Emotional Well Being: Caring for Your Emotional and Mental Health
Campus Safety: The Office of Campus Safety is committed to supporting your emotional well-being by providing protective solutions and services in your time of need.
Dean of Students Office: The Dean of Students Office is a resource for students and all other members of the campus community. Personnel in this office are committed to promoting enlightened citizenship, respect for human community and the development of healthy lifestyles.
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: Students will be able to demonstrate techniques and utilize tools to interrupt micro-aggressions and bias behaviors that adversely impact systematically marginalized communities. Bias Education & Response Team | Mindful Monday signature program | Affinity Group support.
Faith & Spiritual Life: The Office of Faith & Spiritual Life encourages students to explore their faith through daily worship and other spiritual practices. Bible studies and other small group gatherings offer student safe spaces to unpack big questions about God, themselves and the world around them.
Mental Health Services: Augustana University works closely with Sioux Falls Psychological Services, which provides students with a comprehensive and multidisciplinary group of more than a dozen mental health professionals. Students will receive confidential, individual counseling for a variety of personal issues such as adjustment to college, self-esteem, anxiety, depression and loss. The mental health & wellness specialist is committed to educating the campus community on mental health and also serves as a confidential resource for students. Students can receive confidential, individual counseling for a variety of personal issues such as adjustment to college, self-esteem, anxiety, depression and loss.
Recreational Services: Recreational Services programs offer vigorous, fun-filled, health-promoting, physical activity conducive to wellness and personal development. The campus recreational program provides the entire Augustana community with the obvious benefits of physical fitness, but also new and lifelong friends, self-satisfaction and enjoyment, lifelong leisure time skills, and social and ethical qualities. Both formal and informal activities encompass team sports, individual and dual sports, competitive and non-competitive activities, and a variety of fitness programs. Programs and activities are centered in fitness and wellness, sport club activities, intramurals, late nights and more!
Residence Life: Residence Life strives to create vibrant and welcoming communities within Augustana’s on-campus housing facilities where students feel safe, valued, included and empowered.