St. Thomas junior Nick Hiniker hopes to bring cultural acceptance and appreciation of Israel to campus through a new student group called Students Supporting Israel.
Students supporting Israel form new club
St. Paul to ease recycling process for residents
From Nov. 28 to Jan. 16, the city of St. Paul will work with Eureka Recycling to replace curbside bins with single-sort, 64-gallon recycling carts. The carts will have wheels and a lid, allowing residents to transport their recycling with greater ease. “It’s a process that (St. Paul has) been going through for several years …
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St. Thomas raises bar for first-year retention goal
In 2010, the average first-year retention rate for colleges in Minnesota was 77.8 percent, according to The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems.
Flexible Pathways initiative behind two-year college
On Thursday, Nov. 17 the St. Thomas Board of Trustees voted in favor of establishing St. Thomas’ first two-year college on its Minneapolis campus.
Dakota 38 film screening traces journey of Native American leader
The Diversity Activities Board at the University of St. Thomas presented a film screening Tuesday, November 8 of Dakota 38, a documentary that traced the journey of Native American spiritual leader and Vietnam War veteran Jim Miller.
Sports in :60 – Nov. 2, 2016
This is Sports in :60 for Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016.
The search for a new dean is underway
After seven years as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas, Terence Langan will be stepping down.
News in :90 – Oct. 17, 2016
This is News in :90 for Monday, Oct. 17, 2016.
Sports in :60 – Oct. 4, 2016
This is Sports in :60 for Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016.
Business counseling mergers with academic advising
This year, academic counseling will be a one-stop shop for St. Thomas business majors.
Institute creates brave space, starts workshop series
This summer, Ann Johnson, director of the St. Thomas Center for Faculty Development sat down with about a dozen faculty members for lunch and took “food for thought” to a whole new level.
Rebranded orientation in full swing
On July 11, St. Thomas welcomed the next generation of Tommies by kicking off the Orientation and Registration program for first-year students. Over the next couple of months, around 1,350 freshmen will go through O&R with about 150 students attending each of the ten sessions — and that’s not including transfer and international students.
Summer film students present movies
It can be nerve-wracking to do anything the first time. Like writing, directing, and producing your first movie. But it can be even more terrifying to show your first film to an audience – for the first time.
Students travel to Jerusalem, present research on poet Gerard Hopkins
After extensively studying Hopkins through a class last spring, the four students presented papers they had written about Hopkins’ poems at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Society of Jesus Conference in May in Jerusalem.