Augustana University
Augustana University is a private aesthetic sciences school participateed with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Situated in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the school is the engage individual college in the state. The organization gets its name from the Confessio Augustana, or Augsburg Confession, a foundational archive of Lutheranism. Understudies, graduated class, companions, workers, and the individuals who know the school calmly allude to it as "Augie."
The college recognizes 1860 as the year of its establishing, the same as its Rock Island, Illinois sister-school, Augustana College. It praised its sesquicentennial amid the 2010–2011 scholarly year.
Augustana offers Bachelor of Arts degrees in more than 50 noteworthy fields of study, and also a few pre-proficient projects, most prominently nursing. Understudies additionally take an interest in an assortment of extracurricular exercises, including musical gatherings and NCAA athletic projects. The school reliably gets high rankings among other Midwestern schools from productions, for example, The Princeton Review and U.S. News and World Report.
History
The foundation follows its inception to 1835 when Scandinavian workers built up the Hillsboro Academy in Hillsboro, Illinois. In 1846, the Academy turned into the Literary and Theological Institute of the Lutheran Church of the Far West before moving to Springfield, Illinois under the name Illinois State University. In 1860, after chapel pioneers framed the Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod, Professor Lars Paul Esbjörn and a gathering of adherents moved to Chicago to make their own foundation. There they built up the Augustana College and Seminary, denoting the date that the school recognizes as the year of its establishing.
As the United States extended westbound amid and after the American national battel , pioneers moved the school to Paxton, Illinois in 1863. There, a split happened: the Norwegian authority, fancying to make their own school, migrated to Marshall, Wisconsin in 1869,while the Swedes later moved to Rock Island, Illinois, building up Augustana College (Illinois). The school at Marshall moved to Beloit, Iowa in 1881, and after that to Canton, South Dakota in 1888.
The Lutheran Normal School opened in 1889 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, housed in what is currently known as Old Main, with the reason for instructing instructors. City and business pioneers campaigned for Augustana to move to Sioux Falls, and church pioneers in 1918 blended the Lutheran Normal School and Augustana College in Canton under the name Augustana College and Normal School.In 1926, "and Normal School" was dropped from the name and the site in Canton in the long run got to be Augustana Academy. In spite of the likenesses in name, the Academy was no more subsidiary with the College and at last shut in 1971.The 2010–2011 scholarly year points Augustana University's sesquicentennial.
The college recognizes 1860 as the year of its establishing, the same as its Rock Island, Illinois sister-school, Augustana College. It praised its sesquicentennial amid the 2010–2011 scholarly year.
Augustana offers Bachelor of Arts degrees in more than 50 noteworthy fields of study, and also a few pre-proficient projects, most prominently nursing. Understudies additionally take an interest in an assortment of extracurricular exercises, including musical gatherings and NCAA athletic projects. The school reliably gets high rankings among other Midwestern schools from productions, for example, The Princeton Review and U.S. News and World Report.
History
The foundation follows its inception to 1835 when Scandinavian workers built up the Hillsboro Academy in Hillsboro, Illinois. In 1846, the Academy turned into the Literary and Theological Institute of the Lutheran Church of the Far West before moving to Springfield, Illinois under the name Illinois State University. In 1860, after chapel pioneers framed the Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod, Professor Lars Paul Esbjörn and a gathering of adherents moved to Chicago to make their own foundation. There they built up the Augustana College and Seminary, denoting the date that the school recognizes as the year of its establishing.
As the United States extended westbound amid and after the American national battel , pioneers moved the school to Paxton, Illinois in 1863. There, a split happened: the Norwegian authority, fancying to make their own school, migrated to Marshall, Wisconsin in 1869,while the Swedes later moved to Rock Island, Illinois, building up Augustana College (Illinois). The school at Marshall moved to Beloit, Iowa in 1881, and after that to Canton, South Dakota in 1888.
The Lutheran Normal School opened in 1889 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, housed in what is currently known as Old Main, with the reason for instructing instructors. City and business pioneers campaigned for Augustana to move to Sioux Falls, and church pioneers in 1918 blended the Lutheran Normal School and Augustana College in Canton under the name Augustana College and Normal School.In 1926, "and Normal School" was dropped from the name and the site in Canton in the long run got to be Augustana Academy. In spite of the likenesses in name, the Academy was no more subsidiary with the College and at last shut in 1971.The 2010–2011 scholarly year points Augustana University's sesquicentennial.
Augustana draws its name from the beginning of the Lutheran Church in the Augsburg Confession, written in 1530 amid the Protestant Reformation. "Augustana" originates from the archive's Latin name, Confessio Augustana. On August 21, 2015, the school declared that it would change its name from Augustana College and rather be referred to as Augustana University as of September 1, 2015.
Scholastics
Augustana University offers 53 majors, 34 minors, and 12 pre-proficient programs.[9] The main five most prominent majors are nursing, science, business organization, rudimentary training and brain science.
Augustana's statement of purpose gives that the college tries to "elevate affectability to and valuation for qualities vital for understudies to end up viable residents in nearby, national and worldwide groups." Additionally, Augustana highlights five center qualities—Christian, Liberal Arts, Excellence, Community and Service—as advising the school's scholarly and understudy life programs.
The school's educational programs depends on a logbook partitioned into two 15 week semesters, isolated by a between time of four weeks amid January, and a discretionary summer term of eight weeks. Classes might be taken amid the month of January. The school offers a 12:1 understudy to-workforce ratio,and eminent educators incorporate L. Adrien Hannus and Robert E. Wright.
Graduation requires culmination of 124 aggregate credit hours, 59 of which are general training courses, with a base combined evaluation point normal of 2.0. "The Augustana Plan," the name of the 59 credit main subjects, is "intended to create articulate communicators, able authors, innovative scholars, talented issue solvers, and morally minded, capable nationals of the world." Extensive entry level position, concentrate abroad, undergrad examination and Civitas, the school's distinctions program, supplement the educational programs. Somewhere around 2007 and 2008, 285 understudies took an interest in a worldwide instructive ordeal, and 44% of understudies concentrate abroad before graduation.
US News and World Report values Augustana's budgetary blessing at $53.3 million.Donations have permitted the school to grow its scholastic offices, for example, the late $7 million remodel of the Mikkelsen Library and the arranged $45 million reproduction of the Gilbert Science Complex.
Scholastics
Augustana University offers 53 majors, 34 minors, and 12 pre-proficient programs.[9] The main five most prominent majors are nursing, science, business organization, rudimentary training and brain science.
Augustana's statement of purpose gives that the college tries to "elevate affectability to and valuation for qualities vital for understudies to end up viable residents in nearby, national and worldwide groups." Additionally, Augustana highlights five center qualities—Christian, Liberal Arts, Excellence, Community and Service—as advising the school's scholarly and understudy life programs.
The school's educational programs depends on a logbook partitioned into two 15 week semesters, isolated by a between time of four weeks amid January, and a discretionary summer term of eight weeks. Classes might be taken amid the month of January. The school offers a 12:1 understudy to-workforce ratio,and eminent educators incorporate L. Adrien Hannus and Robert E. Wright.
Graduation requires culmination of 124 aggregate credit hours, 59 of which are general training courses, with a base combined evaluation point normal of 2.0. "The Augustana Plan," the name of the 59 credit main subjects, is "intended to create articulate communicators, able authors, innovative scholars, talented issue solvers, and morally minded, capable nationals of the world." Extensive entry level position, concentrate abroad, undergrad examination and Civitas, the school's distinctions program, supplement the educational programs. Somewhere around 2007 and 2008, 285 understudies took an interest in a worldwide instructive ordeal, and 44% of understudies concentrate abroad before graduation.
US News and World Report values Augustana's budgetary blessing at $53.3 million.Donations have permitted the school to grow its scholastic offices, for example, the late $7 million remodel of the Mikkelsen Library and the arranged $45 million reproduction of the Gilbert Science Complex.
Affirmations and rankings
Augustana's understudy body comprises of 1,800 students, 93% of whom are full-time understudies and 7% low maintenance. For the class of 2011, out of a candidate pool of 1,353, Augustana acknowledged 83%; of the 1,105 that selected, 63% were female. Starting 2015, the acknowledgment rate dropped to 61%, with 947 of 1,545 candidates acknowledged. US News and World Report characterizes Augustana as a "more particular" school,with 62% of the understudies selected having moved on from secondary school in the top quartile of their class,the normal GPA being 3.7. ACT test score entries had a 23–28 center half range, with a normal ACT composite score of 26. Eight percent of approaching understudies in 2014 submitted SAT scores, with the center half range for the numerical and basic perusing parts being 500–650 and 510–580, respectively.The school's degree of consistency of green beans returning as sophomores was 80% somewhere around 2013 and 2014.
Those enlisted are fundamentally from South Dakota (42%) and Minnesota (34%), trailed by Iowa (12%) and Nebraska (4%). In the fall of the 2010–2011 scholastic year, Augustana reported its biggest steadily approaching class of worldwide understudies. Fifty-four new understudies speaking to 20 nations and 5 mainlands joined 25 proceeding with universal understudies for an aggregate of 79 worldwide understudies from 23 nations, making up around 4.5% of the understudy body. Albeit just 46% of understudies claim an inclination for the school's Lutheran religious association, the school is by and by made fundamentally out of understudies taking after another Christian category, Catholicism being the second biggest at 21%; 22% of understudies, in the mean time, are classified under "other."
In the 2015 U.S. News and World Report positioning of Midwestern schools, Augustana put third, and has every now and again been named a top level baccalaureate school. The distribution also named it a "Best Buy" school, the honor in view of scholarly quality in connection to participation costs. The Princeton Review named Augustana as one of 159 "Best in the Midwest" schools in 2015. Forbes' rundown of "America's Top Colleges" set Augustana at #97 among schools in the Midwest and #423 generally speaking. Peterson's 440 Colleges for Top Students highlighted Augustana, and Harvard Schmarvard: Getting Beyond the Ivy League to the College That is Best for You recorded the school as one of its "main 100 remarkable (however overlooked) colleges."The Templeton Guide chose Augustana as one of 100 select universities and colleges across the nation as a component of its "Templeton Honor Roll."
Augustana's understudy body comprises of 1,800 students, 93% of whom are full-time understudies and 7% low maintenance. For the class of 2011, out of a candidate pool of 1,353, Augustana acknowledged 83%; of the 1,105 that selected, 63% were female. Starting 2015, the acknowledgment rate dropped to 61%, with 947 of 1,545 candidates acknowledged. US News and World Report characterizes Augustana as a "more particular" school,with 62% of the understudies selected having moved on from secondary school in the top quartile of their class,the normal GPA being 3.7. ACT test score entries had a 23–28 center half range, with a normal ACT composite score of 26. Eight percent of approaching understudies in 2014 submitted SAT scores, with the center half range for the numerical and basic perusing parts being 500–650 and 510–580, respectively.The school's degree of consistency of green beans returning as sophomores was 80% somewhere around 2013 and 2014.
Those enlisted are fundamentally from South Dakota (42%) and Minnesota (34%), trailed by Iowa (12%) and Nebraska (4%). In the fall of the 2010–2011 scholastic year, Augustana reported its biggest steadily approaching class of worldwide understudies. Fifty-four new understudies speaking to 20 nations and 5 mainlands joined 25 proceeding with universal understudies for an aggregate of 79 worldwide understudies from 23 nations, making up around 4.5% of the understudy body. Albeit just 46% of understudies claim an inclination for the school's Lutheran religious association, the school is by and by made fundamentally out of understudies taking after another Christian category, Catholicism being the second biggest at 21%; 22% of understudies, in the mean time, are classified under "other."
In the 2015 U.S. News and World Report positioning of Midwestern schools, Augustana put third, and has every now and again been named a top level baccalaureate school. The distribution also named it a "Best Buy" school, the honor in view of scholarly quality in connection to participation costs. The Princeton Review named Augustana as one of 159 "Best in the Midwest" schools in 2015. Forbes' rundown of "America's Top Colleges" set Augustana at #97 among schools in the Midwest and #423 generally speaking. Peterson's 440 Colleges for Top Students highlighted Augustana, and Harvard Schmarvard: Getting Beyond the Ivy League to the College That is Best for You recorded the school as one of its "main 100 remarkable (however overlooked) colleges."The Templeton Guide chose Augustana as one of 100 select universities and colleges across the nation as a component of its "Templeton Honor Roll."
Expressions
Augustana made the Center for Western Studies in 1970,which serves as a library, vault for extraordinary accumulations of craftsmanship and ancient rarities, and scholastic distributer. The Center holds a yearly Dakota Conference on the Northern Plains for history, writing, workmanship, and paleontology. It is "the biggest yearly humanities meeting particularly about the Northern Plains." notwithstanding appears and exhibitions of Western, Scandinavian, and Native American workmanship, the Center likewise has the Boe Forum on Public Affairs, which has included speakers, for example, Pervez Musharraf, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Mikhail Gorbachev.
The Augustana Choir and Concert Band visit broadly and universally, including the People's Republic of China, Italy,and Tanzania.The band, while on visit in Egypt amid the Revolution of 2011, got themselves quickly stranded in Cairo because of hostile to government dissents.
The Augustana College Theater Company introduces a few primary stage demonstrates every year, one of which is a musical, and in addition a few understudy created appears by the Augustana College Theatrical Society. The division besides serves as home to the Claire Donaldson New Play Festival (beforehand called the 8-in-48 Claire Donaldson Short Play Festival), which happens each other year.
In 2006, the new Center for Visual Arts supplanted the old craftsmanship division structures, beforehand utilized as military quarters amid World War II. It holds craftsman and teacher studios, studio classrooms for configuration, drawing, printmaking, painting, figure, pottery, and a workmanship training lab. Moreover, the building houses the Eide-Dalrymple Gallery, which has a few workmanship displays consistently.
Civitas
Augustana's distinctions program, Civitas, is coordinated by English teacher Jeffrey Miller.Planning for Civitas started in 2005 in light of staff cravings to see a distinctions program like those offered at different schools. Civitas, a Latin word signifying "citizenship," highlights the work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran minister and scholar who went about as an establishing individual from the Confessing Church and a member in the German Resistance development against Nazism. "The Structure of Responsible Life," an exposition composed by Bonhoeffer, serves as the focal center of the system.
Underscoring Stellvertretung (generally deciphered as "vicarious agent activity"), Bonhoeffer took an interest in the Abwehr plot to kill Hitler, and hence composed the piece as an avocation for his activities. Understudies analyze his work in classes particularly assigned for Civitas and in uncommon respects segments of existing courses. 40 understudies are chosen from each graduating class, of whom must keep up at least a 3.0 GPA, with passageway need going to approaching understudies who have an ACT score of no less than 27 and a 3.5 aggregate secondary school GPA.
Regular Sciences
The National Institute of Health named Augustana University a beneficiary of almost $2 million paid more than five years in 2015, giving subsidizing to 17 understudies to take a shot at summer-long rsearch projects.An normal of 90% of graduating seniors looking for induction into medicinal school have been acknowledged throughout the most recent three years, twofold the national acknowledgment rate, and the school guarantees a steady 100% situation record of nursing graduates.
Development started on the new Froiland Science Complex in August 2014, including increases to and redesigns of the current Gilbert Science Center, and will be finished in December 2015. The west wing of the new building will be named the Gilbert Wing.
Games
The Augustana Vikings right now take an interest in NCAA Division II sports in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. The Vikings added the NSIC from the North Central Conference, which collapsed in 2008. Amid both the 2004–2005 and 2009–2010 school years, Augustana wrestlers completed second in the NCAA Division II title. The Elmen Center, opened in 1989,serves as the home court for the men's and ladies' b-ball groups, the volleyball group, and wrestling group.
Augustana made the Center for Western Studies in 1970,which serves as a library, vault for extraordinary accumulations of craftsmanship and ancient rarities, and scholastic distributer. The Center holds a yearly Dakota Conference on the Northern Plains for history, writing, workmanship, and paleontology. It is "the biggest yearly humanities meeting particularly about the Northern Plains." notwithstanding appears and exhibitions of Western, Scandinavian, and Native American workmanship, the Center likewise has the Boe Forum on Public Affairs, which has included speakers, for example, Pervez Musharraf, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Mikhail Gorbachev.
The Augustana Choir and Concert Band visit broadly and universally, including the People's Republic of China, Italy,and Tanzania.The band, while on visit in Egypt amid the Revolution of 2011, got themselves quickly stranded in Cairo because of hostile to government dissents.
The Augustana College Theater Company introduces a few primary stage demonstrates every year, one of which is a musical, and in addition a few understudy created appears by the Augustana College Theatrical Society. The division besides serves as home to the Claire Donaldson New Play Festival (beforehand called the 8-in-48 Claire Donaldson Short Play Festival), which happens each other year.
In 2006, the new Center for Visual Arts supplanted the old craftsmanship division structures, beforehand utilized as military quarters amid World War II. It holds craftsman and teacher studios, studio classrooms for configuration, drawing, printmaking, painting, figure, pottery, and a workmanship training lab. Moreover, the building houses the Eide-Dalrymple Gallery, which has a few workmanship displays consistently.
Civitas
Augustana's distinctions program, Civitas, is coordinated by English teacher Jeffrey Miller.Planning for Civitas started in 2005 in light of staff cravings to see a distinctions program like those offered at different schools. Civitas, a Latin word signifying "citizenship," highlights the work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran minister and scholar who went about as an establishing individual from the Confessing Church and a member in the German Resistance development against Nazism. "The Structure of Responsible Life," an exposition composed by Bonhoeffer, serves as the focal center of the system.
Underscoring Stellvertretung (generally deciphered as "vicarious agent activity"), Bonhoeffer took an interest in the Abwehr plot to kill Hitler, and hence composed the piece as an avocation for his activities. Understudies analyze his work in classes particularly assigned for Civitas and in uncommon respects segments of existing courses. 40 understudies are chosen from each graduating class, of whom must keep up at least a 3.0 GPA, with passageway need going to approaching understudies who have an ACT score of no less than 27 and a 3.5 aggregate secondary school GPA.
Regular Sciences
The National Institute of Health named Augustana University a beneficiary of almost $2 million paid more than five years in 2015, giving subsidizing to 17 understudies to take a shot at summer-long rsearch projects.An normal of 90% of graduating seniors looking for induction into medicinal school have been acknowledged throughout the most recent three years, twofold the national acknowledgment rate, and the school guarantees a steady 100% situation record of nursing graduates.
Development started on the new Froiland Science Complex in August 2014, including increases to and redesigns of the current Gilbert Science Center, and will be finished in December 2015. The west wing of the new building will be named the Gilbert Wing.
Games
The Augustana Vikings right now take an interest in NCAA Division II sports in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. The Vikings added the NSIC from the North Central Conference, which collapsed in 2008. Amid both the 2004–2005 and 2009–2010 school years, Augustana wrestlers completed second in the NCAA Division II title. The Elmen Center, opened in 1989,serves as the home court for the men's and ladies' b-ball groups, the volleyball group, and wrestling group.
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