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Thousands will gather on campus this weekend, Oct. 4-6, for Augustana’s Homecoming/Family Weekend. Reunion dinners and gatherings; bingo for graduates of the last decade; music recitals and concerts; open houses; a picnic on the Quad; and family programming are planned.
Think you’re busy? You’re probably not as busy as Alicia Oken ‘13. She is the social media platforms director for the Democratic National Committee, part of a team creating “one of the most inventive and irreverent get-out-the-vote strategies in modern politics,” according to The Washington Post.
Augustana Possible, the college’s new financial aid program, is doing exactly what its name suggests. Since being launched two years ago, it has made Augustana accessible to 339 high-achieving students from families with high financial need.
Five student-athletes — from hometowns in Illinois, Hawai'i, Texas and Tennessee — are the college's most recent Academic All-Americans. Now with 183 Academic All-Americans, Augustana ranks 14th among the NCAA’s 1,100 schools in DI, DII and DIII across the country.
INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine's Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award recognizes colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion. This is the fifth time the college has earned this national recognition.
The Class of 2028 was selected from across the globe from an unprecedented 9,000+ applications, surpassing last year's record of 8,200 applications. The class includes 677 first-year students and 80 transfer students, from 26 states and 33 countries.
The Augustana women's volleyball team plays University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
In this talk, based on her new book, "Wrong," Dr. Dannagal Young unpacks how our social identities (how we think of ourselves as part of our political teams) encourage us to believe things that are untrue. She explores how our media system fuels "us versus them" dynamics in ways that reinforce and distill these identities, keeping our demand for identity-reinforcing falsehoods high. Fortunately, there are ways out of this doom loop, and Dr. Young will explain what we all can do to reduce our appetite for "wrongness."
The 2024 Fall River Readings will welcome Tabish Khair on Wednesday, Oct. 9.
