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After more than a year of masks, mandatory quarantines and missed events, Augustana welcomed the class of 2025 to campus with the largest number of first-year students since 2017. According to Adam Heinitz, the assistant vice president for enrollment management, 467 first-year students arrived at Augustana this fall. Comparatively, the

This summer, Augustana announced plans to open a satellite campus in Costa Rica, something director of International Programs and Enrollment Ben Iverson said they have been “dreaming about for a while” in the International Programs Office (IPO). At the new campus, proposed to open in 2030, students will have the

Augustana will not be amending their drug policy anytime soon. Last spring, Augustana was not sure what marijuana policies would look like on campus this fall. But this summer, administration decided medical and recreational usage of marijuana is prohibited on campus. According to Rick Tupper,  the associate vice president for

Augustana officially added the School of Health Professions and the School of Business this year, both with newly appointed deans from within the university to strategically build them. Matt Volansky, who’s already director of the doctorate of physical therapy program, is dean of the School of Health Professions, while

After a months-long construction project that cost more than $800,000, students on the north side of campus were greeted with an overhauled road and parking lot when moving in at the beginning of the semester. The road construction, which included tearing up University Place, the circle outside the towers

In its first meeting of the school year, the Augustana Student Association (ASA) passed an act allowing student organizations who did not complete the required 10 service hours during the 2020-2021 school year to keep their active status. The COVID Action Resolution Exempting Service, known as the CARES act, was