On Oct. 18, students from 15 campuses around the United States, including Augsburg, will converge on the Augsburg College campus for the annual student-powered hunger event of the year: the 2007 Campus Kitchen Project Leadership Conference.
The Campus Kitchen Project (CKP) is a student-powered hunger relief organization which partners with 12 schools nationwide, sharing on-campus kitchen spaces, recovering food from on-campus cafeterias and engages students to prepare hundreds of meals for the community. Since starting in 2001, CKP has engaged 11,000 students who have contributed more than 150,000 volunteer hours to prepare and serve 590,000 meals. Continue reading “Campus Kitchen National Conference at Augsburg”
If you have gone to a soccer game in the past few years, you’ve seen the rowdy mob of students with blaze-orange T-shirts flaunting their school spirit
On Thursday, Oct. 4, President Pribbenow and Tom Morgan were esteemed guests at the dedication of the new Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center in South Minneapolis. Augsburg was one of eight colleges asked to sponsor a portion of the school’s basketball court with an urban mural. Retired-General and former Secretary of State Colin Powell participated in the dedication.
The Augsburg campus is bustling with excitement for Homecoming 2007 — and for good reason. This year’s Homecoming will be chock full of Auggie school spirit and fun activities.
On Friday afternoon, Oct. 12, a double celebration will take place — Augsburg will mark the successful completion of Access to Excellence: The Campaign for Augsburg College and formally dedicate the new Oren Gateway Center.
Peter Bisanz will present “One: The Documentary” on Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 10 a.m. in the Hoversten Chapel. Bisanz marks the second in a series of Convocations called “Many Voices Bold Vision.” Bisanz will talk on the fundamental issues facing our world today, and how faith, religion, and spirituality can inspire peaceful and compassionate solutions.
Homecoming Convocation, held Friday, Oct. 12, at 10 a.m. in Hoversten Chapel, will honor our Distinguished Alumni, First Decade, and Spirit of Augsburg awardees along with our 50-year club members and faculty and staff emeriti.
As a transfer student to Augsburg, I can honestly attest that another college would not have prepared me as well for this potentially rocky transition that I now find myself in – the transition from student to working adult.
Having the opportunity to work with a professional theater company before you’ve even graduated from college is something you don’t think twice about. Unless you’re me.
Augsburg College is part of a national initiative that provides prospective students and their families with public information on more than 565 college and universities across the nation. The web-based component of this initiative, called U-CAN, was developed by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and will be available to the public Sept. 26.