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Campus update for May 13, 2020
May 13, 2020
Dear students,
![Megan Quinn fired clay heads for her sculpture students](/files/styles/inline_image_left_right/public/2020-05/megan_quinn.jpg?itok=GxsxJWXY)
It's not easy, but your arts and music faculty are putting some serious creative chops into distance learning.
Learn about "Broadway boot camp," kitchen table studio, and a seriously upbeat attitude.
Particle-ularly good at physics
Big shout-out to Georgia Votta ’21, who has been awarded a $5,000 Rossing Physics Scholarship for next year. She is one of only 11 students in the country to win the scholarship.
Today's updates:
• Parking permits are on sale. Students who are returning to campus for a scheduled move-out can buy their parking permits for 2020-2021 while they are on campus. The Facilities Office will be open from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. today and Thursday, May 14.
If you did not buy a parking permit for next year before leaving campus for the summer, you will get a packet in the mail over the summer.
• The Reading/Writing Center is still open to help. Here are hours and services.
• Applications for Holden Village, the Mojave Desert, Mexico and Paris J-term study away programs has been extended on a first-come, first-serve basis. Also, there is still time to apply for spring semester and summer 2021 programs.
• Dance Marathon is taking applications for leadership positions for next year. Applications are due by 5 p.m. today!
• Friday is the deadline for you to change a course to pass/no-credit or withdraw from a course. If you have not talked to your advisor about these options, now is the time. Check out this FAQ. If questions, contact the Office of Advising.
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Today's blog: Senior Christian Elliott on the limits of videoconferencing
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!["Landrise" by Rowen Schussheim-Anderson](/files/2020-05/landrise.jpg)
If you ever get a chance to tour the art collection at Deere headquarters in neighboring Moline, take it! You will see artists from around the globe. Augustana Professor Rowen Schussheim-Anderson’s "Landrise" is one of the newest works in the collection.