Pandemic-proof your career search
Join us for these four webinars to help you land a job during this pandemic. You’ll get data, tips, strategies, and resources to help you polish your resume and master the video interview.
Harvard Business Review: ‘3 tips to avoid WFH burnout’
The sudden transition to remote work amid the COVID-19 pandemic has brought many challenges. But with no clear deadline for the current situation in sight, employers should fear a different long-term risk: employee burnout. Harvard Business Review outlines what this risk could mean and shares tips to combat work from home burnout.
Newsletter summer schedule
Beginning in June, CommUNITY will be published bi-monthly on Thursdays. The first issue will be published on June 11 with issues alternating weeks after that.
Newsletter summer schedule
Beginning in June, CommUNITY will be published bi-monthly on Thursdays. The first issue will be published on June 4 with issues alternating weeks after that.
Spiritual offering
Saint Mary’s Campus Ministry continues to share spiritual offerings to provide much-needed perspective and a focus on faith in this time of uncertainty. “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I...

‘We can have a better life’: Public health alumnus recalls own American journey, works in fight against COVID-19
Okash Haybe ’19 arrived in the U.S. as a wide-eyed 18-year-old. Now, 15 years later, he is working among his Somali community members as a case investigator in the fight against COVID-19.
Eden Wales Freedman, Ph.D., named vice provost for Faculties and Academic Affairs
Eden Wales Freedman, Ph.D., will be the next vice provost for Faculties and Academic Affairs, beginning Monday, July 13. Dr. Wales Freedman, a published scholar, comes to us from Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she is a tenured associate professor and serves as director of Diversity Studies and chair of the Department of Communication, Literature, and the Arts.
Meet Dr. Fant, Master of Social Work assistant professor
Maima Fant, DSW, joined Saint Mary’s University as an assistant professor in the Master of Social Work program in February.

FGI Scholar spotlight: Recent graduate discovers love of language
The academic journey of Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota student Carla Guillen ’20 has been full of letters and documents, especially since her sophomore year when she began translating items from English to Spanish. The letter that will always stand out to her the most, though, was the one announcing her acceptance into the First Generation Initiative (FGI).
Fall semester planning update
As the spring semester ends for our graduate and undergraduate students, we now look to fall 2020. To this end, the university is focusing its attention on preparing for the return of students in the fall.