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27-547: The Lutheran Minnesota Conference was one of the 13 conferences of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Synod . Formed by Swedish immigrants in the 1800s, it originally encompassed Minnesota, parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Canada, and Wisconsin. Its size was substantially reduced years later when Alexandria, Fargo, and Red River Districts became the Red River Valley Conference in 1912, and

54-589: A 2-billion-year-old fossil. There is also a complete 22-foot-long (6.7 m) skeleton of Cryolophosaurus , a large, crested carnivorous dinosaur discovered in Antarctica in 1991 by Augustana paleontologist William Hammer . The museum is located in the Swenson Hall of Geosciences. The most popular undergraduate majors at Augustana, based on 2021 graduates, were: The college is classified as "more selective" accepting 41% of applicants. Since 1950, Augustana has had

81-510: A National Band Association chapter, American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), Paintball Team (NCPA), American String Teachers Association (ASTA), College Democrats of America , College Republicans , Psychology Club, Business Club, DDR Club, Anime Club, Asian Student Organization (ASO), Latinx Unidos, Investment Club, Ladies of Vital Essence (L.O.V.E.), The Order of the Phoenix, Martial Arts Club, Student Government Association and Viking Pups,

108-469: A cadaver lab), a 400 MHz liquid-and solid-state NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectrometer, scanning electron microscope, instrumentation for X-ray powder crystallography and a fully functioning 40-foot (12 m) greenhouse. In October 2021, Augustana dedicated the Peter J. Lindberg, M.D., Center for Health and Human Performance in honor of alumnus Peter J. Lindberg. The 52,000-square-foot Lindberg Center

135-501: A chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. The college also has non-"Greek" collegiate fraternal organizations, including Epsilon Tau Pi (ΕΤΠ)(Eagle Scouts), Alpha Phi Omega (APO) (service), Sigma Alpha Iota (SAI) (music), Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (PMA) (music), Epsilon Sigma Alpha (ESA) (Service), Alpha Psi Omega (ΑΨΩ) (theater), and others. The Omicron chapter of Phrateres , a non-exclusive, non-profit social-service club,

162-566: A club dedicated to training service dogs on campus. Augustana College is located on the east side of Rock Island and is accessible via the Quad Cities MetroLINK . Routes 10, 53, and 57 provide bus service from campus to downtown Rock Island, downtown Moline and other destinations. Augustana athletic teams are nicknamed as the Vikings. The college is a member of the Division III level of

189-840: A combined total of 25 male and female team sports, and five out of seven students compete in some form of varsity , club, or intramural sport. The Vikings previously competed as a member of the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) from 1912–13 to 1936–37. Augustana College competes in 28 intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, eSports, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, volleyball, water polo and wrestling; while women's sports include basketball, bowling, cross country, eSports, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, volleyball, water polo and wrestling;. Between 1983 and 1986,

216-413: A former John Deere CEO. Hanson, who donated $ 8 million to the college, credits his success in life to his time spent at Augustana. The science building, dedicated in 1998 and enlarged in 2019, is the largest academic building serving approximately 700 students in 17 majors, minors and concentrations. The Hanson Hall of Science's facilities and resources include seven classrooms, 35 laboratories (including

243-455: A new institutional structure, including a lively Swedish-language press, many new churches, several colleges, and a network of ethnic organizations. The result was to foster a sense of Swedishness with pride in the United States. Thus, there emerged a self-confident Americanized generation. Augustana College put itself in the lead of the movement to affirm Swedish American identity. Early on all

270-878: Is a private Lutheran college in Rock Island, Illinois . The college enrolls approximately 2,349 students. Its campus is adjacent to the Mississippi River and covers 115 acres (46.5 ha) of hilly, wooded land. Augustana College was founded as Augustana College and Theological Seminary in 1860 by the Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod . Located first in Chicago, it moved to Paxton, Illinois , in 1863 and to Rock Island, Illinois, its current home, in 1875. After 1890, an increasingly large Swedish American community in America promoted

297-680: Is home to the college's new kinesiology program and growing public health program, as well as the men's and women's swimming/diving and new water polo teams. Augustana has five traditional residence halls: Andreen Hall, Erickson Residence Center, Seminary Hall, Swanson Commons, and Westerlin Residence Center. All five of these residence halls are coeducational. The majority of first-year and sophomore-year students typically reside in one of these five residence halls. For juniors, Augustana also offers Transitional Living Areas (TLAs), apartment-like complexes or traditional off-campus houses administered by

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324-570: The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) for almost all of their sports since the 1946–47 academic year. The only current exception is women's bowling, in which the Vikings are charter members of the single-sport Central Intercollegiate Bowling Conference (CIBC) that began competition in the 2019–20 season. The Vikings compete in

351-723: The Norwegian Augustana Synod . Also in 1870, the synod was renamed the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod in North America. In 1894 the name was changed to Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod in North America . In 1948, the name Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church was adopted. In 1922, the synod was given equal standing in Sweden with the Swedish synods. Originally somewhat conservative,

378-724: The Alberta District and Canada Mission field became the Canada Conference in 1913. With the creation of the Lutheran Church in America (LCA) in 1962, it became known as the Minnesota Synod. Organizers of the Minnesota Conference were Rev. Peter Carlson , Rev. Eric Norelius , Rev. Peter Beckman, Rev. Johan Peter Carlson Boren and laymen Daniel Nelson, Hakan Svedberg, Frans C. Bjorklund, and Ole Paulson were present at

405-780: The Augustana Synod. Augustana is a shortened version of Confessio Augustana , the Latin name of one of Lutheranism's defining documents, the Augsburg Confession , presented in 1530 in the German city of Augsburg . Along with the Swedish members of the church were Norwegian and Danish members who left the church in 1870 to form the Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and

432-583: The LCA, the Augustana Synod had 1,353 pastors, 1,219 congregations, and 619,040 members. The Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod in North America was established in 1860. The organizing meeting was held at the Jefferson Prairie Settlement , near Clinton, Wisconsin on June 5–8. A group of Swedish Lutheran pastors including Jonas Swensson , Lars Paul Esbjörn , Tuve Hasselquist , Eric Norelius , and Erland Carlsson pioneered development of

459-758: The Rock Island campus until the 1960s, when the Seminary moved to Chicago. It merged with other Lutheran seminaries to form the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago . Old Main was constructed between 1884 and 1893. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . On August 2, 2010, the New Science Building was officially named the Robert A. and Patricia K. Hanson Hall of Science after Robert Hanson,

486-621: The U.S., and the other institutions are recognized as strong regional colleges. While the Augustana Church had only 600,000 members when the Lutheran Church in America was formed, its influence on its successor bodies has been significant as they incorporated many of Augustana's emphases on mission, ecumenism, and social service. Herbert W. Chilstrom , the first presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ,

513-756: The United States: Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois ; Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota ; Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas ; California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California ; Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska ; and the defunct Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey . Augustana and Gustavus Adolphus consistently rank among the top 100 liberal arts colleges in

540-425: The church gradually turned more liberal after historical criticism was introduced at its seminary. The Augustana Theological Seminary was located on the campus of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois . It was later merged into the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago upon the formation of the Lutheran Church in America in 1962. Augustana Church was the direct parent of several liberal arts colleges in

567-475: The college's Office of Residential Life. These areas usually have 2–6 students who share a bathroom, a kitchen, and other living spaces. Th Fryxell Geology Museum, named after Augustana geologist Fritiof Fryxell , features a large collection of dinosaurs and fossils, rocks and mineral specimens. Displays include a complete skeleton of a Platecarpus "sea serpent", skulls of Parasaurolophus , Ankylosaurus , Apatosaurus , Allosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex and

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594-526: The first meeting of the Minnesota Conference held October 7–9, 1858 at Chisago Lake. At the end of 1961, the Minnesota Conference had the most baptized members of any conference in the Augustana Synod with 182,374 baptized members and 300 congregations. In 1862 members of the Minnesota Conference founded Minnesota Elementary School in Red Wing, which was renamed St. Ansgar’s Academy and moved to East Union in 1865. The institution relocated to Saint Peter in 1876 and

621-468: The students had been born in Sweden but by 1890 the second generation of American-born students predominated. They typically had white-collar or professional backgrounds; few were the sons and daughters of farmers and laborers. These middle class youth developed an idealized view of Sweden, characterized by romanticism, patriotism, and idealism, just like their counterparts across the Atlantic. The new generation

648-705: Was a graduate of the Augustana Theological Seminary and was ordained to Augustana's ministry in 1958. Included among the Augustana-founded congregations is Mount Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis , Minnesota , the largest Lutheran congregation in the world with over 13,000 members. Final statistics of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (December 31, 1961). Augustana College (Illinois) Augustana College

675-568: Was especially proud of the Swedish contributions to American democracy and of the creation of a republic that promised liberty and destroyed the menace of slavery. The college grew by donation of 5 acres (2.0 ha) on the south in 1886 and purchase, enabled by donation of C.J.A. Ericson , of 10–12 acres to the north in 1899. In 1947, when Conrad Bergendoff was college president, the Augustana Seminary formally separated from Augustana College and became an independent body. It remained on

702-403: Was installed here in 1941. Between 1924 and 1967, 23 chapters of Phrateres were installed in universities across North America. (The chapter name "Omicron" was reused for the chapter installed at San José State University .) Augustana has seven sororities and eight fraternities. Augustana has many other organizations, including a chapter of MENC: The National Association for Music Education ,

729-790: Was officially recognized as Gustavus Adolphus College . Other educational institutions erected by the Minnesota Conference include Minnesota College, founded in 1904, Lutheran Bible Institute , founded in 1919, and North Star College and Northwestern College , which both became part of the Red River Conference. Apple River District, Big Stone District, Chisago District, Cokato District, Goodhue District, Iron Range District, Lake Superior District, Mille Lacs District, Minneapolis District, Montevideo District, St. Croix District, St. James District, St. Paul District, St. Peter District, Sioux Falls District, Willmar District Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church In 1961, just before its merger into

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