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Empowering students with disabilities: A look inside Augie Advocates

Victoria Campbell and Rae Barry April 29, 2023

Augustana strives to dedicate its environment to being an inclusive and diverse space. There are currently advocate groups for people of color and those who identify with the LGBTQ+ community, but not...

Supreme Court threats to affirmative action endanger campus diversity and opportunity

Chloe Baxter November 12, 2022

Colleges across the United States have been free to use affirmative action in admission decisions to contribute to campus diversity, but recent Supreme Court arguments jeopardize this.  Brittanica...

CSD offers new disability minor in spring

Priyanjana Chaudhary October 21, 2022

The communication sciences has a new minor. The disability minor was presented at Wallenberg Hall on Oct. 14 by Dr. Cathy Webb, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders and chair of...

TRIO gives back to the community

Brett Kuras March 2, 2022

The TRIO program at Augustana makes its mark on the community by contributing to a “national day of service” where the students and staff of the program travel the Quad Cities and volunteer at various...

In-person learning requires more resources for mentally and physically disabled students

Kyle King October 21, 2021

Returning students may feel free from being instructed through a screen, and incoming students will finally have the opportunity to take in the environment and the intimacy of the college experience that...

Augustana Has A Service Animal Crisis

Kiera Kunstman November 14, 2019

For a person with a disability, a service animal becomes their own form of life support. A lot of staff and students don’t recognize how vital a service animal is, just because they have not been given...

Sophomore Tracy Pham sharing love with Ozzy in the Gavle rooms on April 5. Photo by Mikaylo Kelly.

Augie holds first ever Ability Awareness Week

Olivia Doak April 11, 2019

From Sunday, March 31 to Saturday, April 6, various organizations and student groups on campus came together to put on Augustana’s first ever Ability Awareness Week. Yen Dao, director of student success...

Think about why you share

Think about why you share

January 21, 2017

In the past several weeks, mixed in among the statuses and dank memes, I’ve seen something disturbing repeatedly shared on Facebook. You’ve probably seen it too--the video of the young disabled man...

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