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While the start of a new semester can result in a sense of excitement around campus, it can also cause a significant drop in many students’ bank accounts as they buy new textbooks. The Education Data Initiative states that full-time undergraduate students in the United States spend an average of

Augustana recently introduced a new tool to help students register and prepare for their classes. The syllabus repository, introduced last December, is an online database containing syllabi of classes taught by participating professors. Students can see syllabi with previous assignments, projects and workloads to get a sense for the class

After tuition was frozen during the 2020-2021 school year, Augustana will increase undergraduate tuition by 3.84% Augustana will increase undergraduate tuition by nearly 4% for the 2022-23 academic year, up from the 0% for the 2021-2022 year. This increase translates to an additional $1,398 for undergraduates in the

Although the National Weather Service is predicting a normal amount of precipitation and normal temperatures for the upcoming winter months, students and staff should prepare for cold weather to begin earlier than last year. This year will be a La Niña year, meaning colder waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean

Bees will be added to campus this spring, bringing with them the hope for greater biodiversity, interconnectedness with the environment and sustainability efforts. “I think they’ll do some good work in pollinating, and they’ll also teach us something about where our food comes from,” said professor David O’

The Writing Center will have access to a new software to help students by this January. The Augustana Student Association voted last month to fund Grammarly accounts for use by Writing Center tutors. The resolution, introduced by senators Slater Dixon and Britney Thong Sing Yi, allocates $151 to the Writing