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January Meeting Minutes
PCDEI Leadership Team Meeting January 13, 3:00 – 4:00, Zoom Call PCDEI-Leadership@gustavus.edu In attendance: Siri Erickson, Ron White, President Bergman, Carlos Mejia, Amy Mukamuri, Tom Flunker, Marie Walker, Alexys Guidry, Kathi Tunheim Agenda: 1.MLK and DEI Education roll-out to the campus community MLK (1/18/21) will launch the courses people will choose. 2.New employee in CIE: […]
Gustavus Winter Sports Begin MIAC Schedules Feb. 6
Gustavus winter sports teams will begin their conference seasons on Saturday, Feb. 6 after the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Presidents' Council voted to approve plans for a return to competitive athletics this winter.
A Semester of COVID-19: How We ROARed
“The way we responded to COVID shows a lot about who we are.” —Barb Larson Taylor ’93
COVID-19 Weekly Update: January 12, 2021
TO: The Gustavus Community FROM: COVID-19 Response Leadership Team SUBJECT: COVID-19 Weekly Update DATE: January 12, 2021 Please see below for the COVID-19 weekly tip and on-campus case update. WEEKLY TIP The “Lay Low” period that the College implemented for the first week of January Term has come to a close and Gustavus has transitioned back to its “Orange” Safety Phase that was […]
S.7 E.1: “I Don’t Have Time for You to Be Demoralized”
Learning for Life @ Gustavus podcast host Greg Kaster interviews geology and environmental studies professor Laura Triplett.
Updated Website Search Results
Recently, Technology Services updated the search feature on the Gustavus website. Search results will now, by default, be prioritized with more recent results displayed at the top. An “advanced settings” option has also been added to allow users to further refine search results by selecting start and/or end dates. It is hoped that these changes […]
Hall of Famers Coached by a Hall of Famer; 1950s Golden Era of Gustie Men’s Hoops
The 1950s truly was the golden era of Gustavus men’s basketball. Head Coach Gus Young guided the Gusties to three consecutive runner-up finishes in the MIAC before dethroning Jon Hutton’s Hamline Pipers for conference championships in 1954, 1955, and 1956.
Monday Moments with President Bergman: January 11, 2021
Gustavus President Rebecca M. Bergman shares her thoughts with College students, faculty, and staff each week.
Faculty Spotlight: Lynnea Myers
Lynnea Myers (Nursing), along with colleagues from the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden) and Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus, Ohio) recently published an article titled “Actionable and incidental neuroradiological findings in twins with neurodevelopmental disorders” in Scientific Reports.
Faculty Spotlight: Kathy Lund Dean
Kathy Lund Dean (Economics and Management) had two articles appear at the end of 2020. The first, titled “Premises, promises and perils of the Academic Potemkin Village,” was published in Management Learning, and argues for leveraging collaboration and consortia in higher education as one solution to financial distress. The second, titled “Experiential pedagogy and the […]