Augustana University

Founded in 1860, Augustana University provides students with a wide range of academic courses and majors. There are more than 100 different majors, minors and pre-professional programs of study. Additionally, graduate students can select from nearly a dozen master and doctoral programs.

Mission
Inspired by Lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, Augustana University provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Vision
Augustana University aspires to become one of America’s premier church-related universities.

Core Values
Central to the Augustana University experience are five core values. The community lives them and honors them, and they infuse the academic curriculum as well as student life. These five values are identified below, followed by a phrase that sums up the essence of the word as it informs the university's mission. These phrases are, in turn, followed by how the value is expressed in the daily life of the university and its people.

Christian "As a university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America"

Centering on worship
Welcoming all faiths
Nurturing the search for a mature religious faith
Relating Christian faith and ethics to learning and service
Liberal Arts "By providing an education of enduring worth"

Affirming teaching and learning as central and lifelong
Fostering a broad understanding of humans and their interactions
Enriching lives by exposure to enduring forms of aesthetic and creative expressions
Developing broad knowledge and skills crucial in a changing world
Creating awareness of one's own religious and ethical beliefs and those of others
Cultivating health and wellness
Excellence "By committing to high standards and integrity"

Practicing faithfulness in teaching, learning, supporting, administering
Nurturing potential
Challenging the intellect
Acting ethically
Recognizing achievement
Community "By caring for one another and our environments"

Responding to needs
Respecting human differences
Empowering one another
Tending to the ecology of place
Service "By affirming that wholeness includes reaching out to others"

Accepting the call to servanthood
Promoting justice
Integrating career and service
Serving church and society