Office of Academic Affairs

As the center for academic programs at Augustana University, the Office of Academic Affairs provides a wide array of services and information, 包括:

• Academic Programs
• Dean of Students Office & Student Life
• Department Chair 资源
• 注册商's Office
• Undergraduate Research & Artistic Creation

The Augustana University Office of Academic Affairs is led by Interim Provost Dr. Joel Johnson. Johnson joined Augustana in 2003, teaching courses in political philosophy, American political thought, 政治 & literature and Asian 政治. He was named interim provost by President Stephanie Herseth Sandlin in February 2023, following the announcement that Provost & Executive Vice President Dr. Colin Irvine would be leaving Augustana at the end of the academic year to assume a new role as president of Concordia College in Moorhead, 明尼苏达州, 7月1日. Johnson received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he served as a lecturer on government. In 2010-11, he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in American studies at the University of Marburg in Germany. From 2013 to 2016, he was appointed Augustana's Stanley L. Olsen Chair of Moral 值. The primary focus of his research is 18th and 19th-century American political thought. Johnson is the author of Beyond Practical Virtue: A Defense of Liberal Democracy through Literature (University of Missouri Press, 2007), in addition to numerous articles and book chapters.