Augsburg College

Augsburg College

Augsburg College Seal
Motto	Education for Service
Type	Private liberal arts college
Established	1869
Religious affiliation	Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Endowment	$33 million
President	Paul C. Pribbenow
Provost	Karen L. Kaivola
Students	3,822
Undergraduates	3,015
Postgraduates	807
Location	Minneapolis, Minnesota, US Coordinates: 44°57′57″N 93°14′30″W / 44.9659°N 93.2416°W / 44.9659; -93.2416
Campus	Urban
Colors	Maroon and Gray
Athletics	NCAA Division III – MIAC
Nickname	Auggies
Mascot	Eagle
Website	www.augsburg.edu

Old Main of Augsburg College
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	731 21st Ave., S., Minneapolis, Minnesota
Area	less than one acre
Built	1901
Architect	Omeyer, Didrik A.; Thori, Martin P.
Architectural style	Renaissance Revival
NRHP Reference #	83003653
Added to NRHP	October 6, 1983

Augsburg College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Upon its founding in 1869, it was a Norwegian-American Lutheran seminary known as Augsburg Seminary. Its first college class began in the fall of 1874. Today, the college enrolls approximately 3000 undergraduate students and 800 graduate students. The school is known for its emphasis on service learning; volunteering in the community is both an instructional strategy and a required part of a student’s coursework. In 2010 Augsburg College was one of the six higher education institutions to receive the Presidential Award for Community Service, sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service. On March 2, 2017, the school announced effective September 1, 2017 the school would be named Augsburg University.

Augsburg was founded as a seminary by Norwegian Lutherans. It was named after the Augsburg Confession, the confession of faith presented by Lutherans in Augsburg, Germany in 1530. Augsburg opened in September 1869, in Marshall, Wisconsin, and moved to Minneapolis in 1872. Undergraduate classes first began in the fall of 1874 with the first class graduating in the spring of 1879. In 1893, Augsburg leaders formed the "Friends of Augsburg", which became the Lutheran Free Church in 1897. Women were first admitted to the college in 1921. The school was officially known as Augsburg Seminary until 1942 when the name was changed to Augsburg College and Theological Seminary although that name had been informally used since the 1910s. When the Lutheran Free Church merged with the American Lutheran Church in 1963 Augsburg Seminary merged with Luther Seminary in Saint Paul and the name of the school officially became Augsburg College. There was also a high school level Augsburg Academy on campus until it closed in 1933.