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The zone moreover is home to material ripened for media well-nigh College-related programs, events, and more. ADVISORY: World Leaders Meet September 14-15 for Nobel Peace Prize Forum in Minneapolis Posted on September 12, 2018September 12, 2018 by Gita Sitaramiah The Paradox of Peace is focus of leaders, activists (MINNEAPOLIS) — The 30th yearly Nobel Peace Prize Forum will explore the tensions between mismatch and reconciliation, between justice and forgiveness, between hope and fear.  Join us September 14-15 in Minneapolis to honor Nobel Peace Prize laureates who have navigated these paradoxes. Guest speakers include: Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the 2017 Nobel laureate. Environmental objector Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Maya Soetoro-Ng, President of the Matsunaga Institute and President Barack Obama’s sister Nobel laureate Peter Agre, an Augsburg alumnus Members of EcoPeace, including Israeli, Jordanian, and Palestinian activists, who are using water as a peacemaking tool Bill Dougherty of the University of Minnesota and his Police and Black Men Project participants Ecolab CEO Doug Baker Friday’s program will kick off with discussion of the peace process in Colombia and the ongoing challenges of implementing the peace accord. In 2016 Colombia’s President Santos received the Nobel Peace Prize “for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s increasingly than 50-year-long starchy war to an end.” Saturday’s program will focus on the challenges of ridding the world of the nuclear weapons that threaten the very existence of life on earth and full-length Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. For increasingly details well-nigh the program and speakers, go to http://peace.augsburg.edu/   LOCATION The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Forum will be held at the Augsburg University campus, 2211 Riverside Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55454. Information and tickets are misogynist at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum website.   MEDIA CONTACT Gita Sitaramiah at sitarami@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1476.   ABOUT THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FORUM The Nobel Peace Prize Forum, hosted and presented by Augsburg University, brings together students and polity members with Nobel Peace Prize laureates, world leaders and workaday peacemakers to work on towers a world in which people can live full, rich, meaningful lives. Under the auspices of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the Nobel Peace Prize Forum inspires peacemaking by focusing on the work of laureates and international peacemakers and peacebuilders.Increasinglyat Nobel Peace Prize Forum.   ABOUT AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY Augsburg University offers increasingly than 50 undergraduate majors and nine graduate degrees to nearly 3,600 students of diverse backgrounds at its campus in the vibrant part-way of the Twin Cities and the Rochester site. Augsburg educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, hair-trigger thinkers, and responsible leaders. An Augsburg education is specified by excellence in the liberal arts and professional studies, guided by the faith and values of the Lutheran church, and shaped by its urban and global settings. Posted in Media Advisories Congratulations to Auggies named to the Summer semester Dean’s List Posted on September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 by Briana AlamillaIncreasinglythan 100 Augsburg University undergraduate students were named to the 2018 Summer Semester Dean’s List. The Augsburg University Dean’s List recognizes those full-time students who have achieved a grade point stereotype of 3.50 or higher and those part-time students who have achieved a grade point stereotype of 3.75 or higher in a given term. View the 2018 Summer Semester Dean’s List. Students who wish to notify their hometown newspapers of their victory can do so at their discretion using a news utterance template. Posted in StudentsTagged Dean's List KSTP documents River Semester Posted on August 29, 2018August 29, 2018 by Briana Alamilla Joe Underhill, River Semester program director. Fifteen Auggies are paddling lanugo the Mississippi River for 100 days while learning well-nigh history, politics, and the environment for 16 credits. An experiential education is a trademark of an Augsburg education. “We do this considering we think this is the weightier way to learn both well-nigh the Mississippi River and to learn in unstipulated well-nigh what’s going on out in the world,” said River Semester program director Joe Underhill, who will be teaching withal the way. For many students, this is their first time camping. “I’ve never camped, never canoed in my life. I’m nervous considering it’s out of my repletion zone but I’m very excited to see what it’s going to be like”, student Kristy Ornelas told KSTP. This is Augsburg’s second River Semester. The first was in 2015. Watch full report on KSTP’s website. Posted in In the Media, Uncategorized Media Advisory: River Semester students hike Mississippi on Thursday, launch Friday to canoe for 100 days Posted on August 22, 2018August 22, 2018 by Gita Sitaramiah Media invited to interview students at Thursday sendoff from Augsburg and Friday’s launch recurrence at Fort Snelling (MINNEAPOLIS) — Augsburg University River Semester students will paddle the Mississippi for 100 days starting Friday. The 15 students will learn well-nigh history, politics, the environment and increasingly as they canoe the Mississippi. They will paddle from Fort Snelling to Memphis in this unique semester-long experience. In addition, they will be joined by Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian activists from EcoPeace Middle East pursuit Augsburg’s Nobel Peace Prize Forum on Sept. 14-15. View the full River Semester itinerary at this link: http://www.augsburg.edu/river/river-semester-itinerary/. For increasingly details well-nigh River Semester, go to http://www.augsburg.edu/river. This is the second-ever River Semester. The first was in 2015. Media Opportunities: Thursday, August 23: The group will gather at 9:00 a.m. on the front steps of the ChristensenPart-wayat Augsburg University, and hike well-nigh 9:30 a.m. the nine miles to Fort Snelling State Park. The group of 15 students, two faculty, two staff, and family and friends who will hike with them, will walk withal the river gorge, stopping at Minnehaha Falls park for lunch surpassing standing on to Fort Snelling and their first zany site at Picnic Island. Friday, August. 24: The group will have a short ceremony, send-off and “blessing of the fleet” at 7:30 a.m. at the wend ramp proximal to Picnic Island at Fort Snelling. The gate to the park opens at 7:00 a.m., and there is a $7 archway fee (unless you have a Minnesota State Park yearly pass). Once in the park, follow signs to Picnic Island. There is zaftig parking there and the group will be hands visible once you are in the parking lot. Media Contact: Gita Sitaramiah, Director of Public Relations and Internal Communications, sitarami@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1476. Posted in Media Advisories Tara Sweeney’s Swedish picture typesetting project highlighted at Twin Cities PBS Posted on August 10, 2018August 10, 2018 by Briana Alamilla Tara Sweeney on TPT. Twin Cities PBS featured retired Augsburg art professor Tara Sweeney’s collaborative “A to Zåäo” picture typesetting project at the American Swedish Institute. “A to Zåäö,” is a Swedish alphabet typesetting that features paintings of objects and stories from the historic Swedish-American immigrant experience. “The objects are the things that immigrants brought to Minnesota and I have to believe they were traveling pretty light. So they brought things that meant something to them and/or they were useful, so they’re loaded with stories.” Sweeney told TPT’s Minnesota Original art series. Sweeney credits her 25 years of service at Augsburg and its institutional mission for influencing her interest in developing a picture typesetting that speaks to historic and trendy immigrant experiences. View the segment at Twin Cities PBS Posted in Faculty, In the Media Jeanne Boeh discusses the value of a higher stratum with WCCO Posted on August 1, 2018August 22, 2018 by Briana Alamilla   Jeanne Boeh on WCCO Jeanne Boeh, professor of economics and merchantry department chair at Augsburg University, recently spoke with WCCO well-nigh the rising forfeit of a higher education. Boeh noted that a higher stratum is still worth it. “It is a different experience than it was 20 years ago. All the suavities have improved. There is increasingly support for students. The dorms are better. The supplies is better. The kind of help students need is increasingly available. All of that financing money,” Boeh told reporter Angela Davis. Read and watch the full report at the WCCO site. Posted in Faculty, In the Media Support for Associate Professor Mzenga Wanyama Posted on July 26, 2018September 6, 2018 by Gita Sitaramiah (Updated 9/5/2018) Augsburg University is sharing this preliminaries well-nigh the immigration specimen involving Associate Professor Mzenga Wanyama to alimony our campus and the public informed. Status with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement The Board of Immigration Appeals has granted a stay of removal. As a result, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can’t deport Mzenga Wanyama and Mary Mzenga until the Board issues a visualization on the merits of the motion to reopen his madhouse case. ICE had previously informed Dr. Wanyama and his wife Mary Mzenga that they were required to depart the United States on September 9. That had been extended flipside 30 days, surpassing the stay of removal was granted late August 31. “We are saddened that Dr. Wanyama continues to squatter this difficult situation,” said Paul Pribbenow, president of Augsburg University. “We value his scholarship and skill set and are exploring options for him to protract working in Augsburg’s global operations if he can’t stay in the U.S.”PreliminariesOn April 5, Dr. Wanyama and his wife were informed in a meeting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that ICE would indulge them 90 days to depart the United States. During a June 29 meeting ICE confirmed that it had extended their throw-away stage from July 4 to August 3. The ICE office had asked them to return to the office on July 25 for a check-in. On July 25, ICE then informed Dr. Wanyama and his wife Mary Mzenga that they would have to depart the United States on September 9. He was required to bring his plane tickets with a September 9 throw-away data to a check-in visit with ICE on September 4. His September 9 throw-away was later extended 30 days. Meanwhile, a motion to reopen Dr. Wanyama’s madhouse using based on reverted country conditions and a stay of removal was filed older this summer with the Board of Immigration Appeals. Once ICE was unwilling to use its discretionary validity any longer, his shyster requested the emergency review of the stay of removal that was granted August 31. If the stay had not granted, he and his wife would most likely have had to leave the U.S. in October. Dr. Wanyama is teaching fall semester 2018 classes in the English department. Augsburg University statements Augsburg issued a statement from Augsburg President Paul C. Pribbenow pursuit the Wanaymas’ April 5 ICE meeting, as well as statements surpassing and pursuit the previous ICE meeting, on March 9. These statements are posted below: March 8 statement March 9 statement April 5 statement  Augsburg UniversitySenseSenate statement TheSenseSenate of Augsburg University wishes to express our unanimous and unconditional support for our friend and colleague, Professor Mzenga Wanyama. We urge all those who superintendency well-nigh Professor Wanyama to consider signing the petition on his behalf at https://www.change.org/p/augsburg-university-support-augsburg-professor-mzenga-wanyama. Augsburg University sense statement The Augsburg University sense calls on the U.S. government to halt plans for the unjust deportation of our colleague Professor Mzenga Wanyama and his spouse and Augsburg nursing student Mary Mzenga and to permit their unfurled work and residence in the US. We stand versus the anti-immigrant sentiment that is prompting the current wave of deportations and proudly underpin our status as an institution that supports the many immigrant and refugee members of our wonk community. Website A website, www.mzenga.com, has been created by friends and supporters of Mzenga and Mary Wanyama. The site includes a statement from the Wanyamas, information well-nigh the next Immigration and Customs Enforcement meeting, and information well-nigh getting involved and providing support. Work passport and sponsorship Augsburg University complies with federal law that requires employers to verify that employees are eligible to work in the United States. Dr. Wanyama has passport to work in the United States, issued by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. Sponsorship for permanent resident status is not an option at this time due to a restriction related to a J-1 two-year home residency requirement. The two-year home residency requirement ways that those who come to the U.S. in J-1 status cannot wilt permanent residents in the U.S., transpiration status, or get work or family-based visa status until they return to their country of last permanent residence for at least two years cumulatively. A request to waive the two-year home residency requirement was filed several years ago, but the waiver was denied. Augsburg is working with legal counsel to pursue all options misogynist to us under the current scenario. Posted in Faculty, In the Media, Media Advisories Kare 11’s Jana Shortal discusses civility with Minnesota Urban Debate League students Posted on July 24, 2018 by Briana Alamilla Marshall Steele and Sandy Bolton on Kare 11. Kare 11’s Jana Shortal interviews Marshall Steele, from CentralUpperSchool, and Sandy Bolton, from RooseveltUpperSchool, well-nigh starchy debate. Both students attended Augsburg’s Minnesota Urban Debate League summer camp, a program which provides resources and programming to support competitive wonk debate at Twin Cities upper schools and middle schools. How can emotion and civility co-exist? Shortal asked. “Try to understand people’s points even if there’s something you fundamentally disagree with,” Bolton said. “There are backgrounds that lead to people having opinions that are insensitive but have fundamental reasoning overdue them that you have to understand in order to engage with them well.” See the full interview on Kare 11’s website. Posted in In the Media Augsburg Names Robert Gould Vice President for Strategic Enrollment Management Posted on July 1, 2018August 22, 2018 by Gita Sitaramiah Robert Gould began July 1 as Augsburg’s new vice president for strategic enrollment management. With a preliminaries in both the liberal arts and professional studies, Robert brings a wealth of wits in strategic planning for traditional undergraduate enrollment as well as recruiting sultana learners in undergraduate, graduate and document programs. He is tightly single-minded to student access, inclusion and success. He has a strong track record in financial aid strategy, recruitment analytics, and equipping campus sense and staff partners to powerfully support the recruitment effort and serve as ambassadors of the institution. Most recently, Robert served as vice president for enrollment management at Washington and JeffersonHigherin Washington, Pennsylvania. Prior to that, he held cabinet-level positions in enrollment and in finance and operations at Green MountainHigherin Poultney and Killington, Vermont, and at AlbanyHigherof Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Albany, New York, and Colchester, Vermont. Robert began his career in admissions, with progressively greater enrollment management responsibilities at several New York institutions: IonaHigherin New Rochelle, IthacaHigherin Ithaca, and Hudson ValleyPolityCollege in Troy.  Robert holds a master of science in corporate communications from IthacaHigherand a wifeless of science in merchantry and public management from State University of New York at Utica. He has presented at national higher education enrollment conferences and has served in volunteer and leadership roles for non-profit science, pharmacy, historical society, and children’s services organizations. Posted in Staff, Uncategorized Twin Cities mayors judged Augsburg’s yearly Great Education Debate Posted on June 19, 2018 by Briana Alamilla Mayors Jacob Frey and Melvin Carter at the debate. Photo by Andy Mannix – Star Tribune. Jacob Frey and Melvin Carter, the new mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul, served as judges June 7 at the Minnesota Urban Debate League’s Great Education Debate at Augsburg. Augsburg’s urban debate league program provides resources and programming to support competitive wonk debate at Twin Cities upper schools and middle schools. The goal is to empower students through competitive wonk debate to wilt engaged learners, hair-trigger thinkers, and zippy citizens who are constructive advocates for themselves and their communities. At the debate, four students presented arguments on the topic of investing in career technical education as an volitional to four-year higher degrees. Both Frey and Carter gave tips and feedback to the participants. “You have mastered a skill that has largely been lost in American society, which is the worthiness to debate respectfully,” Frey told the students. See full story on the Star Tribune page. Learn increasingly well-nigh the Minnesota Urban Debate League here. 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