Monday, August 26, 2019 / Categories: News The Juice (Faculty/Staff) - Aug. 26 View in browser Aug. 26, 2019 Be part of God's Work, Our Hands event All students, faculty and staff are invited to be part of the God’s Work, Our Hands event on campus Sunday, Sept. 8. Redeemer Lutheran Church and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church & School, both in Waverly, will join together with Wartburg to celebrate the ELCA’s nationwide God’s Work, Our Hands event with worship at 9 a.m. in Wartburg Chapel, followed by a variety of service events around the community at 10:30. Participants will receive a t-shirt. Please sign up at bit.ly/WaverlyGWOH and choose your service event. The following items are needed for the service events. Please bring any of the following to the Chapel office (entrance is in the skywalk): • Hand towels, bath towels, and flannel sheets to be used to make diapers; can be gently used but must be clean. • Old and new sheets are needed to make bandages; frayed sheets are OK but they must be clean. Opening Week schedule Tuesday, Aug. 27 Join your colleagues for continental breakfast at 8 a.m. in the McCaskey Lyceum lobby. At 8:30 a.m., new faculty and staff will be introduced prior to President Colson’s Opening Year Remarks in the Lyceum. Opening Chapel Service will be held in the Chapel at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28 Faculty-Staff Picnic begins at 6 p.m. at Greenwood, 902 12th St. N.W., Waverly. RSVP at www.wartburg.edu/picnic and wear your college-issued nametag if you have one. (Rain location: Saemann Student Center) Tuesday, Sept. 3 Opening Convocation is at 10:15 a.m. in Levick Arena to welcome the Class of 2023.This year’s speaker is La Toshia Burrell ’07, assistant director of The W for group fitness and personal training and licensed massage therapist. She also instructs a variety of classes as an adjunct professor and advises students in the health and fitness studies major. Students will be seated in chairs on the floor of the arena; faculty will be seated behind the students. Staff, returning students, and guests will be seated in the east bleachers. Offices that are able to close during that time are encouraged to do so, allowing as many staff as possible to welcome new students to the Wartburg community. All are invited to an All-campus Lunch in the Mensa and Saemann Student Center ballrooms following convocation. Regular office hours resume Summer hours have ended; regular office hours of 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. resume today (Aug. 26). Mail service on Labor Day There is no postal, UPS, or FedEx delivery or outgoing on Labor Day, Sept. 2. There will be NO campus delivery runs on Labor Day due to a combination of the service holiday, staffing, and student move-in. Regular campus deliveries will resume on Tuesday, Sept. 3. 2018-19 reports available on InfoCenter The 2018-19 Graduation Report and Summer Enrollment Report are now available on the Info Center. Sharing Teaching and Advising Strategies Are you interested in talking with your peers about teaching and advising? STAS (Sharing Teaching and Advising Strategies) is open to all faculty and adjuncts no matter where you are in your career or what department you are in on campus. Fall 2019 meetings will be every other Wednesday at 4 p.m. beginning Sept. 18 in the Faculty Resource Room (lower level of the library). Topics vary but focus on building community among faculty and ways to improve how we serve students both in the classroom and out. RSVP and regular attendance are not required. Contact Michaeleen Golay or Kristin Wendland with questions or to join our My.Wartburg group and view agendas. Join us for an informal meeting at 4 p.m. Sept. 4, when we walk to Duo’s for ice cream and celebrate the first day back! Schedule for Presidential Forums Due to President Colson’s travel schedule, updates have been made to the Presidential Forums schedule. Forums will be held at 11:30 a.m. in WBC 214 (Buckmaster room) on the following dates: Oct. 1 (was Sept. 24) Oct. 29 (was Oct. 22) Dec. 3 Feb. 25 March 24 Welcome to The Juice... what is it? The Juice is Wartburg's official weekly e-newsletter full of campus news and events. Look for The Juice on Monday mornings in your Wartburg email inbox and occasionally during the week for important campus announcements. Students, faculty and staff may submit items to be included; the deadline is 4 p.m. each Thursday. Click here to see our email policies and what kind of items are included. Contact Juice editor Stephanie Boeding with questions. PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS Need a new photo taken? Say cheese! All faculty and staff who want to have a studio portrait taken should come to the photo studio Wednesday, Aug. 28, from 1-3 p.m. in the photo studio (new faculty are scheduled from 1-1:45 p.m.). Directions to the photo studio in FAC 52: • Enter the main lobby area of the Bachman Fine Arts Center by the art gallery (windows side, facing the Chapel). • On the right, take the staircase down to the basement • Follow the long hallway about half-way and turn left (clock on the wall for reference). • The studio is the first door on the right. Contact Julie Drewes, visual media manager, with questions. Be part of Hearthside Project This is the ninth year that students and faculty/staff have enjoyed the Hearthside Project. The program provides faculty/staff the opportunity to read a book of their choice with up to three students in an informal environment. Dr. Zak Montgomery will co-facilitate Hearthside as the Slife Professor and invites you to participate in this program. Not only does Hearthside create the context for the reading of part of that “to-read” stack we all have, but the program is a form of advocacy for valuing what we do, as thinkers, as educators, and as citizens swept up in the culture and business of higher education. Each group involves three students and one faculty/staff member. The reading model (how many times you meet and when) and the book choice are yours. Please let Zak Montgomery know if you have any questions or would like to participate this academic year. Board of Regents announces new members The Wartburg College Board of Regents has announced three new members. Barbara Gamez '98 of Rochester, Minn., and Tammy Jackson '83 of Carol Stream, Ill., were each elected to a three-year term. Paul Mugan '91 of Waverly will serve a two-year term as an ex-officio member as the president-elect of the Wartburg Alumni Board. The Board of Regents works with the president to provide fiduciary leadership for the college and is guided by the mission of the institution. HLC approval for online programs Wartburg College has received approval from the HLC to offer online programs as well as approvals of the Post Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Leadership and the online ESL endorsement in education. Thanks to all involved in these efforts, and especially to the leadership team that developed the change requests and represented Wartburg during the HLC visit: Susan Meyeraan, Stephanie TeKippe, Maryam Rod Szabo, Ashley Lang and Fred Waldstein. SPIRITUAL LIFE & CAMPUS MINISTRY Weekday Chapel schedule All are welcome at Weekday Chapel services from 10:15 to 10:35 a.m. each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in the Wartburg Chapel. Chapel time is a brief opportunity to gather with students, staff, and faculty to reflect on God and faith. Interfaith chapels will be held the last Wednesday of each month during the semester. Upcoming services: Wednesday, Sept. 4: Opening Chapel — Pastor Brian Beckstrom Friday, Sept. 6: Senior Chapel — Samantha Pfab ’20 Sunday worship times The following are the Sunday worship times in Wartburg Chapel for Fall Term. Worship begins at 10:30 a.m. unless otherwise noted. All are welcome! Sept. 1: New Student Orientation Sept. 8: God’s Work, Our Hands service day with local churches (register at bit.ly/WaverlyGWOH) Sept. 29: Scholarship Day Oct. 13: Homecoming & Family Weekend (10 a.m., Neumann Auditorium) Nov. 10: Scholarship Day Nov. 17: St. Elizabeth Week Dec. 15: December Commencement (10 a.m.) Sanctuary on Wednesday nights Sanctuary is a holy space in the midst of your busy life where you can recharge and renew. Expect a relaxed time of bible study, fellowship, worship band music, prayers, and communion. It takes place on Wednesday evenings at 9 p.m. in the Chapel Commons (basement), starting Sept. 4. Come by at 8:45 for snacks and fellowship. All are welcome! Upcoming events Regular office hours resume Aug. 26 Faculty workshop Aug. 27-29 Opening Year Remarks & Chapel Service Aug. 27 Studio headshots for faculty and staff Aug. 28 Faculty & Staff Picnic Aug. 28 New student orientation Aug. 31-Sept. 3 Opening Convocation Sept. 3 Fall Term begins Sept. 4 STAS meetings Sept. 4, 18 God's Work, Our Hands event Sept. 8 Presidential Forums Oct. 1, Oct. 29, Dec. 3 Homecoming & Family Weekend Oct. 10-13 Click here for the campus events calendar PROFESSIONAL NEWS A team of faculty and staff attended the 25th annual Vocation of a Lutheran College Conference at Augsburg University in Minneapolis from July 15-17. Dr. Dan Kittle, vice president of student life and dean of students; Dr. Caryn D. Riswold, professor of religion and Mike & Marge McCoy Family Distinguished Chair in Lutheran Heritage and Mission; Dr. Michael Bechtel, assistant professor of science education; Dr. Nana Quaicoe, assistant professor of economics; and Veronica Reece, Pathways associate for vocation and mentoring, met with teams from more than 20 other institutions that are part of the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU) to engage issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in our campus communities. Dr. Stephanie Toering Peters, associate professor of biology, was selected to participate in the Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) STEM Leadership Institute in Adamstown, Maryland, in July. PKAL promotes diversity and inclusion in undergraduate STEM programs through workshops for faculty and administrators. Dr. Caryn Riswold, professor of religion and Mike & Marge McCoy Family Distinguished Chair in Lutheran Heritage & Mission, recently published an essay, “Equity-mindedness and the Vocation of Lutheran Colleges,” at Vocation Matters, the NetVUE Scholars blog. WARTBURG IN THE NEWS Though the Wartburg football team boasts 27 returning seniors and was picked to finish first in the conference in a preseason poll, the battle for a new starting quarterback is expected to continue into the start of the season, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. Max Chinnah ’15, founder of Terraoak, is preparing a sales launch for a portable and smokeless cookstove that was originally designed while Chinnah was a Wartburg student for the Davis Projects for Peace program. Terraoak will donate cookstoves to farmers in rural Kenya, which could decrease the number of people who die each year from the respiratory ailments they suffer from cooking over an open fire in a confined space, according to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. Pat Grau ’11 is a third-generation forester at a sawmill owned by his established by his grandfather in 1948, as reported by the Clayton County Register. Jenny Kordick ’10 was named the first full-time executive director for Maine Outdoor Brands, a trade group that advocates for the state's outdoor recreation industry, as reported by Maine Biz. Fikiswayinkhosi Nkambule ’21 was featured as the up and coming artist in the Swazi Observer for his continued passion for percussion. Dr. Fred Waldstein ’74 weighed in on political trackers for a story in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. Victor, a service dog named in honor of the college's official mascot, Sir Victor, graduated from in-training to a full-fledged service dog on June 29, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. Victor was trained by alums Les ’87 and Marit Scherer ’88 Beisner and their twin sons Noah ’20 and Luke ’20. Logan Merley ’20 is directing the Sheldon High School Summer Theatre's production of "Murder, Ahoy!", as reported by The N'West Iowa Review. CONTACT THE JUICE JUICE GUIDELINES ABOUT THIS EMAIL The Juice is a weekly e-newsletter sent Mondays and occasionally during the week as needed to communicate campus news and events. Most items will run twice, then continue to be available in the Information Center. TO SUBMIT AN ITEM The deadline for submissions each week is 4 p.m. Thursday. Send items to juice@wartburg.edu. Please keep your submitted item short—no longer than one paragraph—and let us know if your item is for students, faculty/staff, or both audiences. 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