News Center
Ethics winners
Dr. Dan Lee of the Augustana Center for the Study of Ethics has announced the winners of the 10th annual Ethics Essay Contest. The winners will be recognized at the Celebration of Learning May 6.
'A Green River' triumphs at college festival
Augustana's production of "A Green River" got a standing ovation at the Kennedy Center's regional college theater festival, but students will have to wait until March to see if they will be invited to the national festival.
Symposium Day–Social Justice
Augustana College's 2015 winter-term Symposium Day on the theme of Social Justice will be on Tuesday, January 20. Faculty, guest speakers and students will discuss race, sexual violence, social awareness and reconciliation.
Jessica Lamb-Shapiro
River Readings will continue its seventh season with author Jessica Lamb-Shapiro on Tuesday, January 27 at 7 p.m. in the Wilson Center. Lamb-Shapiro will read from her first book, "Promise Land: My Journey Through America's Self-Help Culture," a tour of the billion-dollar self-help industry that explores American devotion to self-improvement.
Augie Minute with Chuck Hyser
Professor of education Chuck Hyser discusses Augustana's partnership with Rock Island's Longfellow Elementary School. Augustana education students have helped design parts of the Longfellow curriculum, but the college's partnership extends beyond the education department.
Students discover history of local writers
Students discover some of the most important writers in America lived and wrote in the Quad Cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. To bring attention to this neglected body of literature, they researched and wrote essays about the writers and published an anthology at Augustana's East Hall Press.
2016 graduates talk about their plans
Andrew Skalak of the Augustana Video Bureau captured this snapshot of Commencement and asked graduates about the future.
List of 2015 Augustana graduates
Five hundred and sixty-two students participated in Augustana's 155 Commencement Convocation. Names listed here represent candidates for graduation; inclusion does not indicate completion of the degree requirements.
Commencement 2015
Money is not the measure of success at a job or life, Augustana College's new graduates were told Sunday at the iWireless Center during the school's 155th commencement ceremony.
Jim McGrath - Indy Star
Jim McGrath, 65, will retire in June after 34 years at Butler University. After spending 10 years as Augustana's first sports information director, McGrath became Butler's first full-time sports information director. He has been the one constant at Hinkle Fieldhouse as the men's basketball program went from afterthought on the Indianapolis sports scene to a national darling.
As You Like It review
Director Jennifer Popple’s decision to set her Augustana College production of As You Like It in the 1960s is one of the most appropriate changes in time-setting for theatrical material... Such shifts sometimes seem gimmicky, or are better in concept than execution, but here it works, and works well.
As You Like It
Augustana's Department of Theatre Arts will put a groovy spin on Shakespeare’s "As You Like It" during the first two weekends of May. “The pastoral comedy of 'As You Like It' and the revolutionary decade of the 1960s bring forth such similar themes," said sophomore Trevor Jablonski, who is dramaturge for the production.
Video: LaHood addresses need for bipartisanship
Ray LaHood, former U.S. congressman and secretary of transportation, presented the annual Ellwood F. Curtis Lecture in Public Affairs, "Seeking Bipartisanship: My Life in Politics," on Aug. 30.
Augustana opens its new $4.2M place to play
The $4.2-million Kim and Donna Brunner Theatre Center opened Thursday night to the public, with its first production, "Rabbit Hole," in its Black Box Theatre. After nearly a year of Hodge Construction transforming the upper two floors of the old College Center, Augustana moved its theatre arts department into the renovated building, which features three performance spaces.
'Blacksmith' highlights Lundahl collection presentation Sept. 6
Quad-City Times columnist Alma Gaul spotlights "The Blacksmith," a painting by Swedish immigrant Frank Lundahl that is part of the collection at the Augustana Teaching Museum of Art. Museum director Claire Kovacs will deliver a talk on Lundahl and "The Blacksmith" on Sept. 6.
