Bingo
The Office of Student Life invites all students to a game of bingo. Masks and social distancing are required and will be enforced.
Peace Corps informational meeting
The office of advising from CORE is excited to invite students to attend an informational meeting with a speaker from the Peace Corps to give students the opportunity to learn more about serving in Peace Corps. This informational will cover information including, but not limited to, unique service opportunities, the application process, COVID-19 logistics, benefits, and more!
This informational will take place from 4:00-5:00 p.m. via Google Meet (meet.google.com/qiu-wpcc-had). Students are welcome and encouraged to bring any and all questions to the informational.
An RSVP through Handshake is requested, but not required to attend this event.
Personal finance workshop
Bryce Palar, assistant professor of business, will discuss personal finance topics for people in their early 20s such as budgeting, saving, investing, and borrowing/debt.
Spread the Word panel
Spread the Word to End the Word is a campaign to raise awareness of the hurtful effects of the r-word and encourage people to pledge to stop using it due to its hurtful and derogatory nature.
Spread the Word Week is March 1-5. The National Awareness Day is today, and Augustana's Best Buddies will host virtual panel. Everyone on campus is invited to come learn and ask questions about what it means to be inclusive and how we can all "spread the word to end the word."
The panel with consist of faculty, the Best Buddies area director and some of our buddies.
Washington '21 works to create ‘space’
Jacob Washington '21, Black Student Union president, has mastered how to make physical togetherness possible when physical distance is critical.
Jacobs wins $10,000 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
Augustana senior Alek Jacobs, a quarterback on the Vikings football team, has won a $10,000 postgraduate scholarship from National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Q&A with Study Away
The Office of International Programs will offer a virtual session for student to learn about their options for study away in 2021-2022.
Sessions will include information on upcoming J-term options, semester away programs, international internships and summer language programs that will take place during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Find out how to apply in anticipation of the early application deadline of Feb 26. There also will be information about the Passport Grant, Augie Choice and other scholarships.
If you cannot attend, schedule an individual virtual appointment through Handshake or contact the office at internationalprograms@augustana.edu.
See a full listing of programs and apply online at studyabroad.augustana.edu.
'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' March 4-7
Augustana College will present a recorded live performance of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" March 4-7.
Pre-optometry info session
Learn more about the pre-optometry advising track.
Dr. Dara Wegman-Geedey will discuss the 3:4 articulation with the Illinois College of Optometry, and the traditional four-year bachelor's degree followed by four years of optometry school
at any of the 23 optometry schools in the U.S. and its territories.