28 August - Opening Convocation

To: Faculty and Administrative Staff

The Convocation Program will include a formal acceptance of the new students by the faculty as well as recognition of the newly tenured and/or promoted faculty. As always, faculty and administrative staff are invited to wear their academic regalia and process by rank. The procession line-up list will be posted in the North Gym. Faculty and staff, marching in pairs, will process from the North Gym and enter the auditorium from the northeast corner.

Following the Opening Convocation, the orientation clubs will exit the Field House and assemble on Olin Hill for a brief ceremony to 'toss the beanies.' All faculty and staff are invited to participate in this tradition. As we start this new academic year I want to wish you well and thank you for all that you do for Concordia.

CONVOCATION SCHEDULE - THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 2006

8:00-9:00 Abbreviated first class session

9:10 Faculty/Administrative Staff Convocation procession forms in North Gym of the Field House

9:20 Procession begins Convocation Program

10:10 Beanie Toss on Olin Hill 10:30 Class begins

24 August - Advisor Update

TO: Faculty/Advisors

FROM: Carole Stalheim

Advisor packets will be delivered to the departments on Friday, August 25 at 10:00 A.M.

For the advisor-advisee meeting on Tuesday, August 29 at 2:30 P.M. you should have received in your packet a printed schedule of classes for all new students who have pre-registered for the Fall 2006 Semester. If the students do not need an individual appointment with you to change their classes, please initial the schedule and give it to the student. These students will complete the registration process with their orientation club.

Registration will be held in the Olson Forum on August 29 at 8:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. and August 30 at 8:30 A.M. to 1:00 P.M.

Thank you. I am looking forward to working with you during the 2006-2007 academic year.

Carole Stalheim Registrar

23 August - Interim CIO

To the Concordia Community,

Dr. Thomas Moberg has agreed to serve as the interim Chief Information Officer during the 2006-2007 academic year. Dr. Moberg retired from his position as Vice Provost and CIO at NDSU this summer and joins us in an interim role as we continue the search for the permanent CIO. Dr. Moberg's experience, including service at St. Louis University and Grinnell, gives him a wealth of experience that he will bring to the College. Dr. Moberg will be starting on September 5th and will focus much of his initial efforts in identifying the integrating computing and data management needs of the college as we work towards implementation of the Strategic Plan initiatives.

Please welcome him to campus.

Mark J. Krejci, Ph.D.

Dean of the College & Vice President for Academic Affairs

16 August - Career Center Program

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Donald Asher's presence on campus will be a unique and enriching opportunity for our students and faculty. I believe that our role as advisors is key in helping our students prepare for service to the world through their employment after college. Please encourage your students to attend these events and I want to ask that at least one member from each department attend the noon lunch session on October 3rd.

Mark J. Krejci, Ph.D.

Dean of the College & Vice President for Academic Affairs

From the Career Center:

Dear Concordia faculty,

August greetings! As you are making plans for the Fall semester, the Career Center staff is asking you to consider October 2 and 3 as two days to partner with our department. We are hosting Donald Asher, an author of nine books specializing in careers and higher education and a national speaker that presents at over 100 colleges and universities annually. (Additional biographical information about Donald Asher is below.) At Concordia, Mr. Asher will share his expertise on the following topics:

October 2 - Centrum, Knutson Center "Bound for Graduate School - Strategies to Gain Admission to Highly Competitive Graduate Programs" - 2 to 3 p.m "How to Beat 1000-to-1 Odds to Win That Job, Internship, or Summer Opportunity" - 9 to 10 p.m. October 3 - Centrum, Knutson Center "Meaning, Morality and Career Choice: How to Do Well While Being True to Yourself" - Chapel at 9:50 a.m. "Major, Minor, Meanie, Moe: How to Choose a Major and Why You can Follow Your Dreams and Still Be Career Ready" - 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

October 3 - Birkeland Lounge "Better Graduate School Advising" Faculty luncheon from 12 to 1 p.m. (Please RSVP to the Career Center, x3020 or career@cord.edu. Space is limited)

The first four sessions listed above are open to all students, staff and faculty. The Career Center staff is so confident in the content of each of the sessions that we recommend either bringing classes to the lectures or offering attendance as a class assignment.

More information will follow but if you have questions please contact me.

JAY THORESON Career Center Director Concordia College Moorhead MN 56562 Phone: 218-299-3020 Fax: 218-299-3572 thoreson@cord.edu www.ConcordiaCareerCenter.com

 

Additional information: Donald Asher is a nationally known speaker and writer specializing in the topics of careers and higher education. The author of nine books, he has speaking and media engagements over one hundred days a year, including frequent appearances on college and university campuses. Asher has spoken at Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore, Caltech, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford, the University of Chicago, Harvey Mudd, and over a hundred other schools. His hobby for the last ten years has been touring college and university campuses. These experiences, combined with the fact that he has two daughters wrestling with the college-choice decision, served as the catalyst for him to write a recent book, Cool Colleges: For the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different.

Through his San Francisco-based firm, Asher Associates, Asher provides staffing transition assistance to corporations and one-on-one coaching to executives in career transition. He also provides career development workshops for corporations, nonprofits, and colleges and universities nationwide.

Asher has been a contributing writer to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, the Los Angeles Times' career-support Web site, the award-winning Jobsmart.org career-support Web site, the National Association of Colleges and Employers' Journal, the Western Association of Colleges and Employers' Connections, and the Wall Street Journal's National Business Employment Weekly and Managing Your Career magazines, among many others.