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Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies winners

The annual Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies is a competition in which students write or compose in music and art their responses to the Holocaust.

Brandon Wilkerson

To find your best career field, choose Augustana

How students go from "undecided" on a major to accomplishing more than they imagined.

 President Emeritus Tredway

Services for President Emeritus Tredway

A celebration of life for Thomas Tredway, president emeritus of Augustana College, will be held April 24 in East Moline, Ill., and a campus memorial will take place April 28.

'Messiah' returns to Augustana May 1

George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” will return to the stage at Augustana College on May 1. The oratorio was an annual favorite at the college for many years, but has not been performed since 2018.

Handel Oratorio Society

Returning 'Messiah' brings back memories

When Professor Olof Olsson came back to Rock Island from London in 1880, he probably had no idea he was about to create a musical tradition, and generations of memories.

Augustana Lutheran church

Bahls to speak at Andover Founder's Day service

President Steve Bahls will speak at the annual Founders Day service at 4 p.m. April 24 at Augustana Lutheran Church in Andover, Ill.

Tredway at the Slough

Campus mourns President Emeritus Tredway

Dr. Thomas Tredway, president emeritus of Augustana College, died on Sunday, April 10, after a brief illness. He was 86.

Alumni remember President Emeritus Dr. Thomas Tredway

Dr. Thomas Tredway ’57, president emeritus of Augustana College, died on April 10. Alumni, staff and friends of the college shared memories of Dr. Tredway.

Milestones during Thomas Tredway's presidency

A list of college milestones during Dr. Thomas Tredway's presidency was published in Augustana Magazine, Winter 2003, on the occasion of his retirement.

Book-carriers from Denkmann to the new Library May 12, 1990

Reflecting on Thomas Tredway’s 39 years at Augustana

Dr. Thomas Tredway kept the mission and identity of Augustana as a liberal arts institution clear and steadfast in often uncertain times. 

Tredway inauguration October 1975

Dr. Thomas Tredway's 1975 inaugural address

Dr. Thomas Tredway was installed as Augustana’s seventh president in an outdoor ceremony in October 1975.

Bahls honored for leadership in career development

Augustana College President Steve Bahls has received the 2022 Career Services Champion Award from the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

2022 Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award winners announced

Kaitlin Jacobson's poem "crooked smile"” won the 23rd annual Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award at Augustana.

Career outcomes

double majors

Class of 2022 outcomes, of those who responded to the survey. Source: Institutional Research at Augustana; CORE (Careers, Opportunities, Research, Exploration) at Augustana



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