Recently four Augsburg College public safety officers, plus Assistant Director Scott Baker, received 24-hour training on bicycles that led to certification by the International Police Mountain Bike Association (IPMBA). This course gives Augsburg officers the skills to safely negotiate urban hazards such as stairs and motor vehicles. The training includes the skills needed to take down and restrain a subject while riding a bike.
“Bicycles are a fantastic way to patrol campus,” director of Public Safety John Pack said. “Officers can take a bike to every corner of campus, including places a vehicle simply can’t go. Plus, an officer on a bike is more connected with the community.” Continue reading “Augsburg adds bicycle patrol to campus”
Three recent Augsburg graduates and one senior are spending their summer working as guides for canoe and backpacking trips around the heartland of Northern Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
After planning and construction for more than three years, the Oren Gateway Center is receiving its finishing touches as students and staff begin to move in.
A new collaborative theater project tells the story of six mothers from different ethnic backgrounds and traditions, across generations, and how they juggle their numerous identities as care-giver, teacher, parent, worker, and leader. This new work, called “The Mother Project” will have a “raw” staging at Michael Sommer’s Open Eye Figure Theatre, 506 East 24th St., Minneapolis, on Sunday, Aug. 19 at 3 p.m.
Growing up in Coon Rapids, Minn., Tami Diehm was fascinated by the “inner city.” Her plan to be a social studies teacher changed when she took a class from political science professor Andy Aoki her freshman year.
Too often, historians overlook the crucial role played by the physical world in the human past. Last fall, students in “Environmental History” (HIS 316) not only learned about the significance of nature in U.S. history, but also applied new perspectives and questions to a semester-long project on the environmental history of Augsburg College.