StepUP is a nationally known and respected program that supports students in recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. In its first 10 years, StepUP experienced an 84% abstinence rate, and currently students maintain a 2.9 mean cumulative grade-point average. The program has grown from 23 students in 1997 to 64 students in this current year.

Students in the program learn how they can become positively connected to others while maintaining sobriety.  As one student put it, “If treatment was the place I learn how to be a sober individual, StepUP is the place I learn how to be a sober member of a community.”  Through the program, chemically dependent students are given the opportunity to develop the skills and abilities that positively affect their communities, their employers, their families, and society.

The gala and silent auction are open to those interested in recovery and college issues. Tickets are $100 for the general public and $50 for Augsburg College faculty and staff. To request tickets, contact Ericka Otterson at 612-330-1405 or otterson@augsburg.edu.

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Bisanz holds a BFA in Film and Television from New York University’s Tisch School of Arts and an MBA from Oxford and is one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders. He is currently editing his ongoing production “One,” a feature length documentary, which focuses on the positive role of faith and spirituality in modern times by exploring the fundamental unity of the worlds’ religions.

All Convocation speeches are open and free to the public. For additional information on Peter Bisanz’s presentation, visit .

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