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The School of Music invites the public to join the Augustana University community for its annual Christmas Vespers 2021 Concert “Awake! Awake, and Greet the New Morn,” a celebration of the birth of Christ featuring Augustana’s choirs, orchestra and brass choir.
There have been many alumni who have met one another and fallen in love at Augustana, who got married and led successful careers. However, few have accomplished so much apart yet complement one another like James (Jim) ‘72 and Carol (Saltee) ‘71 Oakland.
Augustana University's nursing program within its School of Health Professions is officially endorsed as a Holistic Nursing Program by the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation (AHNCC) — the only college in South Dakota and one of only 17 schools in the nation to earn this accreditation.
When Augustana University launched the School of Music in the spring of 2020, its key initiatives included establishing a new major with the Avid Learning Partner (ALP) program at its core. The new degree program — multimedia entrepreneurship with an emphasis in music — is now combining courses in Pro Tools for music creation, Media Composer for video editing and Sibelius for music composition and arranging, accompanied with a supporting curriculum in music and business.
Across the country and around the world, Augustana alumni are serving in ministry roles and living out the university's core values of Christian faith and service — from a seminarian in Rome and volunteer in Serbia to a hospital chaplain in Colorado and theatre camp director in Iowa. Alumni have served with organizations such as Athletes in Action, Border Servant Corps, Pan De Vida and Mission to the World.
Augustana students Onajite Taire ‘22 and Gedion Alemayehu ‘22 are part of a team that was named a global finalist for the 2021 Call for Code University Challenge. Taire and Alemayehu, along with two students from Ethiopia and India attending New York University and PSG College of Arts & Science, made up one of AU’s teams. Yeabsira Lemma ‘21, Gideon Kassa ‘21 and Fraol Dechasa ‘22 made up the other. Competing in the global competition was a chance for students to make a tangible contribution to solving the world’s issues.
Fred Lawyer ‘76 completed an 18-hour drive to Augustana’s campus to make a donation. He drove a several hundred-pound stone cross country to donate it to Augustana's art department for printmaking — a limited, irreplaceable resource.
Professor of English Dr. Daniel Gerling discovered a new way to get his students engaged in the English language — by collaboratively creating a class dictionary, complete with slang words and phrases and emojis to demonstrate how language changes over time.
On Dec. 3-4, the Augustana University Board of Trustees installed four new board members. Joining the Board of Trustees for 3-year terms, beginning in January 2022, are Manaal Ali ‘20, Cheryl Collins, Andrea DeGroot-Nesdahl and Dr. Damien Fair ‘98.