President Steven C. Bahls' speeches and statements
2012
Tuesday Reflection: September 11: Using Uncertainty to Reflect on Our Calling
First-Year Convocation: Employing Critical Thinking in the Power of Persuasion
Commencement: Your education will sustain you
Honors Convocation: Ensuring perception is not reality
2011
First-Year Convocation: Wanted: Leaders Who Think Too Much
Education Executive: Augustana College: A Leading Education
Inside Higher Ed: Teach Financial Literacy
Commencement: A Lifetime Pass from Augustana
Honors Convocation: Avoiding the Lazy Approach to Critical Thinking
2010
Chronicle: Shared faculty governance: an essential institution
Convocation for first-year students: Critical thinking
Opening convocation: Our 150th year
Honors convocation: The habit of understanding
Commencement: 150 years of servant-leaders
Northern Illinois Synod Assembly: Give, and it will be given to you
Sesquicentennial: Augustana as a Messenger of Christian Humility
Five Faith Commitments: Proactively expressing the college's roots with today's students
2009
Convocation for first-year students: 'Dreams from my Father'
Chapel reflection: Listening for whispers
Honors Convocation: Asking the inconvenient question
Commencement: Nothing is constant but change
Quad City Chamber speech: When the economy is in quicksand, keep on moving
Campus speech: Impact of nation's financial crisis on Augustana College
Reflection: Letter to Angie
Report: The president's annual report to the college and alumni
2008
Honors Convocation:: Critical thinking about critical thinking
Homily: Three Attributes of a Strong Community
Oath ceremony speech: Creative lawyering in a changing world
Statement: Impact of nation's financial crisis
Chamber keynote: Maintaining our nerve while Wall Street loses its
Campus speech: Tradition, change and truthiness
North Scott assembly: The vocational calling of heroes
Speech: Liberal arts and professional education: a call for philosopher-servants
Report: The president's annual report to the college and alumni
2007
Honors Convocation: Turning the crystal: four years later
Commencement: Recalculating
Sermon: Transfiguration and transformation
Sermon: Lessons from Jonah
2006
Honors Convocation: Philosopher servants
Commencement: Asking the tough questions
Ethics conference: Exploring the many facets of the health care crisis
2005
Founder's Day: 100 years of Augustana in China
Convocation for first-year students: In praise of reflection
Honors Convocation: Trees of life and knowledge
Commencement: The last inning
Augustana Magazine: The courage of learning
2004
Founder's Day: What would our Swedish Lutheran founders think?
Convocation for first-year students: In praise of imagination
Commencement: Through the eyes of others
Homily: Who is your Lazarus?
Williamsfield commencement: The road not taken
Lecture series: Encouraging ethical conduct for multinational businesses
Augustana Magazine: An eyeful
Augustana Magazine: Food for the soul
President's report: Pulling together
2003
Statement: On the election of the president
Inaugural address: Liberal arts education and courageous servant leadership
Convocation for first-year students: Turning the crystal
Homily: Justice and mercy
Engineers' address: The role of liberal arts in science education
Speech: Vocational reflection
Speech: The law school admissions case of Grutter V. Bollinger
Reflection: Learning from Tim's health problems
Reflection: Our first Augustana Christmas
