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More than 450 students at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, participated in City Service Day this year, an oppor- tunity to go off campus to complete service projects in city neighbor- hoods. First-year students annually provide nonprofits and organizations
with more than $25,000 worth of vol- unteer work during the event, held on their first day of class as “Auggies.”
Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., this year revised its “Five Faith Com- mitments,” a statement that seeks to
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define what it means to be a college related to the ELCA. The revisions were made on the 10-year anniver- sary of the college’s adoption of the document in 2005. The statement places a renewed emphasis on inter- faith engagement, which the college has focused on in recent years. As an example of this focus, the col- lege’s international club hosted a cel- ebration of Holi, a Hindu festival of colors.
Carthage College, Kenosha, Wis., opened its new science center in September. The facility features an outdoor classroom and 12 labs, and gathering spaces for students and faculty to collaborate. The $43 mil- lion project included a major reno- vation of the 70,000-square-foot David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Natural and Social Sciences and a new 35,000-square-foot wing that embraces the college’s location on the Lake Michigan shore. In the past decade, the percentage of Carthage graduates who have a degree in a nat- ural science has doubled, along with the percentage of incoming students interested in those majors.
The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago master’s level public church curriculum was recently named as one of the 24 “most innovative and out-of-the-box programs in theo- logical education in North America” by Convergence U.S. Launched in fall 2014, the curriculum develops competencies for leadership in a public church that focus on commu- nity engagement, public witness and social transformation. At the Conver- gence U.S. Reimagining Theological Education Summit Oct. 9–11 in Chi- cago, Esther Menn, academic dean, and faculty members Ray Pickett,
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