Yearly Archives: 2025
When transition transforms
How AugSem builds community, refines academic skills, and connects new students with campus resourcesPart of Augsburg’s general education curriculum, AugSem is a seminar course required of all first-year students and any transfer student with fewer than 32 credits. “AugSem has existed… more >
Assistant Professor Anna Pirsch receives emerging researcher award
On November 4, Assistant Professor of Nursing Anna Pirsch received the 2025 Emerging Investigator Award from the Public Health Nursing Section of the American Public Health Association at their annual… more >
Fall concerts offer ‘heroic harmonies,’ ‘diversions,’ and more
Augsburg University’s music programs support a broad approach to musical knowledge as a universally-shared human endeavor, one that connects us in community across time, space, and sound. Augsburg… more >
Interfaith America Magazine: ’20 Augsburg students care for their Minneapolis community’
Interfaith America Magazine recently published an essay about the ways Augsburg’s Interfaith Scholars have connected with the needs of local communities. 20 Augsburg Students Care for Their Minneapolis… more >
Augsburg’s support for foster students serves as a model
The Imprint recently published an in-depth look at Augsburg Family Scholars, the program for former foster students that has grown from nine students in 2022 to 38 today. The… more >
‘I love that about our library’: Lindell Library changes get noticed
As the first academic library in Minnesota to move to a “self-serve first” model, Augsburg’s Lindell Library is using technology to advance a people-centered goal… more >
Nursing professor and alumna Katie Clark honored with national leadership award
Associate Professor Katie Clark ’10 MAN, ’14 DNP has been awarded the 2025 Barbara A. Holland Scholar-Administrator Award from the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. The award is… more >
Journal of College Admission highlights Augsburg’s approach
The Journal of College Admission’s fall 2025 cover story highlights Augsburg as one of a handful of institutions leading change nationally. A new initiative of the National Association for… more >
A friendship for the ages
How two Augsburg alumni found meaning through shared experiencesIn the summer of 2008, Juventino Meza ’11 began a long train ride from St. Paul to Seattle, eager to begin a weeklong program through Seattle University. An undocumented student… more >
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and hockey star Mats Zuccarello visit Augsburg
From filming the original “Mighty Ducks” movie to last season’s thrilling NCAA Division III women’s hockey quarterfinal victory, Ed Saugestad Rink is a place where magic happens. Even… more >
A place to call home
Auggies past and present participate in Homecoming festivities.
Auggies incoming
Augsburg welcomes the class of 2029
Combating misinformation through strategic communication
On the spot with Assistant Professor Yuming FangYuming Fang takes the “critical thinkers” part of Augsburg’s mission statement seriously. Now in her second year as an assistant professor of communication studies, she is an expert in… more >
Diana Reyes ’26 named a Newman Civic Fellow
Diana Reyes ’26 is among the student civic leaders recently named to the 2025–26 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows by Campus Compact. Campus Compact is a national coalition of… more >
Star Tribune features Augsburg’s ‘transformation’
In a September 27 commentary by business columnist Evan Ramstad, the Minnesota Star Tribune highlighted Augsburg’s transformation over the past decade into Minnesota’s most diverse private… more >