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Augustana University is a private Lutheran university in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The university was called Augustana College and Seminary from 1860 to 1918, Augustana College and Normal School from 1918 to 1926, and Augustana College from 1926 to 2015. Established in 1889, the Lutheran Normal School merged with Augustana in 1918.
Augustana College is a private Lutheran college in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. The college enrolls approximately 2,350 students. The college enrolls approximately 2,350 students. Its campus is adjacent to the Mississippi River and covers 115 acres (46.5 ha) of hilly, wooded land.
It derives its name from the Confessio Augustana, or Augsburg Confession, a foundational document of Lutheranism. Until September 2015, the university was known as Augustana College. Augustana is South Dakota's largest private university [8] and offers more than 100 majors, minors, and pre-professional and graduate programs.
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He saw the college through the difficult years of the Great Depression, through its separation from Augustana Theological Seminary in 1948, and into a long period of substantial growth and increasing prestige. [1] Among his most notable achievements was the ecumenical spirit he engendered in American Lutherans from the late 1930s going forward.
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He attended Augustana College in nearby Rock Island, graduating in 1922 with majors in biology and English. He was a founding father of the Gamma Alpha Beta fraternity at Augustana College. Fryxell earned a Master's degree in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and then a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Chicago.