Jodi Collen, Augsburg College’s director of Event and Conference Planning, wrote a quick-tips column for event planners that was published by Twin Cities Business. Collen offered suggestions for people who will host a tailgating event for teams, customers, or clients this fall. Her advice ranged from venue considerations to food safety.
Collen is the current international president of the International Special Events Society and is a past president of the ISES Minneapolis-St. Paul chapter.聽Visit the Twin Cities Business website to read, “.”
John Shockley, an Augsburg College political science instructor, recently was quoted in an article from聽MinnPost’s media section regarding newsroom decision-making and editorial judgment.
History Professor Bill Green聽spoke with WCCO-TV about why Minnesotans are quick to defend their state’s image.
This summer, Sod House — a theater company founded by Augsburg College Chair of Theater Arts聽Darcey Engen 鈥�88聽and her husband, Luverne Seifert 鈥�83 — brought a聽production of 鈥淗oopla Train (with Yard Master Yip and his Polkastra)鈥澛爐o 14 historic ballrooms in different Minnesota cities聽including聽Barrett, McGregor, Nisswa, and Sleepy Eye.
Harry Boyte, senior scholar in public work philosophy for Augsburg’s Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, described the importance of citizen professionals in a recent article for the Huffington Post. Boyte explained that places like Augsburg College are ripe with students preparing to become聽“citizen nurses” and “citizen teachers” who will serve as change agents in their future careers.
The online media聽resource Bring Me The News shared a compilation of information about the Augsburg College River Semester, a three-and-a-half month program in which students and faculty members will traverse the Mississippi River from St. Paul to New Orleans while studying topics in the arts, humanities, and sciences. As the story noted, “Students will sleep in campsites instead of dorm rooms and will paddle rather than walk聽to their classes this fall.”
Augsburg College’s first-ever River Semester will be聽an opportunity for students to spend the聽fall and early winter months traveling from St. Paul to New Orleans in 24-foot voyageur canoes on the Mississippi River. Participants will study topics ranging from ecology to history to literature.
Howling Bird Press, a student-run press run out of the Augsburg MFA in Creative Writing program,聽is bringing out its first book.