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Nursing students trade clinicals for online simulations amid pandemic

Junior nursing major Morgan Closman drew her first vial of blood while on her second clinical rotation, the first of the spring semester. She held her first baby as a nursing student on the Avera pediatric floor, and sat in on her first-ever angiogram. Closman started to feel like a

Student teaching moves online for education majors

As one of her 24 second graders straightened a ruler along yellow construction paper, Elise Oren bent over their desk to help with the student’s block art, a project that uses squares and rectangles to teach math measurements. Oren, an elementary education major, began student teaching second grade with

Coping with COVID-19: Students grasp for routine without classes, athletics

Waking up at the same early time every day, junior Hailey Nold rolls out of bed in her parents’ Sioux Falls home and begins to arrange the blankets, sheets and pillows. “I have had to be super good about making my bed and keeping that mode of productivity,” Nold said.

Meier: I’m a VA for an almost vacant campus. Here’s what it’s like.

As I sit here typing this, I’m in my dorm room. But the building no longer feels like a dorm. COVID-19 has turned it into a ghost town. I’m a Viking Adviser, or VA, on the southside of campus, and both Bergsaker and Solberg usually have this specific

Augustana’s next top model: Religion professor doubles as shoe connoisseur

As the second week of online classes comes to a close, you may find yourself missing your professors and the impeccable styles they sport. Never fear, as The Augustana Mirror is back with part two of Augustana’s Next Top Model. This week’s fashion spotlight is Richard Bowman and

Administration expands S/U grading policy in response to online courses

Last week, the Augustana administration announced a change to the S/U grading policy for this semester that will give students more options as they navigate their newly online courses. Last week in an email to students, Provost and Executive Vice President Colin Irvine said the Curriculum Council had approved

PBR: Animal Crossing lets you make friends when quarantine doesn’t

If you’ve finished watching Netflix’s “Tiger King” but you still want to play with animals, I have the activity for you. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the perfect way to kill time in quarantine. Essentially, the premise of the game is that you do whatever you want in