Announcements
GRAPHIC DESIGN CANDIDATE PRESENTATION
Vickie Phipps
Monday, February 4, 2013
4:30 PM
Community Engagement Center Classroom
The Art Department invites you to meet Vickie Phipps, candidate for the graphic design position. She will give a presentation on her work in the Center for Engagement (CEC) classroom in Sorensen Hall on Monday, February 4, 2013 at 4:30 P.M. All are welcome to attend.
Vickie Phipps earned her MFA at the University of Tennessee where she taught graphic design, including video production, concept development, and expressive typography. She has worked in community television and also administered the Emory and Henry College Bonner Scholar Program in which students did volunteer service in public service agencies. She was also part of a collaborative research project at the US Memorial Holocaust Museum entitled, "The Path to Vichy."
BUDGET TRAINING FOR DEPARTMENT & PROGRAM CHAIRS
Monday, February 11, 2013
4:00 - 5:30 PM
17 Evald Hall
CELEBRATION OF SCHOLARSHIP
Monday, February 18, 2013
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
HANSON HALL OF SCIENCE
For the past several years, we have received complaints about low attendance at sabbatical, pre-tenure and other faculty research talks. In response to these complaints, we have decided to change the format for these discussions. This year we will hold a Celebration of Faculty Scholarship afternoon (not unlike the Celebration of Learning).
This year's event will take place on Monday, February 18th (right after grades are due), from 12:00 until 4:00. Presenters and other attendees will have lunch in the 2nd floor Atrium, and then participate in thematic panels organized around faculty research. As in the past, we'll also showcase the faculty's creative work for the past year (please use the form found here to submit your work.) Our hope is that we'll have a real opportunity to talk to each other about our work. All faculty are invited to attend. A free lunch is included. Please RSVP to Mary Koski.
GEIFMAN PRIZE IN HOLOCAUST STUDIES
Annual student competition on the theme "Response to the Holocaust." Submissions may include essays, research papers, poems, plays, artwork, music, or other creative expression in response to literature, travel, or research. Monetary award: up to $300. Submissions made to Margi Rogal (margaretrogal@augustana.edu) or Tredway Library, by 4:00 p.m., March 22, 2013.
GEIFMAN FELLOWSHIP IN JEWISH CULTURE
Annual student fellowship. Fellow will develop a lesson plan on an aspect of Jewish culture and present the lesson in area schools. Subjects might include: history, music, literature, travel, theatre, cuisine, dance, social justice. Stipend: $2000. Details on Fellowship may be found here: www.augustana.edu/geifman
STUDENT LEARNING THROUGH MENTORED SCHOLARSHIP
Student learning through Mentored Scholarship (SLMS) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal that focuses on mentored learning within higher education. The journal engages in disseminating innovative practices that demonstrate how academic professionals, community leaders, and professionals from the government or private sectors employ supportive mentoring to increase learning success and educational effectiveness by engaging directly with students or less experienced faculty. Critical to success is the mentees' initiative in exercising a participatory role in design and enactment of the learning experience. Mentee and mentor co-authored manuscripts are especially encouraged. Visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sageopen
to submit your manuscript.
Examples of topics of special interest to the readership of SLMS include:
• Mentored learning experiences in or out of class
• Learning produced through mentored student research
• Internships and service learning
• Cooperative learning experiences
• Community engagement projects
• Co-curricular activities or projects that support and advance formal learning
• Longitudinal development studies
• Administrative, management, or peer support of mentored learning
• Centers and institutes with a special mission to support mentored learning
• Initiatives that support mentored learning within special groups such as minorities
• Mentoring that encourages or inspires participants toward careers
• Curricula that utilize mentored student learning
PROMOTING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH:
SHARING BEST PRACTICES
Saturday, April 6, 2013
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Augustana College
CALL FOR PRESENTERS: Undergraduate research has been identified as a high-impact practice that fosters student development, leads to greater levels of retention and persistence, and encourages synthesis and engagement.
- What do you do at your college or university to promote student research?
- Do you offer programs or support for students?
- Do you reward faculty involvement in research?
- Do you celebrate the work students do?
- Do you assess outcomes?
- What issues have you encountered?
- What have been your successes?
If you are interested in sharing how your institution has addressed these and other related questions, contact Ellen Hay. This one-day conference is designed to stretch faculty development funds through collaboration and exchange. It will feature a keynote speaker, concurrent sessions and a working lunch. Submissions are due by Friday, February 22, 2013.
CVs FOR ACCREDITATION
As you know, preparations are getting underway for the Higher Learning Commission accreditation. One of the things we need to accomplish is an archive of all current faculty CVs. Please email a copy of your current CV to Steve Klien, Chair of Faculty Welfare Committee, at your earliest convenience.
MIDWEST FACULTY SEMINAR TOPICS 2012-2013
Again this year, Augustana College will participate in the Midwest Faculty Seminars sponsored by the University of Chicago. Participation permits the College to send two faculty members to any single seminar. Below are the dates and titles of the four 2012-2013 seminars. If you are interested in attending any of these, please contact Margaret Farrar. Margaret will nominate you and send the registration form to you for completion. You are responsible for making your own travel and accommodation arrangements. If you choose to reserve a single room, the Office of Academic Affairs will cover the costs associated with that. All Pcard receipts are to be submitted to Sherry Docherty.
Climate Change Across the Disciplines
April 18-20, 2013
The problem of climate change has of late become the source of numerous critically important academic debates. Often, however, academic discussion of the topic has been limited to the biological and physical sciences, those areas of inquiry that have done the most to bring its challenges into view. This seminar therefore proposes to examine the problem of climate change from the perspectives of the humanities and the humanistic social sciences in order to better understand the problems climate change poses for the project of humanistic inquiry. How does anthropogenic climate change challenge the way we think about ethics, politics and history? In what way does a problem like climate change alter our approaches to the study of literature and other cultural objects? Are the disciplines as constituted adequate to the task? Or does climate change foretell not just substantial changes in the way we organize our economic life, but in the way we organize our forms of knowledge as well?