“This is their job. Hiring the superintendent and setting policy is their job,” Erickson said. “They should take it very seriously.”

He also pointed out that the current board is in a rare situation: interim superintendent Michael Goar is still available should the board decide to offer him the position. Usually, a district’s second and third choices have moved on to other positions at this point in the process.

Video and text versions of the interview are available on the KSTP website, “Minneapolis Public Schools Still Searching for Permanent Superintendent.”

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The seminar, called “The Heart of Europe,” would bring together two Augsburg courses, one each from psychology and education, comparing psychological and education traditions of several central European nations with American practices and history. Erickson and Freiheit met with elementary and secondary school staffs, mental health professionals, professors in a wide variety of fields, and students in both psychology and education. The relationships they established will permit them to develop a full travel seminar proposal with plans for study in Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, and Italy.

Since 1994, Augsburg College has had an international partnership with the University of Ljubljana to develop faculty and student exchanges. While in Slovenia, Erickson said they learned that Augsburg’s partnership with the University of Ljubljana is one of the very few remaining bi-lateral partnerships still functioning between the University and other institutions of higher learning. Recent European higher education reforms have ended nearly all bi-lateral partnerships in Europe, so Augsburg is in a unique position to partner with a very active and enthusiastic faculty without any competition from other institutions.

Erickson and Freiheit also delivered lectures to Slovenian students and met with professors at the University of Ljubljana and the University of Klagenfurt in Klagenfurt, Austria. Financial support for their travel was provided by the Office of the Dean through its internationalization travel fund.

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