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Augustana has raised $2.1 of the estimated $2.9 million needed to revitalize the Elmen Center, located on the southwest corner of 33rd Street and Grange Avenue on the university’s campus. The Bob ‘52 & Rita (Hale) Elmen Family Foundation and the James ‘60 & Eloise (Saugstad) ‘61 Elmen Foundation recently contributed $2 million to the project. With the funds the university has already received, Augustana will begin making updates this spring with the anticipated project completion by Summer 2026.

Augustana looks back on the university's top 10 stories of 2025.

The Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana University will open its annual “Augustana High School Invitational,” on Thursday, Jan. 15, which will continue through Friday, Feb. 6. A gallery reception will be held on Feb. 6, from 6-8 p.m., with an awards ceremony at 7:30 p.m. The exhibition and its closing events are free and open to the public.

The Augustana Esports Program — the university’s home of organized gaming — has found a space to call home on campus. Established in 2022, the program acquired a lab on the second floor of the Fryxell Humanities Center this past spring.

The Augustana community came together in 2020 to restore the university’s nearly 40-year-old tracker pipe organ, originally dedicated on December 4, 1983.

This past September, during Augustana’s homecoming week, the Campus Learning Center (CLC) invited family and friends of the CLC to help celebrate its 50th Anniversary. The celebration provided an opportunity for those who had a connection to the CLC to reminisce — whether their memories were made at Old Main, OSL or somewhere in between.

Augustana University is proud to announce that its School of Music (SoM) has teamed up with the Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues (SFJB) Society to provide more outreach to middle and high school students in South Dakota through SFJB’s Jazz Diversity Project (JDP).

Almost 40 years ago, a love story began on Augustana’s campus. The young man happened to be Augustana President Dr. Bill Nelsen, and the woman, a community social worker named Margaret Rossow.

Augustana University announced those students who have been named to the Dean's List for the fall semester of the 2025-26 academic year. View the full list.

A total of 173 Augustana University students chose to make the world their classroom for January Interim (J-Term) 2026 — a 4-week session between semesters designed to be a time of curricular exploration and enrichment for students. The majority — 162 students — are taking part in Augustana faculty-led courses. The remaining 11 students are traveling as part of outside programs.