PURPOSE OF THE BSU:

• To provide the Augustana Community with a new or better understanding and awareness of the cultural, traditional, and historical background of the Black American.

• To inspire Black youth to excel to heights not previously known to our people by first aiding them in achieving the mark of excellence in their academic relationship with Augustana College, and preparing them on how to survive in a white world.

• To establish social and cultural relations with Augustana, and provide assistance as best we can to the underprivileged and unattended to within the Rock Island Black Community.

• To support and defend the human and civil rights of other minorities at Augustana, and function as a station to which they can come when they feel their rights have been infringed upon.

• To discourage racial insensitivity through awareness activities, and to react accordingly to racial disparaging language and other violations of our human and civil rights which will interfere with our physical and psychological well-being while we are enrolled at Augustana.