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Campus Connection

An update from the president to alumni and parents

MCA announces new partnership with Riverway Learning Community

WINONA, Minn. — Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts and Riverway Learning Community are excited to announce they have formed a new partnership designed to help students regularly engage with the arts.

Starting this fall, Riverway Learning Community students in Children’s House, Elementary I, and Elementary II (pre-K through sixth grade) will have the opportunity explore music and reap the benefits during weekly visits to Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts (MCA) home inside the Valéncia Arts Center, 1164 W Howard St.

Research shows that students who participate in the arts on a regular basis not only find enjoyment in them and improve their skills in the subject studied but also show signs of improved language abilities, emotional resilience, empathy, attention span, and self-confidence.

Students at Riverway, a unique pre-K through 12th grade Minnesota Charter Public School that offers small class sizes and an environment that nurtures the growth of mind, body, and spirit of students as individuals and as members of the larger community, also have the opportunity to see many live performances and participate in workshops through the Page Series at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and a partnership with Midwest Music Fest.

MCA is a non-profit organization and affiliate program of Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota with a mission of making the arts accessible to all residents of southeastern Minnesota regardless of ability, age, race, or economic background.

Riverway and MCA are hopeful that this partnership is only the beginning of a long collaboration that will ideally expand in the future to include instruction for students in seventh through 12th grade. Any community members interested in providing financial support to help provide musical opportunities to enrich the lives of Riverway students are invited to contact either Oscar Uribe, director of Riverway, at ouribe@riverwaylearningcommunity.org or Jamie Schwaba, managing director of MCA, at jschwaba@smumn.edu.

About Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts

The Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts, an affiliate program of Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, is a nonprofit organization offering programming in dance, music, visual art, and theater. Classes, lessons, workshops, and camps are offered for students of all ages from birth through older adults at the Valéncia Arts Center. For more information, go to mca.smumn.edu, email mca@smumn.edu, or call 507-453-5500.

About Riverway Learning Community

Riverway Learning Community is a pre-K through 12th grade public charter school sponsored by the Audubon Center of the North Woods that offers individualized learning in a Montessori and project-based setting. For more information, go to riverwaylearningcommunity.org, email riverway@riverwaylearningcommunity.org, or call 507-450-4607.

Jazz at Saint Mary’s announces 2018-19 season

Jazz at Saint Mary’s announces 2018-19 season

WINONA, Minn. — As the school year begins again, it’s time to mark your calendars for another great year of programming presented by Jazz at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.

The season kicks off at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 29, with a preview of this season’s Red Bird Club show Christmas in New Orleans during Saint Mary’s Family Weekend. A drawing for up to four complimentary tickets to the Dec. 7 performance will be held at this event.

The Red Bird Club opened its doors in 2014 at the Valéncia Arts Center, 1164 W Howard St. If you have never heard of it, it may be because the doors only open once every two years.  Every other December, the theatre is transformed into an American Jazz Cabaret, showcasing the talents of Saint Mary’s University student musicians.

This year the Red Bird Club will take a trip to the birthplace of jazz — New Orleans. Christmas in New Orleans will feature a group of crooners, an emcee, beer and wine service, and a dancefloor. Make your reservations today or you’ll have to wait until their next performance in 2020.

Rounding out the fall schedule is the Jazz Final on Sunday, Dec. 16, beginning at 3 p.m. Twice a year, all three of the university’s jazz groups get together for an informal afternoon of great music in a casual setting. The event is free and the public is invited to join the musicians in the Cardinal Club of the Toner Student Center on the Winona Campus as they celebrate the end of another great semester of Jazz at Saint Mary’s.

The spring season will come early for Jazz Combo 1 as they embark on an international tour in Germany and Belgium. The public is invited to welcome this group back to Winona at their homecoming performance on Tuesday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Figliulo Recital Hall in the Performance Center at Saint Mary’s University.

On Sunday April 28, at 3 p.m. Jazz at Saint Mary’s will present One Small Step, an exploration of an important turning point in jazz history — the year 1969. From the end of the bossa nova era to the beginnings of jazz fusion, listeners will be transported 50 years back in time on a musical journey.

As no semester at Saint Mary’s University is complete without another Jazz Final, the public is welcome to wrap up the 2018-19 season with a free performance held outdoors in the Saint Mary’s Plaza at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 5.

For more information, contact Director of Jazz Studies A. Eric Heukeshoven at 507-457-7292 or eheukesh@smumn.edu. Ticket information is available at pagetheatre.org or by calling the Page Theatre Box Office at 507-457-1715.

Convocation brings Saint Mary’s together

Elizabeth Huntley delivered the keynote address last week at our university convocation.

Last Wednesday, I was honored to participate in my first university convocation. The event brought faculty, staff, student leaders, and other Saint Mary’s community members together for a day of connection and conversation and built upon common ground that has been established here. In my address, I also spoke about our next strategic plan, the process for which will be unveiled soon. It is my hope that a renewed vision will emerge from the strategic plan that will guide us as we move forward together, striving to be gracious and provide ongoing hospitality to all whom we encounter, especially in the classroom and on campus. Our plan will focus on what I’m calling, the A’s:

  • Achievement
  • Aesthetics/attractiveness
  • Access
  • Accountability
  • Affordability
  • Affiliation

In addition, I hope the plan will be able to bring into focus, through these A’s, the following: 1) Academics; 2) Technology; 3) Facilities/property, plant and equipment (including the importance of sustainability); 4) Organizational effectiveness; 5) Global reach; and 6) our Catholic, Lasallian heritage especially related to student formation, cultural awareness, professionalism, character education and virtue ethics, as well as athletics.

After my address, we were blessed to be able to listen to the moving testimony of Ms. Elizabeth Huntley, Esq. She shared with us how she overcame significant obstacles early on in her life including being abused. Ms. Huntley’s keynote dovetailed well with the themes outlined above as she inspired us to see the ways in which God works through people and to never forget the power of a simple moment of outreach especially as educators. I appreciated all of the group discussions that took place after lunch and hope you are able to continue to reflect on the important questions that were posed. Thank you to all who helped prepare for this convocation and to all who participated in the day’s events. I look forward to working with you to further build our community as we strive to exhibit virtue and character that will transform our students’ lives. A recording of my remarks and Ms. Huntley’s keynote address is now available in Tegrity: Talks and Presentations.

Alumni serve as Lasallian Volunteers

Chris Lackey ’18, Regina Bettag ’18, Liam Wintroath ’17, Sheyenne Bauer ’18, and Ben Peters ’18 are serving as Lasallian Volunteers.

Five recent Saint Mary’s graduates are serving as Lasallian Volunteers for the 2018-19 school year. Four 2018 graduates are new additions to the program: Regina Bettag, who is volunteering at De La Salle Blackfeet School in Browning, Mont.; Ben Peters, who is volunteering at San Miguel School in Washington, D.C.; Chris Lackey, who is volunteering at LaSalle School in Albany, N.Y.; and Sheyenne Bauer, who is volunteering at De La Salle at Blessed Sacrament in Memphis, Tenn. Liam Wintroath ’17 is beginning his second year at San Miguel School in Chicago, Ill.

These volunteers completed the Kitson Institute at Lewis University this summer, which prepared them for the year ahead by teaching them about the Lasallian charism, cultural diversity, and how to work in a classroom setting. The Lasallian Volunteers program provides up to two years of experience with a job-related focus and offers volunteers opportunities for growth in professionalism, faith, and more. Volunteers live in community with De La Salle Christian Brothers, work to strengthen their commitment to Catholic Social Teaching and issues of justice, and are encouraged to discern their vocation in life while being aware of the ways in which God might be calling them to greater service while deepening their spiritual life.

SGPP introduces Five Elements of Student-Faculty Engagement

In order to enhance the student-faculty relationship, which is key to successful learning, members of the Schools of Graduate and Professional Programs (SGPP) community have created the Five Elements of Student-Faculty Engagement: SGPP On-ground, Blended, and Online. The Five Elements — Timeliness, Responsiveness, Communication, Preparedness, and Community — outline clear expectations and responsibilities for both students and faculty and establishes basic parameters for engagement that will assist in the learning process. Its creation was informed by Twelve Virtues of a Good Teacher (from Van Grieken, 2002 as cited in Seebach & Charron, 2015), a hallmark of the history of Lasallian education; best practices in theories of learning and pedagogy; and Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota’s philosophy of teaching from the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT). The SGPP is planning to use the Five Elements this school year and then have a formal feedback session at the end of next summer to make adjustments and updates.

Planting seeds of service through community garden

Planting seeds of service through community garden

The SMUMN Community Garden at Saint Mary’s has seen bountiful growth in its first year.

There has been the expected growth of corn, potatoes, beans, peas, turnips, carrots, kale, beats, eggplants, tomatoes, onions, basil, hops, squash, beans, and asparagus.

And — the student gardeners are quick to point out — there’s been a steady growth of weeds.

But some of the most important growth has come at a personal level: the increased comradery between student gardeners; the discovery of the meditative quality of communing with the land; the attainment of gardening and cooking skills; and a deep sense of service and fulfillment that comes from feeding the hungry.

Garden organizers are hoping for continued growth in coming seasons — including additional educational opportunities, more collaborations in the community, a hoop house, cooking classes, and more gardeners.

The seed for beginning a community garden was planted by Chris Kendall, former vice president of Student Life, just prior to the demolition of the Ek Family Village in summer of 2017, which made way for the 120-by-80-foot plot.

Andrew Sandoz harvests kale from the community garden.

Dr. Kyle Black, associate professor in the Department of English and World Languages (and gardener extraordinaire), connected with Kendall’s dream before he retired last year with his proposal “Learning the Land Through Labor and Life Connections”, a project he developed through CELT and the Faculty Learning Leadership program in 2016-2017. With the support from the university’s maintenance department (and folks like former executive vice president and chief operating officer John Pyle), their work came together with perfect timing and like-minded hopes for the university.

“The idea is that the garden serves as a learning laboratory for students, staff, and community members,” Dr. Black said. “We’re addressing a need in this community by donating our vegetables to the Winona Food Shelf, but we’re also addressing a need within our own Saint Mary’s community as well to raise awareness of food scarcity and healthy dietary practices. Ideally, the garden could contribute to and improve the offerings currently provided by the cafeteria and get students more involved in the decisions behind what we provide and where it originates.

“Eventually, we’d like to spread the idea that if students need vegetables, in exchange they can lend a hand in the garden to feel like they’ve contributed,” Dr. Black said. “We want to address needs of hunger that exists in our country, on our campus, and in our community, all while learning about vegetables, the land, and about ourselves in the process.”

Dr. Black said the garden exemplifies the “3Ps: project-based, problem-based, and place-based or place-conscious educational opportunities.” “The problem is food scarcity,” he said. “The project is the garden, and, in the process, we have all established a special connection with and awareness of this place we call Saint Mary’s. And in the garden specifically, we’ve developed an intimate relationship with the soil and everything that’s in it.”

As of the end of August, 135 pounds of produce from the community garden was donated to the Winona Area Food Shelf, with several other harvests yet to come.

Annika Blesener ’20, a secondary education-social studies major from North St. Paul and Andrew Sandoz ’20, a business intelligence and data analytics and finance double major from Appleton, Wis., are two garden club members who have worked in the garden all summer and even beyond. They, along with Dr. Black’s honors students, started seeds in their residence hall windows last year.

“My whole window was eggplant trays and some pepper and kale,” Sandoz said. “They started as eggplant seeds in my room and now we’re picking eggplants. That blows my mind. I didn’t think they’d grow that well. My gardening skills aren’t that good. It’s amazing seeing the whole thing grow to fruition.”

Blesener said the activity also taught her about failure. “Some of my seedlings didn’t make it,” she said, making a sad face.

Blesener started the garden club a year and a half ago on campus because she saw the success of the garden planted and cared for by the Christian Brothers. “I wanted to learn more about the restoring powers that nature offers,” she said. “But I also wanted to know more about food and how it gets to our plates.”

Both students learned about companion cropping with corn, beans, and squash. (Corn stalks provide support for the beans and the squash spreads across ground to control weeds.) Blesener also learned about composting.

And they all learned that weeding wasn’t really so bad.

Harvesting vegetables are, from left: Patrick Rosemark, Daniel Velazquez, Angela Soto, Dr. Kyle Black, Andrew Sandoz, and Annika Blesener.

“Dr. Black was always saying how therapeutic it is to weed. I didn’t believe him in the beginning, but it’s kind of nice to come here and weed,” Sandoz said. “It’s very peaceful in the morning.”

Blesener called weeding meditational. “You’re finding peace in yourself through the peace of your surroundings,” she said. “Weeding takes time but it’s totally worth it.”

But the best part of gardening, in their minds, is the harvest and knowing how much their work is helping others.

“It has been very eye opening,” Sandoz said, “When we saw that we had 89 pounds of vegetables on this big scale, we realized that’s a big amount of food. I had no idea how substantial that was.”

“I felt like we really gave back,” Blesner said. “We are living the Lasallian mission. We are serving others.”

Along with harvesting comes eating; both students are equally excited about adding more vegetables to their diets.

“If you grow something on your own, it tastes better than what you buy in store,” Sandoz said, admitting that as a freshman, he consumed Ramen by the economy sized boxes. Now, he’s looking forward to grilling vegetables.

Blesner said just by throwing vegetables in omelets and stir fries, she just feels healthier.

Dr. Black didn’t want to wait to grill his bounty. He pulled vegetables from the garden, brushed off the dirt and offered the students a taste. “I’ve always heard God made dirt, so dirt don’t hurt,” he said with smile.

“With a little bit of work, food can be free,” he stressed to the students.

Other possible plans to expand the garden include an inter-cultural awareness component. “We are working on establishing a relationship with Hmong farmers (through Project FINE) in the area,” Dr. Black said. “With this, we hope to bring in community members with a profound cultural and social background in gardening in order to not only share knowledge of how other folks might grow food, but also how to prepare it and share meals and moments together.”

He also hopes to involve Montessori school children and to invite the university’s education students to use the garden with their student teaching projects. “The earlier we can get them interested, the better,” he said, adding he hopes to someday have a Saint Mary’s booth at the local farmer’s market. By selling produce and donating profits, there’s an opportunity to teach students about social entrepreneurship, he explained.

For example, Dr. Black said, through Hops for Hope they’ll sell the garden hops to local breweries and donate profits to charitable organizations.

“A main goal of the project is to raise awareness at Saint Mary’s of where our food comes from and have more students engaging in this process, with the big hope of having the broader university community mindful of food resourcing,” he said. “Just like our vegetables, this project is growing bigger.”

Look for more details about harvest celebrations and university food weeks this fall. For more information about how to get involved, contact Dr. Black at kblack@smumn.edu.

Photo caption: Annika Blesener’s favorite parts of gardening are harvesting and eating the harvest.

 

Forbes names Saint Mary’s a top college

WINONA, Minn. — Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota has again been recognized by Forbes for its quality education and affordable programs, both in person and online.

Forbes annual “America’s Top Colleges” list ranks Saint Mary’s in the top 100 colleges in the Midwest and in the top 450 in the nation. Only 19 Minnesota colleges were named to this list. Published this month, the full list can be viewed at forbes.com/top-colleges.

In total, 650 colleges are named to the national list. Forbes uses statistics including debt, student experience, graduates’ success, graduates’ academic achievement, and graduation rate to calculate its ratings.

Page Series announces The Cedar Tree Project

Page Series announces The Cedar Tree Project

WINONA, Minn. — The Page Series at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota will present The Cedar Tree Project, an exploration of identity through the lens of Arab and Arab-American artists, from September 2018 to April 2019. The Cedar Tree Project will include performances and exhibitions as well as workshops and community gatherings with visiting artists Leila Awadallah, Fadi BouKaram, and Leyya Tawil.

The Cedar Project, curated by Winona dance and visual artist Sharon Mansur, begins in September with work by Lebanese photographer Fadi BouKaram’s, whose photo-documentary project Lebanon, USA is the result of five months spent on the road during the 2016 United States presidential election, visiting and documenting all the towns called “Lebanon” across America. He is currently undertaking his second United States road trip. In addition to a progressive exhibit of Lebanon, USA — on view at Outpost Winona and at the Page Theatre’s Ben Miller Lobby — BouKaram will visit Winona in late September and early October to participate in community conversations, workshops, and receptions. Events include:

  • Sept. 23: Community meal and conversation with Fadi BouKaram and Sharon Mansur at Outpost
  • Sept. 25: A Page in History: The Cedars of Lebanon at the Winona County History Center
  • Sept. 24 and Oct. 1: A two-part street photography workshop at Winona City Hall
  • Oct. 2: Lebanon, USA artist talk at the Page Theatre
  • Oct. 2: Panel Discussion and Lebanon, USA Opening Reception at the Page Theatre

Additional details and event descriptions are available at pagetheatre.org. Gallery hours for Lebanon, USA at Outpost are Saturday, Sept. 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 15 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Saturday, Sept. 22 from noon to 8 p.m. Lebanon, USA will then be on view Sept. 26 through Oct. 26, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily in the Page Theatre’s Ben Miller Lobby (staffed hours are noon to 6 p.m., weekdays). All Lebanon, USA events are offered to the community free of charge, although registration is required for the street photography workshop.

The Cedar Tree Project will continue Jan. 18, 2019, with “Za’atar,” an evening of performance and dialogue featuring three dynamic, female, Arab-American contemporary artists — Leila Awadallah, Sharon Mansur, and Leyya Tawil — at the Valéncia Arts Center’s Academy Theatre. Each utilizes interdisciplinary and experimental approaches to create evocative dance/performance/visual environments while addressing distinct aspects of Arab culture and identity, drawing from Palestinian, Syrian, and Lebanese heritages. The event will feature solo work by each artist as well as a newly devised collaborative trio.

In March, Mansur will also present a workshop designed to guide community members through an exploration of cultural heritage and personal identity. Drawing from her autobiographical performance work Dreaming Under a Cedar Tree, Mansur will create an interactive process to facilitate community members mapping their own experiences and explore childhood memories and imagery, ancestral countries of origin, and personal identity through creative writing, visual art, and movement. This experiential work will support empathy and understanding of varied backgrounds and experiences among our Winona residents, and create new connections among community members.

The project concludes in April with the Page Series performances of Mansur’s Dreaming Under a Cedar Tree 2.0, which will invite audiences to share art, food, and conversation with a Middle Eastern flavor, and will draw from Mansur’s Lebanese heritage, the complex and fluid nature of cultural identity, and the power of place in our dreams.

For the Page Series, the Cedar Tree Project represents an opportunity to extend the presentation of culturally-specific work beyond the Page Series usual one-night-only performances.

“For more than 30 years, the Page Series has connected Winonans with artists and events that offer a window into traditions they don’t often have the opportunity to experience locally,” said Performance Center Managing Director Theresa Remick. “With the Cedar Tree Project, we will be able to explore how, by involving the local artistic community — in this case with Sharon and her incredible connections and expertise — we can extend these engagements long beyond their performance or exhibit dates and foster a deeper understanding of the artists and work we present.”

“We’re living in a time where there are challenging and complicated questions, misconceptions and sociopolitical concerns regarding the Middle East and Arab Americans,” says Mansur. “As an Arab American artist I’m grateful for the opportunity to add to the conversations by sharing aspects of my Lebanese heritage, my family’s immigrant history, and my personal story through art, food, and dialogue.”

Additional event information and details of The Cedar Tree Project can be found at pagetheatre.org. Tickets for “Za’atar” and Dreaming Under a Cedar Tree 2.0 are $15 each and are on sale now. Tickets may be ordered by calling 507-457-1715 or visiting the Page Theatre Box Office from noon to 6 p.m. on weekdays, or online any time at pagetheatre.org.

About the Artists

Sharon Mansur is a Lebanese-American, Winona-based contemporary dance and visual artist, experimentalist, educator and curator. Sharon’s creative practice and research integrates improvisational techniques, somatic practices, and interdisciplinary collaborative approaches. She has a keen interest in aspects of identity and site responsive art, weaving the visual and visceral, body and space, internal and external landscapes. She is also committed to dance as a transformational and healing catalyst for individuals and communities. Her performance projects and dance films have been presented throughout the United States and abroad. She has recently received support from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and is a 2018 McKnight Dance Fellow. Sharon was also a guest artist at the 2018 International Dance Day Festival Lebanon. www.mansurdance.com

Leila Awadallah is a Palestinian-American dancer, choreographer, film maker and interdisciplinary performance artist based in the Twin Cities. She holds a B.F.A. in Dance and a minor in Arabic Language and Literature from the University of Minnesota. Her creative work unfolds within the intersections of diasporic Arab identity, Palestinian stories, and building a deeper connectivity with ancestry as it lives in the body’s cellular memory. She crafts with intentional response to the ways mainstream media / histories erase, vilify, and distort Arab and Palestinian peoples. Her research in creating Arab Contemporary Dance has recently brought her into living, learning, and performing in Lebanon and Palestine. Leila’s choreography has been presented at the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Rawi Arab Literature Conference (Minneapolis), and BIPOD Dance Festival (Beirut, Lebanon). Leila is a company member of the touring ensemble Ananya Dance Theatre (2013), and a co-creator of Kelvin Wailey dance trio (2016). Leila received a SAGE Award (2016) for her work in film, a Jerome Travel Grant (2018) to study dance in Palestine, and is currently a Springboard 20/20 Fellow (2018 – 2019).

Fadi BouKaram (pictured above) is a Lebanese photographer and member of Observe Collective, an international photography collective focused primarily on the practice of candid street photography. His project Lebanon, USA documents over 40 cities, towns, and villages called Lebanon in the United States and the people and cultures of each. The project received national attention, with features by CNN and National Public Radio. His work has been exhibited in the UK, the U.S., Germany, and Lebanon.

Leyya Mona Tawil is an interdisciplinary artist working with dance, sound, and performance practices. Tawil is a Syrian, Palestinian, American engaged in the world as such. Her articulation of Arab Experimentalism embeds political sub-narratives and cultural confusions into the performance fabric. Tawil has a 23-year record of choreographies and performance scores that have been presented throughout the U.S., Europe and the Arab world. She is a 2018 Saari Residence Fellow (Finland) and an AIRSpace Resident Artist at Abrons Art Center (NYC). Tawil is the director of DANCE ELIXIR and TAC, a venue in Oakland, Calif. www.danceElixirLIVE.org

About the Page Series

Now entering its 32nd annual season, the Page Series connects professional performing artists from around the globe with thousands of Winonans each year. With events at the Joseph Page Theatre on the Winona Campus of Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, as well as at locations across the Winona community, the Page Series offers dance, music, and theatre performances, workshops, classes, and more that inspire, uplift, educate, and invite community members to discover the relevance of the arts in their daily lives.

About Outpost

Outpost is an accessible, inclusive space for creative regional collaborations that features that features exhibits and programming on the everyday living culture of the Winona region. All Outpost events are free and open to everyone.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Page Series community programs are made possible, in part, through a grant from the Xcel Energy Foundation.

Launching the Integrated General Education Program

Our new Integrated General Education Program is launching as new undergraduate students come to Saint Mary’s University this fall. A transitional period will allow the current general education program to run simultaneously to accommodate current students. In discussion and development for several years, the general education program is being revised to reflect current trends in higher education and to address the needs of today’s students. The new program — designed to be meaningful and practical, and rooted in the university’s mission — will be integrated into all four years of a student’s college experience. Its components are organized around five areas of desired student growth: intellectual flexibility and imagination, identity development, community engagement, social responsibility, and search for meaning.

Through the Integrated General Education Program, each student will complete:

  • A themed First-Year Experience that will include a common reading, a first-year seminar in a discipline, three foundational required courses, and co-curricular experiences and arts events;
  • An interdisciplinary minor (or the Lasallian Honors Program);
  • A significant cultural experience, e.g., language study, study abroad, or service learning;
  • A capstone course that will reflect on the student’s minor and result in an interdisciplinary, community-engaged, group project and presentation; and
  • An e-folio that tracks and ultimately provides a permanent and accessible record of the student’s progress through the program.

Thank you to everyone who has worked tirelessly to get this program launched. Your efforts are making a difference in our students’ lives and helping set Saint Mary’s apart.

Father James P. Burns

The Rev. James P. Burns, IVD, Ph.D.
President
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

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