In the mid-20th century, Joel Torstenson<\/a>, who founded and chaired the sociology department, design new ways to manifest that motto through required field experience and the creation of a Social Science Research Center which engaged students and faculty in participatory action research. During this time Augsburg was referred to as “a College of the City,” reflecting the idea that our urban setting was an asset that invited expansion and pedagogical consideration. In 1967, Torstenson authored a paper titled “The Liberal Arts College and the Modern Metropolis” which was reviewed and endorsed by the faculty, leading to a complete revision of the curriculum to emphasize urban concerns.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In 1977, a year before his retirement, Torstenson convinced his colleagues that it was critical to find a successor who was committed to experiential, community-based education and urban studies, and thus\u00a0Garry Hesser<\/a> was brought to Augsburg. Under Hesser\u2019s leadership, and made possible by his fundraising efforts, Augsburg entered a new phase of service-learning. Staff positions dedicated to experiential education and service-learning were created, and practices further integrated into curriculum. For a more detailed account of Augsburg’s experiential education history throughout the 1980s and 90s, see Garry Hesser’s\u00a0On the Shoulders of Giants: Building on a Tradition of Experiential Education<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The following documents provide more background on Augsburg’s history with experiential education.<\/p>\n Augsburg Experience and Engaging Minneapolis original framing document<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Community Service-Learning at Augsburg College: A Handbook for Instructors (1994)\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Foundations of Experiential Education and Service Learning<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by Garry Hesser<\/span><\/p>\n Lesson on Vocation and Location: The Saga of Augsburg College as Urban Settlement<\/span>\u00a0by Paul Pribbenow<\/span><\/p>\n On the Shoulders of Giants: Building on a Tradition of Experiential Education<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by Garry Hesser<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This website is the product of a strategic initiative conducted during the 2017\/2018 academic year. The following links are presentations and documents created in conjunction with that strategic initiative and subsequent work.<\/p>\n Experiential Education Focused Conversation, April 2018<\/a><\/p>\n Experiential Education at Augsburg CTL presentation, May 2018<\/a><\/p>\n Vocation Portfolio Focused Conversation presentation, March 2019<\/a><\/p>\n Signature Experience and Problem-based Learning:\u00a0<\/span>A topic paper to inform Augsburg 150, December 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the Shoulders of Giants Experiential education plays a prominent role in\u00a0the history of Augsburg University. Augsburg\u2019s second president,\u00a0Georg Sverdrup (1876-1907), required students to get pre-ministerial experience in city congregations and early in the 20th century Augsburg adopted the motto of \u201cEducation for Service.\u201d This motto reinforced the Scandinavian\u00a0traditions and social ethic of community involvement, … Continue reading “History”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/experientialed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/experientialed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/experientialed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/experientialed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/experientialed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/experientialed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/experientialed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/experientialed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Portrait](\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/03\/Garry_Hesser.jpg\")
Experiential Education Historic Documents<\/h3>\n
Strategic work<\/h3>\n