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  • Compost Makes College History!

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    lengebr2

    Written by Kendra Held. Photo taken by Sydney Stumme-Berg Gusties returning to campus this February were met with bright yellow compost kirbies at their residential halls and dozens of green compost bins in academic buildings, ready for use! Sustained activism, relationship building, and collective problem solving across departments made this exciting development possible. Never before…

  • Continuation of Compost Updates & Fall Recap

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    lengebr2

    Wanting to gauge students’ accuracy in sorting their waste, compost, and recycling, Intern Held organized a “sorting party” to gather information through a hands-on experience. For a two-week period in November, Interns bundled up in PPE to sort through the recently placed yellow compost kirbies outside residents’ halls to identify if students were composting and…

  • Compost Recap of Fall, Updates for Spring

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    lengebr2

    Interns have been working with Building Services, Physical Plant, and Directors of the Johnson Center to work on incorporating more composting on campus, including Res Halls, and Academic Buildings. Look for the recently placed yellow compost kirbies outside of Residential Halls, and new green bins inside Academic Buildings come Spring Semester, starting February 1! Throughout…

  • Education Faculty and Students Present at the National Association for Multicultural Education Conference

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    snowell

    Associate Professor of Education Lisa Dembouski and students Payton Buss ’21, Casey Olson ’21, Abbie Ranzau ’21, and Andrew Stumbo ’21 presented Teaching and Teacher Preparation *as* Activism for Peace and Justice at the 30th Annual (and first ever virtual) National Association for Multicultural Education (N.A.M.E.) Conference, October 9-10, 2020. Their interactive discussion shared the experiences…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Ortmann

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    snowell

    Lisa Ortmann (Education) published an article in Reading Horizons titled “The Learner Profiles of Novice Literacy Coaches” which was a multi-year and multi-institutional study of the ways new literacy coaches learn coaching discourses.

  • Gustavus Launches “Learning for Life” Podcast

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    The new podcast hosted by Greg Kaster explores the intersections of liberal arts learning and is available on most popular platforms.