Volunteering and Community Service
Volunteer Services, Campus Ministries, and Service-Learning provide Augie students with many different opportunities to serve the community. Through these organizations, students learn and gain meaningful experiences while they work toward their college educations.
- Volunteer Services— This organization provides volunteer opportunities to the students by bringing projects to campus and by sending students into Sioux Falls and the surrounding communities. Volunteer Services oversees Serving and Learning Together (SALT), Augustana's student organization that coordinates various volunteer efforts.
- Campus Ministry—The Augustana Student Congregation encourages students to express, explore and expand faith and develop leadership skills through a variety of service opportunities.
- Service-Learning Programs—Augustana’s Service-Learning Programs (sometime referred to as Experiential-Learning) integrate community service with academic study to meet specific student learning goals.
Learn ways Augustana students are supporting the Haitian people in light of the January 2010 earthquake, as well as events, campus resources and news of Augustana alumni who were affected.
Recent past projects include:
- Celebrating Augustana's 16th annual Community Service Day through the participation of 475 students giving their time and talents to 29 local non-profit organizations.
- Over 3,000 lb of food were raised for Feeding South Dakota during this years Community Service Day.
- Preparing and serving meals for 300 or more guests at The Banquet, a Sioux Falls non-profit organization that feeds the hungry.
- Worshipping with and providing special music for the men of St. Dysmas, the congregation inside the walls of the South Dakota State Penitentiary.
- Expanding markets for small-scale farmers and artisans by selling fairly traded coffee and hand-crafted Guatemalan gifts.
- Traveling for service-learning projects during fall, interim or spring breaks to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in western South Dakota, the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, and a New York City soup kitchen.
- As the 2009 fall semester came to an end, students and staff took the time to make sure those less fortunate would experience some joy this Christmas.