Gustavus Blogs

Month: November 2023

  • Alpha Sigma Tau hosts “Know Your Worth” brunch for fundraiser

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    gkearney

    Grace LaTourelle- Alpha Sigma Tau (AST) is hosting their annual brunch on Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to noon. The theme of this year’s brunch is ‘Know Your Worth’, and will take place in Alumni Hall. The free brunch will be accompanied by a presentation with speaker and Mental Health Therapist Jessica Auel, a performance by…

  • “Hate in the heartland”; Samuel Freedman talks about civil rights history

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    gkearney

    Elliot Steeves- Samuel Freedman, a nationally renowned columnist, author, and Professor of Journalism at Columbia College, gave a lecture on his new book, Into The Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights. The talk took place on Oct. 30th from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in Alumni Hall. Freedman aimed to…

  • Pizzas, profs, and the past

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    gkearney

    Katie Samek- The Gustavus History Department would like to formally invite you to join them for “Pizza, Profs, and the Past” on Tuesday, Nov. 7th from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Beck 301. This year’s event, “We Were Displaced”, will be discussing Estonia’s Swedish minority during its periods of occupation under both Soviet and…

  • First-Term Seminars Aren’t Just Academic

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    admin

    Many colleges offer classes that help their first-year students get comfortable with the unfamiliar pace of higher education. Gustavus supplements this by utilizing the maturity and leadership qualities of our older students to make the first-year acclimation process even more comprehensive and fruitful. All new Gusties take a First-Term Seminar (FTS), small, discussion-based courses that…

  • Curriculum Change Transparency Panel

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    admin

    Yesterday, November 1, 2023, Provost Brenda Kelly, Dean Sarah Ruble, and Professor Kate Knutson held a transparency panel over Gustavus’s curriculum changes. These changes were researched and created by a Faculty Task Force convening last winter. The changes were officially approved by the entire faculty on October 6, 2023. All the information for the panel…

  • Enriching the Liberal Arts Through Music

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    elliotsteeves

    More than a decade before I arrived at Gustavus, when I was in third grade, they forced me to play cello. I was a student at a Waldorf school, an alternative educational philosophy that believes in tying a young person’s education to the way they play and interact with the world. Ideally, it improves executive…

  • Gustavus Inaugurates New Bonnier Reading Room & Jewish Studies Library

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    SJ Kessler

    On Tuesday, October 31, Gustavus Adolphus College and the Department of Religion inaugurated the new Åke & Kristina Bonnier Reading Room and Jewish Studies Library (OM 303). Scores of donors to volumes for the Library, as well as students, staff, faculty, and administrators at the College attended the event. The inauguration featured comments from President…

  • Student Voices: Vampires are Everywhere

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    aadams3

    Garek Dobosenski ’26, Cece Erickson ’26, Adam Boyens ’27, and Rebekah Moll ’27 published compositions comparing vampiric creatures from global cultures through partnership with East-West Connections in Minneapolis-St. Paul. The texts of their publications, as well as an introduction to the project “Student Voices: Vampires are Everywhere” by Annalise Rivas (REES/MLLC) can be found at…

  • Advising Day @ the Library

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    ahulsebe

    Join us! Advising Day @ the Library: Tuesday, November 7 Open House: 9:00 am – 3:30 pm Stress Less @ the Library with Tea Tuesday, treats, and prize drawings! Learn about: Library internships, graduate programs, and careers in libraries & archives For more information: Visit our Careers in Librarianship & Archives guide PS: November 7…

  • Intersections: Number 58 (Fall 2023)

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    krwinter

    Intersections is the biannual publication by the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU). Each issue reflects on faith, learning, and teaching within Lutheran higher education, especially as these intersect with contemporary challenges, opportunities, and initiatives. The legacy and continuing practice of Lutheran reforms related to education include expanding access, opportunity, and inclusion across all…