Announcements
FACULTY FORUM ON FACULTY HANDBOOK
Thursday, December 9, 2010
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Evald 113
Up for discussion is the chaper on the pre-tenure and tenure process. It has the most revision of any considered to date. The material supplied to candidates and their chairs have been integrated and information relevant to the old SRI has been deleted. This chapter along with others that have been discussed are available on the Moodle site under Faculty Groups or can be read HERE.
FRIDAY CONVERSATIONS
December 10, 2010
"Special Collections at the Thomas Tredway Library"
4:00 - 5:00 PM
3:30 PM - Refreshments
Wilson Center
Over the past several years, Special Collections has worked with classes from English, history, art history, religion, French, geography, anthropology, Scandinavian Studies, and the LS sequence. Almost 30 classes per year use Special Collections, and 350 students visited Special Collections during the 2010 fall term. Come learn how Special Collections might be useful to your classes or Senior Inquiry projects, and bring questions and ideas. Presenters include Meg Gillette, Jane Simonsen, Sarah Horowitz and Jamie Nelson.
DIVISION MEETINGS
| Fine & Performing Arts | 12-9-10 | 11:30-12:30 | Bergendoff 12 |
| Language & Literature | DONE | ||
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Natural Science |
12-2-10 | 10:30-11:30 | Science 102 |
| Hist, Phil & Religion | 12-9-10 | 10:30-11:30 | Old Main 332 |
| Business & Education | 12-9-10 | 10:30-11:30 | Evald 212 |
| Social Sciences | 12-9-10 | CANCELLED |
PRESIDENTIAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS
DUE DECEMBER 15, 2010.
SEE "GRANTS"
CONVOCATION: CHAD PREGRACKE "MAKING A DIFFERENCE:
HELPING TO CLEAN AMERICA'S RIVERS"
Thursday, December 9, 2010
10:30 - 11:30 AM
Chad Pregracke grew up near Hampton, Illinois on the Mississippi River. His experiences led to his vision to clean up the Mississippi and his organization, Living Lands and Waters. During his talk, he will take the audience out on one of the world's greatest rivers--a journey filled with endless challenges and gripping adventures. His tale embodies the importance of setting goals (one river and one piece of garbage at a time) and illustrates how determination, hard work and persistence pay off.
ALL FACULTY MEETING
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Wallenberg Hall, Denkmann Building
Julsmörgåsbord Christmas Buffet
December 16, 2010
5:00 PM
College Center Dining Room
Augustana employees and their families gather around a traditional Swedish smörgåsbord to celebrate our community (and eat too much potato sausage and herring). Students serenade the crowd, and after dinner, children are invited upstairs for an interactive telling of the Christmas story, and (possibly) a visit by the American version of the Jultomte.
Ticket Price: $10 adults, $5 children 5-12, free to younger children; maximum of $33 for employee and immediate family. Payment can be mailed or sent via interoffice envelope to the attention of: Sara Maccabee, President's Office, Founders Hall. http://www.augustana.edu/smorgasbord.
You are invited to the annual
President's Holiday Open House
at the
Dahl President's Home
1100 35th Street
Rock Island, IL 61201
Friday, December 17, 2010
Luncheon Buffet from 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
We hope you can join Steve and Jane Bahls in this festive celebration
and partake in some collegial comaraderie
prior to the holiday break!
REFORMATION PRINTING
Books and Pamphlets from Special Collections
Thomas Tredway Library
This display includes materials printed during the period of the Protestant Reformation that began in 1517 with Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses, and ended over a century later with Protestantism as an established part of European life. Included are examples of early persuasive pamphlets, the Augusburg Confesion (from which Augustana College derives its name), and Reformation bindings. These materials will be on display on the second floor of the library until the end of Winter Term.
IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE...AN AUGUSTANA CHRISTMAS
Special Collections
Celebrations and traditions surrounding the Christmas season at Augustana have proven to be popular and long lasting. Many of Augustana's traditions are directly influenced by Augustana's Swedish heritage, such as the Sankta Lucia Festival, Tomtegubben, and the Smörġasbord, while others, such as the Handel Oratorio society, are simply a genuine expression of the joyous atmosphere of the holiday season. This exhibit aims to trace the formation and practice of five of Augustana's most popular Christmas traditions. Curated by Leslie Nellis '11, this exhibit will be on display in Special Collections until mid-January.
MIDWEST FACULTY SEMINAR
"Happiness"
January 13-15, 2011
Registration for the second of this year's Midwest Faculty Seminars is due on January 7. If you are interested in participating, please contact Mary Koski for an MFS registration form and request Ellen Hay for a nomination.
The United States' Declaration of Independence asserts that all men are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." We all seem to understand the sentiment behind this statement, and yet any attempt to specify what exactly is meant by "happiness" reveals an inadequacy inherent to the description of such an intensely personal emotion. Such efforts have, nonetheless, been a primary concern of philosophical, religious, psychological and even, as the above example illustrates, of legal thought at least since classical Greece. This seminar will take a variety of approaches from across the academic spectrum to create a conversation that engages these and other related issues. How can scientific and quantitative methods help us to understand human happiness better? How do understandings and expectations of happiness differ across cultures? What role do governments have in defining, or even providing for, the happiness of citizens? How have conceptions of happiness changed over time?