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Augustana College audiovisual collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 395
Abstract
The Augustana College audiovisual collection, 1930-2016 and undated, contains video recordings (including films, videotapes, and digital video) and audio recordings (including audiotapes, audiocassettes, and compact discs) related to Augustana College and the Quad City community. Recordings capture campus events, interviews with Augustana faculty and staff, promotional footage, musical performances, religious services, radio broadcasts, and other topics.
Dates:
1930-2019 and undated
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Augustana College Office of Academic Affairs records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 42
Abstract
The Office of Academic Affairs and its predecessors, including the Office of the Dean, have overseen the following functions at Augustana College: ortganizing faculty development, assessing the Augustana College curriculum, managing accreditation, establishing the budget, coordinating the general education curriculum, academic advising, and linking to the faculty governance structure at the College. The Augustana College Office of Academic Affairs records, 1948-2017 and undated, contains...
Dates:
1948-2017 and undated
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Augustana College Office of Development records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 38
Abstract
The Office of Development (now the Office of Advancement) at Augustana College creates capital campaigns and fundraising strategies in order to raise money to improve and develop the Augustana campus and facilities. While fundraising took place throughout the history of the college, the development office was officially established during the C.W. Sorensen administration. The Office of Development records, 1938-2012 and undated, contains donor lists, newsletters, progress reports, mailings,...
Dates:
1928-2012 and undated
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Augustana College Office of Residential Life records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 265
Abstract
The Office of Residential Life deals with student living arrangements. They place students in dorms or TLAs (Transitional Living Areas). The office also matches roommates, and deals with any change in a student’s living situation. Staff in Residential Life enforce rules and regulations, as well as provide support and activities for students in their assigned areas. Materials in this collection include handbooks on living in the dorms for incoming freshmen, blank forms concerning dorm room...
Dates:
circa 1956-2010
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Augustana Women records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 24
Abstract
On 16 October 1946, the wives of Augustana College faculty members, women faculty members, and women in the administration organized the social group first known as the Augustana Dames. The women agreed to meet five times per year and pay annual dues of one dollar. A constitution was adopted in 1964. The group changed its name to the Augustana Women in 1984. The Augustana Women records, 1946-1996 and undated, contains the official records of the group. The collection is organized into five...
Dates:
1946-1996 and undated
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Conrad Bergendoff papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 5
Abstract
Conrad Bergendoff was the fifth president of Augustana College. Bergendoff was born in rural Nebraska in 1895. He attended Augustana College, and was a member of the class of 1915. He also earned a divinity degree from Augustana Seminary. After several years Bergendoff returned to the seminary as the dean, then as the president of the seminary and the college in 1935. After the seminary split from the college in 1948, Bergendoff remained the president of the college for fourteen more years....
Dates:
1869-1998 and undated
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Betsey Brodahl papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 72
Abstract
Betsey Brodahl was born and raised in Wahoo, Nebraska, where she attended grade school and high school and one year at Luther College. Upon the urging of two instructors at Luther College, Brodahl applied at Augustana College to continue her college education. She was accepted, and graduated with a B. A. in history in 1944. Wanting a new experience, Brodahl went on to pursue graduate studies at Syracuse and Stanford. Her studies were interrupted in 1947 when Conrad Bergendoff, then president...
Dates:
1967-2009 and undated
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Herbert L. Glynn correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 239
Abstract
Herbert L. Glynn was a former student and administrator for Augustana College. Glynn graduated from the College with his BA in 1926. He returned to Augustana in 1944 as the director of administrations. Glynn also held posts as the director of admissions and records, the director of field services, assistant to the president, financial aid officer, director of non-academic public events, and research associate. In his role as a research associate (which the papers in this collection pertain...
Dates:
1969-1974
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Hold Augie Accountable Protest collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 408
Abstract
The Hold Augie Accountable protest was held in October 2016, following an incident involving racist statements chalked around Augustana’s campus. This collection documents the chalking incident, the protest, and the immediate aftermath of the protest, including policy decisions made by Augustana administrators and students’ reactions. The collection includes agendas, speeches, news articles, photographs, recordings, artwork, artifacts, and web content generated during the protests.
Dates:
2014-2016
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Harry S. B. Johnson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 166
Abstract
Harry S. B. Johnson served as a professor and, later, Dean of Men at Augustana College from 1940 to 1976.
The Harry S. B. Johnson papers, 1948-1975 and undated, contains professional correspondence and other documents recording Johnson's activities as the Dean of Men at Augustana College in the 1950s. Topics include students’ academic standing, campus housing accommodations, and disciplinary actions. Included is a folder of material related to a Nigerian student named Mashood Olabisi Ajala,...
Dates:
1948-1975 and undated
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections