Academic & Professional
Association for Computing Machinery at Augsburg University
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2013-2014 |
| Mission: | The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) at Augsburg University supports, celebrates, and advocates for the full engagement of students and faculties in all aspects of the computing field. |
| Contact: | Contact ACM |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisors: | Scott Kerlin Computer Science 612-330-1142 |
| Erik Steinmetz Computer Science 612-330-1062 |
Augsburg Business Organization
| Status: | Commissioned Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2001-2002 |
| Mission: | Augsburg Business Organization (ABO) promotes the study of business at Augsburg, as well as brings students together who have an interest in discussing and advocating for business. |
| Contact: | Contact ABO |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Marc Isaacson Business Administration 612-330-1194 |
Augsburg Creative Writing Club
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2019-2020 |
| Mission: | Augsburg Creative Writing Club (acw) promotes creative writing in many forms and strives to promote the art form through various events and meetings. |
| Contact: | Contact ACW |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisors: | Douglas Green English 612-330-1187 |
Augsburg Exercise Science Club
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2012-2013 |
| Mission: | The Augsburg Exercise Science Club (AESC) encourages a lifestyle of exercise for those in the Augsburg community. AESC aspires to embolden the Augsburg community with aspects of health, exercise science, and fitness for the purpose of facilitating participation and promoting a healthy active lifestyle with the intention to inspire activity. |
| Contact: | Contact AESC |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Anthony Clapp Health/Physical Education 612-330-1618 |
Augsburg Film Club
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2017-2018 |
| Mission: | Augsburg Film Club aims to create a collaborative, creative community for students who are interested in film culture and theory and for students who are interested in any aspects of film production. |
| Contact: | Contact Augsburg Film Club |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Jenny Hanson Communications, Film & New Media Studies 612-330-1714 |
Augsburg Music Industry Collective
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2019-2020 |
| Mission: | The Augsburg Music Industry Collective (AMIC) is dedicated to promoting collaboration among Augsburg students in pursuit of knowledge about the booming Music Business Industry. |
| Contact: | Contact AMIC |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | J. Anthony Allen Music |
Augsburg Philosophy Club
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2019-2020 |
| Mission: | The Augsburg Philosophy Club (APC) is to create a space for both majors and non-majors to discuss philosophical ideas. The community built around the club will focus on creating a discourse into the ideas of past philosophers, the sharing of thoughts and ideas of students, and how these relate to modern life. |
| Contact: | Contact APC |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Larry Crockett Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science |
Augsburg Psychological Association
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2015-2016 |
| Mission: | The Augsburg Psychological Association (APA) aims to create a community of psychology students at Augsburg that work to increase students’ awareness of graduate school opportunities in psychology fields and current work of practitioners in the fields of psychology. |
| Contact: | Contact APA |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisors: | Ben Denkinger Psychology 612-330-1172 |
| Bridget Robinson-Riegler Psychology 612-330-1498 |
Augsburg Student Accounting Organization
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2015-2016 |
| Mission: | ASAO provides students the opportunity to enhance their accounting experience into a professional career, certification, or interest in the field beyond the classroom. |
| Contact: | Contact ASAO |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisors: | Phyllis Kapetanakis Business 612-330-1134 |
| Jacob Enger Business |
Murphy Square
| Status: | Commissioned Student Organization |
| Chartered: | Before 2000 |
| Mission: | Murphy Square is the official literary and visual arts publication at Augsburg, taking submissions and publishing the works of students and faculty. |
| Contact: | Contact Murphy Square |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisors: | Doug Green English 612-330-1187 |
| Lindsay Starck English 612-330-1518 |
Pre-Dental Student Club
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2016-2017 |
| Mission: | The Pre-Dental Student Club gives students the opportunity to prepare themselves and make themselves a competitive applicant for dental school. |
| Contact: | Contact Pre-Dental Student Club |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Catherina Kipper Undergraduate Research and Graduate Opportunity Office 612-330-1441 |
Society of Physics Students
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2003-2004 |
| Mission: | SPS advances and diffuses knowledge of the science of physics and encourages student interest in physics throughout the academic and local communities. |
| Contact: | Contact SPS |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Benjamin Stottrup Physics 612-330-1035 |
STEM Peer Mentorship
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2015-2016 |
| Mission: | STEM Peer Mentorship aims to provide support to STEM students in navigating through their undergraduate studies and in preparation for success inside and outside of the classroom. |
| Contact: | Contact STEM Peer Mentorship |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisors: | Rebekah Dupont STEM Programs 612-330-1042 |
| Sabrina Dore STEM Programs 612-330-1452 |
Tri-Beta Biological Honors Society
| Status: | Commissioned Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2006-2007 |
| Mission: | Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society is an honor and professional society for students of the biological sciences. |
| Contact: | Contact Tri-Beta |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Lisa Raetz Biology 612-330-1568 |
Unbounded
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2004-2005 |
| Mission: | Unbounded brings mathematics majors, minors, and those interested in math together for social opportunities. |
| Contact: | Contact Unbounded |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Richard Flint Mathematics 612-330-1710 |
Advocacy & Awareness
Auggies Organizing for Choice
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2019-2020 |
| Mission: | Auggies Organizing for Choice exists to educate our community about reproductive health and rights, to translate increased awareness into pro-choice activism on campus, and to serve as a coalition partner to state, national, and international reproductive rights efforts. |
| Contact: | Contact Auggies Organizing for Choice |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Nancy Fischer Sociology 612-330-1095 |
| Diane Pike Sociology 612-330-1228 |
Augsburg Asian Student Association
| Status: | Commissioned Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2004-2005 |
| Mission: | Augsburg Asian Student Association (AASA) recognizes, engages, and supports the Augsburg Asian American community through culturally inclusive programs guided by the Augsburg mission. |
| Contact: | Contact AASA |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Hli Vang Multicultural Student Services 612-330-1530 |
Augsburg Indigenous Student Association
| Status: | Commissioned Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2007-2008 |
| Mission: | Augsburg Indigenous Student Association (AISA) provides events that support the awareness of American Indian cultures and serves as a support network for students interested in Indigenous peoples and culture. |
| Contact: | Contact AISA |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Jamie Randall Multicultural Student Services 612-330-1350 |
Augsburg Latin American Students
| Status: | Commissioned Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2008-2009 |
| Mission: | Augsburg Latin American Students (ALAS) promotes, communicates, educates, and engages the broader Augsburg and surrounding communities in learning about the Latinx culture and encourages awareness and respect for students of Latinx ancestry. |
| Contact: | Contact ALAS |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Ruby Murillo Multicultural Student Services 612-330-1309 |
Augsburg’s Sexual Misconduct Awareness-Raising Team
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Charterd: | 2015-2016 |
| Mission: | Augsburg’s SMART strives to raise overall awareness of rape culture, consent culture, harassment, and assaults, provide bystander trainings, help members and other students, staff, and faculty become good allies, innovate ways for Augsburg’s SMART to reach out to and engage with the populations who are unable to relate and/or empathize with these issues, and create an on-campus culture of education, empathy and empowerment. |
| Contact: | Contact SMART |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Sarah Griesse Student Affairs 612-330-1489 |
Ethiopian Student Association at Augsburg University
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Charterd: | 2019 |
| Mission: | Ethiopian Student Association at Augsburg University strives to being an awareness and understanding of Ethiopian culture among Augsburg University students and faculty while providing a social atmosphere where students and faculty, as well as residents in the Twin Cities can meet, interat and enjoy cultural events. |
| Contact: | Contact ESA |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Hana Dinku Multicultural Student Services 612-330-1489 |
Hmong Women Together
| Status: | Commissioned Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2013-2014 |
| Mission: | Hmong Women Together (HWT) aims create and sustain a supportive environment to connect, empower, and educate Hmong women to discover and explore different aspects of their cultural identities. |
| Contact: | Contact HWT |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Hli Vang Multicultural Student Services 612-330-1530 |
International Student Organization
| Status: | Commissioned Student Organization |
| Chartered: | Before 2000 |
| Mission: | The International Student Organization (ISO) strives to plan educational, cultural and social events that will bring together international and American students to promote tolerance and intercultural understanding between them, as well as contribute to the successful intercultural adjustment and academic achievement of international students. |
| Contact: | Contact ISO |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Bettine Hermanson International Student and Support Services 612-330-1659 |
Pan-Afrikan Student Union
| Status: | Commissioned Student Organization |
| Chartered: | Before 2000 |
| Mission: | The Pan-Afrikan Student Union (PASU) builds and maintains mutually beneficial relationships with students of Afrikan descent. |
| Contact: | Contact PASU |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Hana Dinku Multicultural Student Services 612-330-1022 |
Queer Indigenous and People of Color
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2016-2017 |
| Mission: | Queer Indigenous and People of Color aims to foster a supportive space to educate, embrace, and empower Queer Indigenous and People of Color to proudly accept their cultural identities. It also raises awareness about racism, classism, QIPOC issues, and more to the entire Augsburg community. |
| Contact: | Contact QIPOC |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Maxwell Poessnecker Multicultural Student Services / Equity & Inclusion Initiatives 612-330-1338 |
Queer Pride Alliance
| Status: | Commissioned Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 1988-1989 |
| Mission: | Queer Pride Alliance (QPA) provides support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) community at Augsburg along with those other members who are allies. It also raises awareness about LGBTQIA issues and concerns to the entire Augsburg campus community. |
| Contact: | Contact QPA |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Maxwell Poessnecker Multicultural Student Services / Equity & Inclusion Initiatives 612-330-1338 |
Campus Media
Echo
| Status: | Commissioned Student Organization |
| Chartered: | Before 2000 |
| Mission: | The Echo is the official student newspaper of Augsburg. |
| Contact: | Contact Echo |
| Websites: | Website augsburgecho.com |
| Advisors: | Jenny Hanson Communications, Film & New Media Studies 612-330-1714 |
| Sarah Groeneveld Kenney English 612-330-1367 |
KAUG
| Status: | Commissioned Student Organization |
| Chartered: | Before 2000 |
| Mission: | KAUG aims to be a voice for the Augsburg and surrounding communities by presenting a variety of media, and to provide an outlet for individuals to express themselves in many different ways. |
| Contact: | Contact KAUG |
| Websites: | Website engage.augsburg.edu/kaug |
| Advisor: | J. Anthony Allen Music |
Religious & Spiritual
Augsburg University Student Ministries
| Status: | Commissioned Student Organization |
| Chartered: | Before 2000 |
| Mission: | Augsburg University Student Ministries, rooted in the tradition of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, serves to assist in the facilitation of worship, aid in student vocational discernment, create community through fellowship and study, and foster dialogue between people of various religious, spiritual and philosophical traditions. |
| Contact: | Contact AUSM |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisors: | Pastor Justin Lind-Ayres Campus Ministry 612-330-1735 |
| Pastor David Wrightsman Campus Ministry 612-330-1733 |
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| Janice Dames Campus Ministry 612-330-1732 |
Minnesota Hillel-Augsburg
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2017-2018 |
| Mission: | Minnesota Hillel-Augsburg seeks to Enrich the lives of students so they may enrich the Jewish people and the greater community, by perpetuating the values of Hillel. |
| Contact: | Contact Minnesota Hillel-Augsburg |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Sonja Hagander 612-330-1735 Campus Ministry |
Muslim Student Association
| Status: | Commissioned Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2009-2010 |
| Mission: | The Muslim Student Association (MSA) strives to promote unity among Muslim students and to raise awareness within the Augsburg community about the culture, history, and language of the Muslim community surrounding campus. |
| Contact: | Contact MSA |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Fardosa Hassan Campus Ministry 612-330-1734 |
Special Interest
Augsburg Alpine Club
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2017-2018 |
| Mission: | The Augsburg Alpine Club seeks to inspire Augsburg students to embrace Minnesota winters and introduce newcomers to the adventurous sports of downhill skiing and snowboarding while building a community and staying active. |
| Contact: | Contact Augsburg Alpine Club |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Hans Wiersma 612-330-1205 Religion |
Augsburg Chess Club
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2017-2018 |
| Contact: | Contact Augsburg Chess Club |
| Website: | Website |
| Mission: | Augsburg Chess Club creates a space to play, to learn, and to teach the game of chess. |
| Advisor: | Mark Tranvik Religion 612-330-1571 |
Augsburg Disc Golf Club
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2019-2020 |
| Mission: | Augsburg Disc Golf Club to be a club for all people interested in playing and growing the sport of disc golf. |
| Contact: | Contact Augsburg Disc Golf Club |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Keith Bateman Athletics |
Augsburg Manga and Anime Club
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2015-2016 |
| Mission: | AMAC showcases anime/manga and its origin culture and form a sense of community around a less known art form. |
| Contact: | Contact AMAC |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Jenny Hanson Communications, Film & New Media Studies 612-330-1714 |
Augsburg Student Activities Council
| Status: | Commissioned Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 1987-1988 |
| Mission: | The Augsburg Student Activities Council (ASAC) seeks to build community among Day students at Augsburg through campus programming. |
| Contact: | Contact ASAC |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Alex Abraha Campus Life 612-330-1165 |
Augsburg Ultimate Frisbee Club
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2018-2019 |
| Mission: | It shall be the purpose of Augsburg Ultimate Frisbee Club (AUFC) to provide a welcoming and inclusive space for students to come learn teamwork, have a competitive and good atmosphere, make friends, and more importantly, have fun. |
| Contact: | Contact AUFC |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Jenny Hanson Communications, Film & New Media Studies 612-330-1714 |
Convocadence
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2018-2019 |
| Mission: | It shall be the purpose of Convocadence to connect students at Augsburg University through music both on and off campus. |
| Contact: | Contact Convocadence |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Samuel Grace Music |
Gamers United
| Status: | Chartered Student Organization |
| Chartered: | 2013-2014 |
| Mission: | Gamers United aims to be a place for all gamers to find and be a part of a group that welcomes them and allows them to be themselves without prejudice and also to enjoy social involvement of one or every form of gaming. |
| Contact: | Contact Gamers United |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisor: | Larry Crockett Computer Science 612-330-1060 |
Student Government
Augsburg Day Student Government
| Status: | Student Government |
| Mission: | Augsburg Day Student Government serves as the primary student voice and liaison between Day students and the administration, faculty, and staff of Augsburg. |
| Contact: | Contact Augsburg Day Student Government |
| Website: | Website |
| Advisors: | Alex Abraha Campus Life 612-330-1165 |
| Michael Grewe Campus Life 612-330-1499 |