任务
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.
愿景
Augustana University aspires to become one of America’s premier church-related universities.
核心价值观
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. 这些短语是, 反过来, followed by how the value is expressed in the daily life of the university and its people.
基督教 "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 基督教 faith and ethics to learning and service
文科 "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
卓越 "By committing to high standards and integrity"
- Practicing faithfulness in teaching, learning, supporting, administering
- Nurturing potential
- Challenging the intellect
- 行为道德
- Recognizing achievement
社区 "By caring for one another and our environments"
- Responding to needs
- Respecting human differences
- Empowering one another
- Tending to the ecology of place
服务 "By affirming that wholeness includes reaching out to others"
- Accepting the call to servanthood
- Promoting justice
- Integrating career and service
- Serving church and society
扎根和开放
Augustana is part of the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU), which share a common calling, "扎根和开放," to equip graduates who are:
Called and empowered
To serve the neighbor
So that all may flourish.
The Augustana Seal
The Augustana seal was designed ca. 1950 by Ogden Dalrymple, professor emeritus of art from 1946-91. It is composed of a circle representing eternity, a triangle representing the Trinity and a book which is the Bible. The “cross” running through the book is the Chi Rho (the monogram and symbol formed from the first two letters “X” and “P” of the Greek word for Christ). The letters “VDMA” are symbolic of Augustana's motto, “Verbum Dei Manet In Aeternum” or “The word of God endures forever.” The letters on either side of the Bible are the Alpha and Omega of the Greek alphabet symbolizing the beginning and the end. The lamp is the Lamp of Knowledge. The three dates represent the founding dates of Augustana: 1860, 在芝加哥, Illinois; 1889, the founding of the Lutheran Normal School in Sioux Falls; 1918, the merger of the two schools to become Augustana College.