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Augustana Prison Pen Pal Program info meeting
The campus community is invited to learn about the new Augustana Prison Pen Pal Program at an info meeting.
The program will work in partnership with Companions Journeying Together, a not-for-profit organization that serves people who are incarcerated in the state of Illinois and their families, with the goals of facilitating communication and building healthy relationships.
Students and inmates (from across Illinois) write each other physical letters, but use pseudonyms to protect their privacy.
Dia de la Raza
Augustana College will host Dia de la Raza, a campus and community event celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month, on Sept. 15.
The event will be held from 5-8 p.m. at the Viking Plaza on the Quad. Community members may park at the Centennial Hall lot or nearby street parking.
The first 100 guests will enjoy free tacos, chips and salsa, horchata and Mexican paletas from Coya's Cafe.
Grupo Realidad will entertain the crowd with live music, and there will be a special performance by the Quad Cities Ballet Folklorico.
There will be activity tables to play lotería, pirinola toma and dominoes, and to craft lanterns symbolizing the original freedom torch.
National Hispanic Heritage Month is from Sept. 15-Oct.15 and traditionally honors the cultures and contributions of both Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Dia de la Raza is sponsored by Augustana College Office of Student Inclusion and Diversity in partnership with the Office of Alumni Relations, Office of Student Life and Leadership, Multicultural Programming Board, and the Office of International Student and Scholar Services.
Dia de la Raza campus and community event Sept. 15
Augustana College will host Dia de la Raza , a campus and community event celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month, on Sept. 15.
September 11, 2001: The Day That Changed the World
The Thomas Tredway Library will offer a poster exhibition, "September 11, 2001: The Day That Changed the World," developed by the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, through Sept. 13.
The exhibit has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy Demands Wisdom.
Note: This exhibit contains images of violence.
Symposium Day: Environments
Each fall semester, Augustana devotes a day to an alternative, multidisciplinary approach to learning. These Symposium Days include invited speakers, faculty, students and alumni.
This year's fall Symposium Day theme is Environments.
See today's schedule of sessions
About the theme
Everyone inhabits many environments simultaneously: natural, social, linguistic, cultural, political and economic. Each environment contains its own set of difficulties. What challenges do we face in our various environments, and what is the best approach for meeting these challenges? How do we act to change our environments? How might we experience the purportedly same environment differently? How does our environment shape who we are, who we want to be, and who we will become? What does resilience look like for each context? How can we best ensure justice and equity as we pursue solutions to persistent problems that arise in our environments?
