AUGUSTANA COLLEGE

private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Rock Island, Ill., U.S. The college is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Augustana offers only Bachelor of Arts degrees and has a curriculum of education, business, and the liberal arts and sciences. It operates study-abroad programs in Latin America, Asia, Israel, and Europe. The campus is home to the John Deere Planetarium. Collinson Ecological Preserve and Green Wing Environmental Laboratory provide the college with nearly 500 acres of research and teaching land. Total enrollment is about 2,100. Lutheran immigrants from Sweden, most of them graduates of the universities of Uppsala and Lund, founded the college in 1860. It was originally sited in Chicago and was named Augustana College and Theological Seminary. The school moved to Paxton in 1863, then to Rock Island in 1875. The theological seminary separated from the college in 1948.