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| Founded in 1860 by Swedish settlers, Augustana College is a selective, independent college of the liberal arts and sciences, related to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. |
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The 115-acre wooded campus in Rock Island, Illinois, is in the Quad Cities metropolitan area (population 350,000), on Interstate 80, approximately 165 miles west of Chicago, 230 miles north of St. Louis, and 176 miles east of Des Moines. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2,200 students from varied geographic, social, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. Student-to-faculty ratio is 13-to-one. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Student activities include music ensembles, theatre, debate, publications, broadcasting, student government, local Greek system, a wide variety of professional, religious, departmental, political, social, and service organizations. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Augustana Vikings compete in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) and NCAA Division III; eleven men's varsity teams; ten women's varsity teams; many intramural programs. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod was established in June of 1860, making the creation of its school one of its first official acts. The name which bound them came from the seminal statement of the Reformation, the Augsburg Confession, which in Latin is rendered Confessio Augustana. In 1962, the Synod helped create the Lutheran Church in America (LCA), prompting the Augustana Seminary to move from the campus as it became part of the new Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. A second merger in 1987 established the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). |
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| Today Augustana is one of 28 colleges and universities related to the ELCA. The Church-relatedness of each reflects its unique history. One facet of Augustana’s connection is the composition of its Board of Trustees, which the constitution mandates must include a Lutheran majority. In 2000, the Board amended the eligibility requirements of the presidency: instead of simply “Lutheran” (thereby including church bodies with markedly different theological understandings and worldviews), the president must be a member of either the ELCA or those denominations with which it has ecumenical agreements – the Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian (USA), Reformed and Moravian Churches, and the United Church of Christ. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Throughout Augustana’s history, the Church has been a source of highly skilled students from around the globe. Of obvious note is Daniel C. Tsui ‘61, who learned of the college through missionaries in his native China, and would go on from here to win the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect. The impact of such students remains profound today. Pamella Maeda (Class of 2005) is a native of Arusha, Tanzania, whose presence at the college is supported by the Northern Illinois Synod of the ELCA. And she, along with every other Augustana student, must complete a two-course religion requirement in order to graduate. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Each of Augustana’s presidents has had a role in shaping the Church relationship. As Thomas Tredway observed in a 1997 annual report: “Far from restricting us, our roots in the Church mean that we are free to ask every student to examine the fundamental questions about human existence which Christianity seeks to answer and which other great religious traditions also address. Though our civilization has long recognized such questions to be essential to a full education, the freedom to examine them is one which many secular institutions do not enjoy.” | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Augustana College 639-38th Street Rock Island, IL 61201-2296 309.794.7000 Admissions@Augustana.edu http://www.augustana.edu |
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| For additional information regarding Augustana College or the Quad Cities area, please refer to the following web sites: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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