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  • Coming of Age at Gustavus. Coming Home to Gustavus.

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    kdoolitt

    The year is 2011. Seniors and roommates Kimberley Braun, Lydia Francis, and Samuel Grace, who met as first-years in the campus production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, are preparing for the inevitable time when they must leave their beloved Gustavus community. Questions surrounding internships, graduate school, and the workforce…

  • Eating With Intentionality at Gustavus

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    kdoolitt

    The love for food runs deep throughout the Gustavus campus. The romanticization for home cooking, the good ol’ reliable chicken strip-and-fries combo, and the adornment for the STEAMeries sammies (can’t go wrong with the Cuban), unite the student body and faculty members. “Ooh, you know what sounds good right now…” is one of the Gusties’…

  • Gustavus J-Term Highlights Experience and Experimentation

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    admin

    With each new January comes the opportunity for the Gustavus community to depart from the standard semester class structures and calendar and take the month to try something different. J-Term is when students and faculty spend the month traveling and studying off campus, exploring potential career paths, or diving deeply into academic subjects in ways…

  • Gustavus to Establish Initial Master’s Program

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    admin

    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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    admin

    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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    admin

    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,…

  • Gustavus to Receive Grant to Expand STEM Inclusivity

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    admin

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

  • Gustavus To Celebrate Annual Festival of St. Lucia

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    harrietanderson

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