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  • Gustavus to Establish Initial Master’s Program

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    Gustavus officials have announced the school’s first-ever master’s degree program for students interested in careers in athletic training and related fields. The College’s new Master of Athletic Training (MAT) program will address current and projected labor shortages and changing national certification requirements for athletic training while capitalizing on the school’s nearly 50-year history of athletic…

  • Five Questions with Alan Page

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    Alan Page has had a remarkable career by any measure—actually, by all measures. After being inducted into two halls of fame, college and pro, for his football prowess, he became Minnesota’s first African American State Supreme Court justice, being elected to the seat three times before retiring in 2015. He’s also published four children’s books…

  • Gustavus to host Justice Alan Page for its MLK Day Celebration

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    Gustavus Adolphus College will mark its annual Rev. Martin Luther King Day Memorial Celebration on Monday, Jan. 16 by welcoming pioneering Justice Alan C. Page, the first African American Supreme Court Justice of Minnesota, as its honored guest. Justice Page will sit down with Phil Bryant ’73, Gustavus professor of English and African Studies, for…

  • 2022 Year in Review

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    The 2022 calendar year was actually a tale of two years. The first part was the second semester of a 2021-22 school year that saw the long-awaited emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic and its many aftereffects. The second was the just-concluded fall semester, a return to a relative “normal” the College hadn’t experienced since 2019,…

  • Cristina Sirbu ’24 Named 2022 St. Lucia

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    Gustavus sophomore Christina Sirbu ’24 was named this year’s St. Lucia during the Dec. 8 festival in Christ Chapel.

  • Gustavus to Receive Grant to Expand STEM Inclusivity

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    The award will be supplemented with similar efforts for non-STEM programs.

  • Gustavus To Celebrate Annual Festival of St. Lucia

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    One sophomore woman will be crowned St. Lucia in the 82nd annual celebration.

  • Gusties Raise $500K for First-Generation Students in One Evening 

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    In a welcome return to in-person philanthropy, A Royal Affair—the Gustie Gala raised more than $500,000 on Saturday, Nov. 12 to support scholarships for first-generation Gustavus students, and another $150,000 for the Gustavus Library Associates (GLA) Endowment Fund. The Folke Bernadotte Library is celebrating its golden anniversary in 2022 and has long been acknowledged as…

  • Meet Kong Yang ’23, Japanese Studies Major and Army Serviceman

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    When Kong Yang was a high school senior in Maplewood, he began to think about ways to pay for college. Born in Thailand, he came to the Twin Cities with his family as a child and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2016. Around that time, his high school hosted career-focused events, and military recruiters…