Musictech College collaborates with Augsburg

St. Paul-based Musictech College of Music and Recording Arts and Augsburg have announced a new collaborative arrangement enabling Musictech students enrolled in its music performance programs to transfer their two years of Musictech credits directly to Augsburg and complete a four-year bachelor's program in music.

"Many music students, and their parents, have wanted to complete a four-year bachelor's degree at our two-year school—yet most traditional academic settings don't provide the real-world contemporary music education and state-of-the-art studios that Musictech provides," notes Doug Smith, co-founder and vice president/education director of Musictech College.

"Musictech and Augsburg's arrangement is the best of both worlds," explains Smith. "For example, a Musictech student can now specialize in music performance for two years here in St. Paul, and then transfer to Augsburg to complete the final two years of a four-year degree in music education and become a high school band leader."

"Our new relationship with Musictech College is a boon for Augsburg's students," adds Robert Stacke, Augsburg music department chair and director of bands. "Augsburg offers Musictech students its excellence in music education, music therapy, and performance, while Musictech provides its remarkable faculty of working musicians and its expertise in such areas as music business, in-studio recording engineering and production, and improvisation."

Augsburg and Musictech have also established a scholarship fund for students who enroll at Musictech College with the intention of transferring to Augsburg.

Musictech College, which opened its $3.6 million school in St. Paul last January, has more than 250 students learning guitar, bass, keyboards, voice, percussion, brass, and woodwinds; motion imaging; as well as recording technology, music production, and the music business. Augsburg has more than 350 students who take music classes or perform in musical ensembles.


Alexa Halford wins national award for paper

Senior physics major and McNair Scholar Alexa Halford was awarded an Outstanding Student Paper Award for her poster presentation at the 2002 spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union's Space Physics and Aeronomy Section. Both graduate and undergraduate students compete for these awards.

Her winning paper presentation is titled "Latitudinal and seasonal variations of quasi-periodic and periodic-ELF-VLF emissions," and was co-authored by Halford, [Professor] Mark Engebretson, and [Augsburg physics staff] Jennifer Posch; with Andy Smith, British Antarctic Survey; and Urman Inan, Stanford University.

The remaining presentations are:

Nov. 11, 2002
Mark Swanson and Amin Kader
"Islam and Christianity: Religious Resources for Living with Differences"

Jan. 20, 2003
Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation
Prince Cedza Dlamini (Nelson Mandela's grandson), "From Victim to Victor: The Truth and Reconciliation Model of Forgiveness"

Feb. 10, 2003
Victoria Barnett and Barry D. Cytron, "Jews and Christians in Dialogue"

March 6-7, 2003
2003 Batalden Seminar in Applied Ethics
Lewis B. Smedes, "From Alienation to Reconciliation"

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