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Message from the Dean

On behalf of the University of Alberta and its Augustana Campus, I'm pleased to welcome competitors and coaches to the 2009 CCAA cross-country running championships.

Home to about 1000 undergraduate students, Augustana is a small campus at which, we say, big things happen - whether in the classroom, in international and wilderness settings, the fine arts or intercollegiate athletics. While we have been a part of the University of Alberta since 2004, the history of education on this campus stretches back almost a century.

Augustana is particularly proud of the national success that our cross-country running team has had in recent years, under the direction of coaches Gerhard Lotz and Robert Renman. That success has done much to raise the sport's profile on campus and in the community. What's just as important, though, is that we've built a strong, hospitable tradition of race events on our challenging, spectator-friendly course in the Stoney Creek valley. We're confident that you will experience a first-class CCAA championship on the course and throughout your entire stay in east-central Alberta.

Dr. Roger Epp
Dean

About Augustana

Established in 1910 by Norwegian settlers, under the name Camrose Lutheran College, Augustana is still inspired by convictions that are part of its pioneer legacy: that personal wholeness emerges from a liberal education, that the proper end of leadership is service to others, and that the spirit of cooperation so crucial to rural life invigorates human endeavor. As a Faculty of the University of Alberta, Augustana continues to build on its reputation for high-quality teaching in a friendly, caring, residence-based setting. In doing so, it provides a distinctive small-campus undergraduate experience within one of Canada's leading universities. Augustana remains mindful of its heritage, open to a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds, and responsive to the rural region in which it is located.

Augustana Faculty is characterized by a lively, collegial academic culture of research, creativity, and public engagement in which students are invited to participate. It values interdisciplinary inquiry, teaching, and learning. Augustana offers the opportunity of a memorable, life-changing education through small classes, personal attention from professors, a challenging, innovative curriculum founded on the liberal arts and sciences, experiential learning in wilderness and international environments, and a range of campus-life programs. In this academic community, students are more than narrow specialists, spectators, or strangers.

Augustana aspires to educate the whole person in an intimate, small-campus setting so that students and mentors alike are capable of engaging life with intellectual confidence and imaginative insight, equipped for leadership and service, and committed to the betterment of their world.