

General Education Revision 2023 Community Moodle page

submitted by knutzenm@augsburg.edu

While it might only be December, Career Exploration Day on March 4th will be here soon! The Strommen Center is seeking dynamic, innovative workshop proposals from faculty, staff, and industry partners to inspire first and second-year students. Our event aims to connect academic planning with career development through three key tracks: Career Skills and Planning, Major Exploration, and Employer/Alumni Connections. Help us empower students to strategically shape their academic and professional futures. Engaging, interactive 45 minute sessions are welcome.

Submit your session today!

submitted by boylek@augsburg.edu

Dear Augsburg Community,

Implementation planning for the new general education curriculum, approved in spring 2024 and planned to begin in fall 2025, is on track. Below is a high-level overview of where we’ve been and a preview of where we are heading:

Completed Implementation Steps – Summer and Fall 2024
We have courses to offer in new general education curriculum
– 386 current gen ed courses were approved to migrate to the new curriculum

We are able to complete transfer evaluations for new students
– New transfer policies were approved
– Transfer course equivalents were updated

Our accreditor (HLC) and the State (MOHE) were informed of our general education revision

Implementation Steps in Process – Fall 2024 to Spring 2025
Building the new degree audit

Planning for advising current and new students about the new gen ed

Faculty/staff development and support planning

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to implementation planning this semester. Please refer to the General Education Revision 2023 Community Moodle page (self-enrollment is available) for more information.

With gratitude,
Stacy (freiheit@augsburg.edu)

General Education Revision 2023 Community Moodle page

submitted by devries@augsburg.edu

If you love to study language and are interested in a career in public service, consider applying for a Boren Scholarship or Fellowship!

The Boren program provides between $8000 and $25,000 to to study a critical language, including Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, and Swahili. The program also helps you locate a position in government service. It’s open to both undergraduates (deadline: January 29, 2025) and graduate students (deadline: January 22, 2025.)

More information can be found here: https://www.borenawards.org/

If you’re interested, please contact Jacqueline deVries, Director of Grants and Fellowships, devries@augsburg.edu Applications should be submitted to me TWO weeks prior to the official deadline.

https://www.borenawards.org/

submitted by goffe@augsburg.edu

Learn how to qualify, write a strong application, find a faculty mentor, and participate in URGO Summer Research!

The URGO Summer Research Program is an 11-week, on-campus program where undergraduate students are funded to conduct research or creative activities under the guidance of a faculty mentor they choose.

$6,000 for full-time researchers
$3,000 for half-time researchers

URGO Summer Research also counts as Augsburg Experience!

If you have any questions regarding the program please read the information packet and then contact urgo@augsburg.edu for any further questions.

URGO Summer Research Packet 2025

submitted by devries@augsburg.edu

If you love to study language and are interested in a career in public service, consider applying for a Boren Scholarship or Fellowship!

The Boren program provides between $8000 and $25,000 to to study a critical language, including Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, and Swahili. The program also helps you locate a position in government service. It’s open to both undergraduates (deadline: January 29, 2025) and graduate students (deadline: January 22, 2025.)

More information can be found here: https://www.borenawards.org/

If you’re interested, please contact Jacqueline deVries, Director of Grants and Fellowships, devries@augsburg.edu Applications should be submitted to me TWO weeks prior to the official deadline.

https://www.borenawards.org/

submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu

Phillips Scholars create and test innovative ideas that address community needs — running their own programming in the summer of 2026. There’s support along the way, with the students coming together starting this May and throughout the 2025-26 academic year. Scholars receive more than $9,000 in scholarships and stipends.

Ten students from any of the Minnesota private colleges listed here will be named Phillips Scholars. Financial need is one of the criteria.

Find more details and the application here:
http://www.mnprivatecolleges.org/phillips

Email Jenean Gilmer, gilmerje@augbsburg.edu to learn more!

submitted by greenfie@augsburg.edu

The Writing Center will be open today (12/10) during our regular hours:
In-Person: 2-8pm
Online: 6-8pm

We will be closed for winter break starting Wednesday (12/11). We will open again soon after the start of Spring semester – keep an eye on A-mail for more details!

The Augsburg Writing Center offers free writing support, both online and in-person. Skilled Augsburg students will work with you one-on-one at whatever stage of writing you are in – the idea-development stage, the drafting stage, and the revision stage – and can show you how to choose an appropriate essay topic, how to develop a thesis statement and paragraphs, how to revise your essay, or assist with any other writing needs you may have. Tutors will be alert listeners and ask questions, and will not judge or evaluate the work in progress. For more information, please visit our website. We look forward to seeing you!

Located on the second floor (across from Advising) of the Lindell Library

In-Person Hours (stop by anytime, no appointment needed):

Monday: 2:00-8:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 2:00-8:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 2:00-8:00 p.m.
Thursday: 2:00-8:00 p.m.
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Online (appointment needed): Sunday-Thursday 6-8 p.m.

https://sites.augsburg.edu/writingcenter/

submitted by froehlic@augsburg.edu

Like Working with Kids? Need to Finish Your Augsburg Experience? Enroll in AUGEX5B

The Minnesota Urban Debate League, a program of Augsburg University, makes debate teams possible in Twin Cities schools for 1,400+ students! For the first time, MNUDL is now an Augsburg Experience program.

You can support our youth and gain valuable skills as part of the AUGEX5B Special Immersion: MN Urban Debate League course.

Benefits of participating:
• This counts toward your Augsburg Experience requirement, but it’s a 0-credit course, so you do NOT have to pay for participation.
• No specific major requirement!
• By participating, you can become qualified to judge multiple types of debate, which can lead to future paying gigs with the MNUDL!

**WE WELCOME SPANISH SPEAKERS!** There are unique opportunities to engage Spanish-speaking kids and celebrate the beauty of the language through this Augsburg Experience.

The spring semester course will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM on Fridays. The location will be the Anderson Hall basement (near the Campus Cupboard and MNUDL office.)

You’ll complete 40 hours supporting the MNUDL (20 must be completed off-campus.)

Register ASAP for: AUGEX5B.

Find all the information you need to register here: https://mnudl.augsburg.edu/mnudl-augsburg-experience/

Questions? Contact:
Johan at udlvolunteers@augsburg.edu.

submitted by goffe@augsburg.edu

Learn how to qualify, write a strong application, find a faculty mentor, and participate in URGO Summer Research!

The URGO Summer Research Program is an 11-week, on-campus program where undergraduate students are funded to conduct research or creative activities under the guidance of a faculty mentor they choose.

$6,000 for full-time researchers
$3,000 for half-time researchers

URGO Summer Research also counts as Augsburg Experience!

If you have any questions regarding the program please read the information packet and then contact urgo@augsburg.edu for any further questions.

URGO Summer Research Packet 2025

submitted by goffe@augsburg.edu

Learn how to qualify, write a strong application, find a faculty mentor, and participate in URGO Summer Research!

The URGO Summer Research Program is an 11-week, on-campus program where undergraduate students are funded to conduct research or creative activities under the guidance of a faculty mentor they choose.

$6,000 for full-time researchers
$3,000 for half-time researchers

URGO Summer Research also counts as Augsburg Experience!

If you have any questions regarding the program please read the information packet and then contact urgo@augsburg.edu for any further questions.

URGO Summer Research Packet 2025

submitted by froehlic@augsburg.edu

Like Working with Kids? Need to Finish Your Augsburg Experience? Enroll in AUGEX5B

The Minnesota Urban Debate League, a program of Augsburg University, makes debate teams possible in Twin Cities schools for 1,400+ students! For the first time, MNUDL is now an Augsburg Experience program.

You can support our youth and gain valuable skills as part of the AUGEX5B Special Immersion: MN Urban Debate League course.

Benefits of participating:
• This counts toward your Augsburg Experience requirement, but it’s a 0-credit course, so you do NOT have to pay for participation.
• No specific major requirement!
• By participating, you can become qualified to judge multiple types of debate, which can lead to future paying gigs with the MNUDL!

**WE WELCOME SPANISH SPEAKERS!** There are unique opportunities to engage Spanish-speaking kids and celebrate the beauty of the language through this Augsburg Experience.

The spring semester course will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM on Fridays. The location will be the Anderson Hall basement (near the Campus Cupboard and MNUDL office.)

You’ll complete 40 hours supporting the MNUDL (20 must be completed off-campus.)

Register ASAP for: AUGEX5B.

Find all the information you need to register here: https://mnudl.augsburg.edu/mnudl-augsburg-experience/

Questions? Contact:
Johan at udlvolunteers@augsburg.edu.

submitted by goffe@augsburg.edu

Learn how to qualify, write a strong application, find a faculty mentor, and participate in URGO Summer Research!

The URGO Summer Research Program is an 11-week, on-campus program where undergraduate students are funded to conduct research or creative activities under the guidance of a faculty mentor they choose.

$6,000 for full-time researchers
$3,000 for half-time researchers

URGO Summer Research also counts as Augsburg Experience!

If you have any questions regarding the program please read the information packet and then contact urgo@augsburg.edu for any further questions.

URGO Summer Research Packet 2025

submitted by zobitz@augsburg.edu

Come play some games with students in MAT 373 Probability Theory 12/6 starting at 11:10 AM in Hagfors 104 as they present their semester projects. Take a stress break by learning some new favorites to play with friends and family over break!

The format is an open house, open invitation to all, where students will (re)-teach you a game they studied. You may also learn some cool probability aspects as well. You are welcome to stop by for 5 minutes to the whole hour.

submitted by froehlic@augsburg.edu

Like Working with Kids? Need to Finish Your Augsburg Experience? Enroll in AUGEX5B

The Minnesota Urban Debate League, a program of Augsburg University, makes debate teams possible in Twin Cities schools for 1,400+ students! For the first time, MNUDL is now an Augsburg Experience program.

You can support our youth and gain valuable skills as part of the AUGEX5B Special Immersion: MN Urban Debate League course.

Benefits of participating:
• This counts toward your Augsburg Experience requirement, but it’s a 0-credit course, so you do NOT have to pay for participation.
• No specific major requirement!
• By participating, you can become qualified to judge multiple types of debate, which can lead to future paying gigs with the MNUDL!

**WE WELCOME SPANISH SPEAKERS!** There are unique opportunities to engage Spanish-speaking kids and celebrate the beauty of the language through this Augsburg Experience.

The spring semester course will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM on Fridays. The location will be the Anderson Hall basement (near the Campus Cupboard and MNUDL office.)

You’ll complete 40 hours supporting the MNUDL (20 must be completed off-campus.)

Register ASAP for: AUGEX5B.

Find all the information you need to register here: https://mnudl.augsburg.edu/mnudl-augsburg-experience/

Questions? Contact:
Johan at udlvolunteers@augsburg.edu.

submitted by goffe@augsburg.edu

Learn how to qualify, write a strong application, find a faculty mentor, and participate in URGO Summer Research!

The URGO Summer Research Program is an 11-week, on-campus program where undergraduate students are funded to conduct research or creative activities under the guidance of a faculty mentor they choose.

$6,000 for full-time researchers
$3,000 for half-time researchers

URGO Summer Research also counts as Augsburg Experience!

If you have any questions regarding the program please read the information packet and then contact urgo@augsburg.edu for any further questions.

URGO Summer Research Packet 2025

submitted by froehlic@augsburg.edu

The Minnesota Urban Debate League, a program of Augsburg University, makes debate teams possible in Twin Cities schools for 1,400+ students! For the first time, MNUDL is now an Augsburg Experience program.

You can support our youth and gain valuable skills as part of the AUGEX5B Special Immersion: MN Urban Debate League course.

Benefits of participating:
• This counts toward your Augsburg Experience requirement, but it’s a 0-credit course, so you do NOT have to pay for participation.
• No specific major requirement!
• By participating, you can become qualified to judge multiple types of debate, which can lead to future paying gigs with the MNUDL!

**WE WELCOME SPANISH SPEAKERS!** There are unique opportunities to engage Spanish-speaking kids and celebrate the beauty of the language through this Augsburg Experience.

The spring semester course will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM on Fridays. The location will be the Anderson Hall basement (near the Campus Cupboard and MNUDL office.)

You’ll complete 40 hours supporting the MNUDL (20 must be completed off-campus.)

Register ASAP for: AUGEX5B.

Find all the information you need to register here: https://mnudl.augsburg.edu/mnudl-augsburg-experience/

Questions? Contact:
Johan at udlvolunteers@augsburg.edu.

submitted by goffe@augsburg.edu

Learn how to write a strong application, find a faculty mentor, and participate in URGO Summer Research!

The URGO Summer Research Program is an 11-week, on-campus program where undergraduate students are funded to conduct research or creative activities under the guidance of a faculty mentor they choose.

$6,000 for full-time researchers
$3,000 for half-time researchers

URGO Summer Research also counts as Augsburg Experience!

If you have any questions regarding the program please read the information packet and then contact urgo@augsburg.edu for any further questions.

URGO Summer Research Packet 2025

submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu

Phillips Scholars create and test innovative ideas that address community needs — running their own programming in the summer of 2026. There’s support along the way, with the students coming together starting this May and throughout the 2025-26 academic year. Scholars receive more than $9,000 in scholarships and stipends.

Ten students from any of the Minnesota private colleges listed here will be named Phillips Scholars. Financial need is one of the criteria.

Find more details and the application here:
http://www.mnprivatecolleges.org/phillips

Email Jenean Gilmer, gilmerje@augbsburg.edu to learn more!

submitted by greenfie@augsburg.edu

The Writing Center will be open during our regular hours on Wednesday 11/26 but closed on Thursday 11/27. We’ll be open again on Sunday!

The Augsburg Writing Center offers free writing support, both online and in-person. Skilled Augsburg students will work with you one-on-one at whatever stage of writing you are in – the idea-development stage, the drafting stage, and the revision stage – and can show you how to choose an appropriate essay topic, how to develop a thesis statement and paragraphs, how to revise your essay, or assist with any other writing needs you may have. Tutors will be alert listeners and ask questions, and will not judge or evaluate the work in progress. For more information, please visit our website. We look forward to seeing you!

Located on the second floor (across from Advising) of the Lindell Library

In-Person Hours (stop by anytime, no appointment needed):

Monday: 2:00-8:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 2:00-8:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 2:00-8:00 p.m.
Thursday: 2:00-8:00 p.m.
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Online (appointment needed): Sunday-Thursday 6-8 p.m.

https://sites.augsburg.edu/writingcenter/

submitted by finka2@augsburg.edu

The Youth Studies minor is an interdisciplinary exploration of young peoples’ lived realities and opportunities to support them. The minor is designed to supplement a student’s current course of study particularly if that student is considering youth work in the future. Youth Studies students develop constructive and critical lenses for understanding society’s perceptions and treatment of young people. These lenses also shed light on young peoples’ processes of constructing meaning and culture. Students in this minor also gain practical skills through experiential learning opportunities. The underlying philosophy of the Youth Studies minor is one that supports young people’s voice and power. Young people are often targeted as a menace to society, but we see young people as gifted and powerful agents of positive change. Students in this minor will learn to take this approach to youth work into their chosen professions.

YST 320: Working with Children & Youth (4 credits, MWF) will be offered this spring with Professor Terrance Kwame-Ross. It will discuss interdisciplinary approaches to working with young people.

Contact Alex (finka2@augsburg.edu) with questions!

Youth Studies Minor & Courses

submitted by froehlic@augsburg.edu

The Minnesota Urban Debate League, a program of Augsburg University, makes debate teams possible in Twin Cities schools for 1,400+ students! For the first time, MNUDL is now an Augsburg Experience program.

You can support our youth and gain valuable skills as part of the AUGEX5B Special Immersion: MN Urban Debate League course.

Benefits of participating:
• This counts toward your Augsburg Experience requirement, but it’s a 0-credit course, so you do NOT have to pay for participation.
• No specific major requirement!
• By participating, you can become qualified to judge multiple types of debate, which can lead to future paying gigs with the MNUDL!

**WE WELCOME SPANISH SPEAKERS!** There are unique opportunities to engage Spanish-speaking kids and celebrate the beauty of the language through this Augsburg Experience.

The spring semester course will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM on Fridays. The location will be the Anderson Hall basement (near the Campus Cupboard and MNUDL office.)

You’ll complete 40 hours supporting the MNUDL (20 must be completed off-campus.)

Register ASAP for: AUGEX5B.

Find all the information you need to register here: https://mnudl.augsburg.edu/mnudl-augsburg-experience/

Questions? Contact:
Johan at udlvolunteers@augsburg.edu.

submitted by devries@augsburg.edu

HIS 440: Black Migrations to the United States
Spring 2024

Tuesday / Thursday 9:40 11:20AM (on campus)
Taught by Prof. Ibrahim Hirsi

An estimated 48 million people in the United States identify as Black. Their migrations—forced and voluntary—began in 1619 and continue to the present day. They came from Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and South and Central America. Many are descendants of enslaved people; others have emerged from places like Somalia and Ethiopia and Ghana and Jamaica. This course provides an overview of the journeys and experiences of African Americans and Black migrants and examines their unbroken ties—imagined and real—to the African continent. The course draws from a wide range of interdisciplinary sources, exposing students to major historical themes and significant Black figures. Through lectures, discussions, and thesis-driven writing assignments, students gain a substantive understanding of the African diaspora’s historical formation and develop critical reading and writing skills essential to successful careers. (Prerequisite: ENL 111)

Prof. Ibrahim Hirsi is finishing his Ph.D. in Immigration History at the University of Minnesota, after working as a journalist for the Sahan Journal, MinnPost, and Minnesota Public Radio. In addition to English, he speaks Somali, Arabic, and Swahili.

submitted by froehlic@augsburg.edu

The Minnesota Urban Debate League, a program of Augsburg University, makes debate teams possible in Twin Cities schools for 1,400+ students! For the first time, MNUDL is now an Augsburg Experience program.

You can support our youth and gain valuable skills as part of the AUGEX5B Special Immersion: MN Urban Debate League course.

Benefits of participating:
• This counts toward your Augsburg Experience requirement, but it’s a 0-credit course, so you do NOT have to pay for participation.
• No specific major requirement!
• By participating, you can become qualified to judge multiple types of debate, which can lead to future paying gigs with the MNUDL!

**WE WELCOME SPANISH SPEAKERS!** There are unique opportunities to engage Spanish-speaking kids and celebrate the beauty of the language through this Augsburg Experience.

The spring semester course will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM on Fridays. The location will be the Anderson Hall basement (near the Campus Cupboard and MNUDL office.)

You’ll complete 40 hours supporting the MNUDL (20 must be completed off-campus.)

Register ASAP for: AUGEX5B.

Find all the information you need to register here: https://mnudl.augsburg.edu/mnudl-augsburg-experience/

Questions? Contact:
Johan at udlvolunteers@augsburg.edu.

submitted by finka2@augsburg.edu

The Youth Studies minor is an interdisciplinary exploration of young peoples’ lived realities and opportunities to support them. The minor is designed to supplement a student’s current course of study particularly if that student is considering youth work in the future. Youth Studies students develop constructive and critical lenses for understanding society’s perceptions and treatment of young people. These lenses also shed light on young peoples’ processes of constructing meaning and culture. Students in this minor also gain practical skills through experiential learning opportunities. The underlying philosophy of the Youth Studies minor is one that supports young people’s voice and power. Young people are often targeted as a menace to society, but we see young people as gifted and powerful agents of positive change. Students in this minor will learn to take this approach to youth work into their chosen professions.

YST 320: Working with Children & Youth (4 credits, MWF) will be offered this spring with Professor Terrance Kwame-Ross. It will discuss interdisciplinary approaches to working with young people.

Contact Alex (finka2@augsburg.edu) with questions!

Youth Studies Minor & Courses

submitted by finka2@augsburg.edu

The Youth Studies minor is an interdisciplinary exploration of young peoples’ lived realities and opportunities to support them. The minor is designed to supplement a student’s current course of study particularly if that student is considering youth work in the future. Youth Studies students develop constructive and critical lenses for understanding society’s perceptions and treatment of young people. These lenses also shed light on young peoples’ processes of constructing meaning and culture. Students in this minor also gain practical skills through experiential learning opportunities. The underlying philosophy of the Youth Studies minor is one that supports young people’s voice and power. Young people are often targeted as a menace to society, but we see young people as gifted and powerful agents of positive change. Students in this minor will learn to take this approach to youth work into their chosen professions.

YST 320: Working with Children & Youth (4 credits, MWF) will be offered this spring with Professor Terrance Kwame-Ross. It will discuss interdisciplinary approaches to working with young people.

Contact Alex (finka2@augsburg.edu) with questions!

Youth Studies Minor & Courses

submitted by truesmit@augsburg.edu

Introducing the Interfaith Institute’s 2024-25 Advancing Religious Pluralism Faculty Fellows!

Margit Berman, Department of Clinical Psychology
Kathleen Clark, Department of Nursing (Chair)
Sarah Degner Riveros, Department of Languages and Cross-Cultural Studies
Daniel Hickox-Young, Department of Physics
Brooklyn Loxtercamp, Department of Nursing
Sergio Madrid-Aranda, Department of Education
Vanessa Marr, Department of Social Work
Kao Nou Moua, Department of Social Work

We are so pleased to welcome this cohort from across academic disciplines. The cohort is led by El-Hibri Endowed Chair Najeeba Syeed and Matthew Maruggi, Chair of Religion and Philosophy Department. In addition to working on curricula in their own fields related to religious pluralism they will be supported for further training in religious pluralism.
We look forward to their campus wide impact!

Interfaith Blog Post

submitted by devries@augsburg.edu

HIS 440: Black Migrations to the United States
Spring 2024

Tuesday / Thursday 9:40 11:20AM (on campus)
Taught by Prof. Ibrahim Hirsi

An estimated 48 million people in the United States identify as Black. Their migrations—forced and voluntary—began in 1619 and continue to the present day. They came from Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and South and Central America. Many are descendants of enslaved people; others have emerged from places like Somalia and Ethiopia and Ghana and Jamaica. This course provides an overview of the journeys and experiences of African Americans and Black migrants and examines their unbroken ties—imagined and real—to the African continent. The course draws from a wide range of interdisciplinary sources, exposing students to major historical themes and significant Black figures. Through lectures, discussions, and thesis-driven writing assignments, students gain a substantive understanding of the African diaspora’s historical formation and develop critical reading and writing skills essential to successful careers. (Prerequisite: ENL 111)

Prof. Ibrahim Hirsi is finishing his Ph.D. in Immigration History at the University of Minnesota, after working as a journalist for the Sahan Journal, MinnPost, and Minnesota Public Radio. In addition to English, he speaks Somali, Arabic, and Swahili.

submitted by devries@augsburg.edu

HIS 440: Black Migrations to the United States
Spring 2024

Tuesday / Thursday 9:40 11:20AM (on campus)
Taught by Prof. Ibrahim Hirsi

An estimated 48 million people in the United States identify as Black. Their migrations—forced and voluntary—began in 1619 and continue to the present day. They came from Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and South and Central America. Many are descendants of enslaved people; others have emerged from places like Somalia and Ethiopia and Ghana and Jamaica. This course provides an overview of the journeys and experiences of African Americans and Black migrants and examines their unbroken ties—imagined and real—to the African continent. The course draws from a wide range of interdisciplinary sources, exposing students to major historical themes and significant Black figures. Through lectures, discussions, and thesis-driven writing assignments, students gain a substantive understanding of the African diaspora’s historical formation and develop critical reading and writing skills essential to successful careers. (Prerequisite: ENL 111)

Prof. Ibrahim Hirsi is finishing his Ph.D. in Immigration History at the University of Minnesota, after working as a journalist for the Sahan Journal, MinnPost, and Minnesota Public Radio. In addition to English, he speaks Somali, Arabic, and Swahili.

submitted by froehlic@augsburg.edu

The Minnesota Urban Debate League, a program of Augsburg University, makes debate teams possible in Twin Cities schools for 1,400+ students! For the first time, MNUDL is now an Augsburg Experience program.

You can support our youth and gain valuable skills as part of the AUGEX5B Special Immersion: MN Urban Debate League course.

Benefits of participating:
• This counts toward your Augsburg Experience requirement, but it’s a 0-credit course, so you do NOT have to pay for participation.
• No specific major requirement!
• By participating, you can become qualified to judge multiple types of debate, which can lead to future paying gigs with the MNUDL!

**WE WELCOME SPANISH SPEAKERS!** There are unique opportunities to engage Spanish-speaking kids and celebrate the beauty of the language through this Augsburg Experience.

The spring semester course will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM on Fridays. The location will be the Anderson Hall basement (near the Campus Cupboard and MNUDL office.)

You’ll complete 40 hours supporting the MNUDL (20 must be completed off-campus.)

Register ASAP for: AUGEX5B.

Find all the information you need to register here: https://mnudl.augsburg.edu/mnudl-augsburg-experience/

Questions? Contact:
Johan at udlvolunteers@augsburg.edu.

Johan will be tabling in the Christensen Center today! Stop by to learn more. (He speaks Spanish!)

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

This event is a chance for the Augsburg community to come together to ask questions, share resources, and discuss what we can do to respond to changes happening under the new administration, on issues such as immigration, educational funding, environmental Issues, and the overall state of democracy in America.

When: Thursday, November 21, 2024, 3:30 – 5:30
Where: East Commons, Christensen Center

Panelists and discussants (TBD). Hosted by Prof. Joe Underhill (Environmental Studies and Political Science), Prof. Michael Lansing, (History Department) and Provost Paula O’Loughlin.

submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu

Phillips Scholars create and test innovative ideas that address community needs — running their own programming in the summer of 2026. There’s support along the way, with the students coming together starting this May and throughout the 2025-26 academic year. Scholars receive more than $9,000 in scholarships and stipends.

Ten students from any of the Minnesota private colleges listed here will be named Phillips Scholars. Financial need is one of the criteria.

Find more details and the application here:
http://www.mnprivatecolleges.org/phillips

Email Jenean Gilmer, gilmerje@augbsburg.edu to learn more!

submitted by gilmerje@augsburg.edu

Phillips Scholars create and test innovative ideas that address community needs — running their own programming in the summer of 2026. There’s support along the way, with the students coming together starting this May and throughout the 2025-26 academic year. Scholars receive more than $9,000 in scholarships and stipends.

Ten students from any of the Minnesota private colleges listed here will be named Phillips Scholars. Financial need is one of the criteria.

Find more details and the application here:
http://www.mnprivatecolleges.org/phillips

Email Jenean Gilmer, gilmerje@augbsburg.edu to learn more!

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

This event is a chance for the Augsburg community to come together to ask questions, share resources, and discuss what we can do to respond to changes happening under the new administration, on issues such as immigration, educational funding, environmental Issues, and the overall state of democracy in America.

When: Thursday, November 21, 2024, 3:30 – 5:30
Where: East Commons, Christensen Center

Panelists and discussants (TBD). Hosted by Prof. Joe Underhill (Environmental Studies and Political Science), Prof. Michael Lansing, (History Department) and Provost Paula O’Loughlin.

submitted by froehlic@augsburg.edu

The Minnesota Urban Debate League, a program of Augsburg University, makes debate teams possible in Twin Cities schools for 1,400+ students! For the first time, MNUDL is now an Augsburg Experience program.

You can support our youth and gain valuable skills as part of the AUGEX5B Special Immersion: MN Urban Debate League course.

Benefits of participating:
• This counts toward your Augsburg Experience requirement, but it’s a 0-credit course, so you do NOT have to pay for participation.
• No specific major requirement!
• By participating, you can become qualified to judge multiple types of debate, which can lead to future paying gigs with the MNUDL!

The spring semester course will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM on Fridays. The location will be the Anderson Hall basement (near the Campus Cupboard and MNUDL office.)

You’ll complete 40 hours supporting the MNUDL (20 must be completed off-campus.)

Register ASAP for: AUGEX5B.

Find all the information you need to register here: https://mnudl.augsburg.edu/mnudl-augsburg-experience/

Questions? Contact:
Johan at udlvolunteers@augsburg.edu.

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

This event is a chance for the Augsburg community to come together to ask questions, share resources, and discuss what we can do to respond to changes happening under the new administration, on issues such as immigration, educational funding, environmental Issues, and the overall state of democracy in America.

When: Thursday, November 21, 2024, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Where: East Commons, Christensen Center

Panelists and discussants (TBD). Hosted by Prof. Joe Underhill (Environmental Studies and Political Science), Prof. Michael Lansing, (History Department) and Provost Paula O’Loughlin.

submitted by froehlic@augsburg.edu

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The Minnesota Urban Debate League, a program of Augsburg University, makes debate teams possible in Twin Cities schools for 1,400+ students! For the first time, MNUDL is now an Augsburg Experience program.

You can support our youth and gain valuable skills as part of the AUGEX5B Special Immersion: MN Urban Debate League course.

Benefits of participating:
• This counts toward your Augsburg Experience requirement, but it’s a 0-credit course, so you do NOT have to pay for participation.
• No specific major requirement!
• By participating, you can become qualified to judge multiple types of debate, which can lead to future paying gigs with the MNUDL!

The spring semester course will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM on Fridays. The location will be the Anderson Hall basement (near the Campus Cupboard and MNUDL office.)

You’ll complete 40 hours supporting the MNUDL (20 must be completed off-campus.)

Register ASAP for: AUGEX5B.

Find all the information you need to register here: https://mnudl.augsburg.edu/mnudl-augsburg-experience/

Questions? Contact:
Johan at udlvolunteers@augsburg.edu.