Do you love to read and talk about books? Have you been thinking about joining a book club, but haven’t found an opportunity that works for you? Would you like to get to know co-workers outside of your department? If the answer is yes, then you’re in luck!

The CSP Library will be hosting a “for fun” book club open to Faculty and Staff. Day and time to meet will be determined by what best fits the schedule for the majority of attendees. Atonement by Ian McEwan has been chosen as the initial book, but subsequent titles will be picked by the group members.

If you’re interested in participating, please contact Greg Argo (argo@csp.edu) or Jeanine Gatzke (gatzke@csp.edu) by January 30th. We’re shooting to have the first meeting near the end of February. And happy reading!

The Department of Religion and Theology will host a book-signing party for Dr. Tom Trapp on Tuesday, Dec. 2, at noon in the library, for his recently published translation of Martin Luther’s Theology: A Contemporary Interpretation by Oswald Bayer.

A Turning Technologies representative will be on campus July 9 at 9 am in LTC 219. If you can make time, please join us!

This student response system is designed to help engage the computer generation. It can be used for everything from taking attendance, checking if students understood the reading, verifying if students understood the main concepts, giving you a sense of students’ base knowledge, etc. The two Semester Research project managed by the Reed Group, LLC in partnership with Thomson Learning, Turning Technologies and the University of Illinois found that 87% of students were more likely to attend class and 72% more students were likely to participate in class.

Traveling Exhibit Tells Unknown Story of German-American
Civilian Internment in the United States during World War II

The Traces Center for History and Culture will bring their traveling museum to Concordia University on April 8th.  The Bus-Museum will be open for viewing between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.  The bus will be parked outside the theatre building in the parking lot on Hamline Avenue. 

At 12 noon in the Buetow Auditorium (music building), Michael Luick-Thrams, who was interned in a camp along with other Germans and Japanese for 4 years and was almost deported, will present his powerful story. 

Both the Bus-Museum and the Presentation are free and open to the public.