The Naeseth Writing Scholarship is awarded to students who show exceptional promise as writers and English majors. Each year, Augustana awards several Naeseth Writing Scholarships in amounts of $1,000, renewable annually, to students who participate in one of the Academic Scholarship Days on campus. The event provides students the opportunity to learn more about the English department and then, write an essay to compete for the scholarship award.
The Tredway Library Prize for First-Year Research recognizes an outstanding research paper written by a first-year Augustana student for a class in the Liberal Studies or Honors sequence. The award promotes students' active engagement in the processes of library research and encourages them to synthesize library research skills with the reading, writing and critical thinking skills developed in the first-year sequence.
SAGA is Augustana's art and literary magazine. Each year the editors and review board award more than $2,000 in prize money to the year's best submissions.
The Audre Lorde Prize, named in honor of Audre Lorde (1934-1992), the intersectional feminist writer and civil rights activist who penned the foundational text Sister Outsider (1984), are given annually by the Augustana Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program. They recognize excellence in scholarship in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the undergraduate level.
The Eddy Mabry Diversity Award recognizes academic work by dedicated students who have demonstrated a significant commitment to enhancing multicultural awareness at Augustana. Submissions included works that explore issues related to diversity and multiculturalism such as social class, culture, race/ethnicity, sex/gender, sexuality, disability, and religion.
Awarded by the English department at the end of each year to the year's outstanding senior English and creative writing majors.
Rebecca Hopman never expected to meet one of the most influential people in her life when she was a student worker in Augustana's Special Collections. But Lydia Olsson’s diaries sparked a connection across time for Hopman — and a career devoted to preserving stories like Olsson’s.
Twelve faculty members advance in their careers at the college.
Augustana's fall Symposium Day 2024 invited big ideas from any and all disciplines, welcoming presentations from students, faculty and staff, and distinguished guests — including keynote speaker Dr. Roosevelt Montás from Columbia University and Dr. Chris Hedlin '11 from the University of Notre Dame.
Enjoy a night of poetry with Mark Turcotte, the sixth Illinois Poet Laureate, and Augustana student writers.
