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- On Move In Day at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, students walk through the university’s Memorial Gate to the applause of parents, faculty and staff. Four years later on graduation day, they will walk out of the gate. Capital University, an ELCA school, will welcome about 745 new students (plus 75 transfer students) this fall.
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- Andrew Larsen, a student at Pacific Lutheran University, was one of two Peace Scholars from Pacific at the Peace Scholars program in Oslo, Norway, this summer. Last spring, Larsen and fellow student Amy Delo attended the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Forum in Minneapolis held at Augsburg College (also an ELCA school) and the University of Minnesota.
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- Pacific Lutheran University student Nellie Moran, an economics and French double major, met some interesting people while working for the Democratic National Committee this summer. Nellie, who graduates in May, would like to eventually run for public office. Pacific Lutheran in Tacoma, Wash., is one of 26 ELCA colleges and universities.
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- As a part of first-year orientation, students at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pa., participate in Gettysburg is Volunteering Day, designed to enable students to help out and get to know their local community. This is performed in conjunction with the college’s award-winning Center for Public Service. Gettysburg is one of the ELCA’s 26 colleges and universities.
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- In anticipation of the 2014-2015 academic year, faculty, staff and students spruce up the campus of Newberry College in Newberry, S.C. Newberry is one of the ELCA’s 26 colleges and universities.
The 500-year-old Lutheran intellectual tradition lives on in ELCA higher education. The 26 colleges and universities of the ELCA offer both undergraduate and graduate education in the best of liberal arts, pre-professional and professional education. Our schools are dedicated to the freedom of inquiry and the development of the whole person. At ELCA colleges and universities, students are educated for a sense of calling or vocation, opening the path toward a meaningful life of contribution to the common good through whatever career they choose. Enjoy these “back to school” images from students at this church’s colleges and universities.
