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Homegrown Startups

Student Entrepreneurs Tackle Real Problems. By Ann Swardlick “The goal of the entrepreneurship course is to give students direct experience with the process of starting a business, using real and highly relevant business challenges,” explained Professor Beth Richardson after class one day in late September. Real and highly relevant is key, because some of these [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:30-04:00November 30th, 2016|Categories: Winter 2016-17|Tags: |

Ties to the Arctic

Arctic Council member Tom Barry urges SJC students to get involved in Arctic research. Photo caption: Tom Barry, Arctic Council member and Executive Secretary for the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna New relationships between businesses and educational institutions in Maine and the Arctic are developing and Saint Joseph’s College is in the mix. When [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:30-04:00November 30th, 2016|Categories: Winter 2016-17|Tags: |

Work With Purpose

Meghan Elmore ’19 embraces her volunteer role at Catherine’s Cupboard. By Marisellia Greenlaw ’18 Photo caption: Meghan Elmore ’19 trains two new volunteers at Catherine’s Cupboard food pantry. On a Wednesday afternoon this fall, I rode with Meghan Elmore ’19 in one of the College’s vans to Catherine’s Cupboard, a food pantry founded in 2008 by Saint [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:30-04:00November 30th, 2016|Categories: Winter 2016-17|Tags: , |

Habit of Giving

Autumn Zubricki ’18, a second-generation Saint Joseph’s College student, plans to be an elementary education teacher. She’s already in the habit of giving back to the College. By Ann Swardlick When you grow up in a Saint Joseph’s household, generosity comes naturally. Autumn Zubricki ’18 credits her parents Brendhan and Jo (Corrao) Zubricki, both class [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:31-04:00November 30th, 2016|Categories: Winter 2016-17|Tags: , , |

Beyond Partisanship

Rethinking Politics as Critically Engaged Citizenship By Mark Hibben, PhD As demonstrated over the last year, US national elections often reinforce feelings of bitterness and division. In fact, it is reasonable that many of us become disillusioned with what is often defined as “politics.” We may even become so disgusted that we commit to a [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:31-04:00November 30th, 2016|Categories: Winter 2016-17|Tags: , , |

Redefining the Fitness Business

Ross Hardaway ’11 redefines personal training at Always Strong Fitness. Photo caption: Ross Hardaway ’11 majored in exercise science at SJC and later started Always Strong Fitness, based in Brighton, MA. By Ann Swardlick “I love my job every day,” says Ross Hardaway ’11. He’s talking about the business he started with two colleagues in [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:31-04:00November 30th, 2016|Categories: Winter 2016-17|Tags: , |

Journey Toward Leadership

How Janet Maguire’s MBA impacted her career and inspired her to give back. By Ann Swardlick Why would a career nurse in a leadership position decide to add the challenges of an online MBA program to her already over-committed work week? Ask Janet Maguire RN, BSN, MBA ’15. A nursing director with over 30 years of experience [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:31-04:00November 30th, 2016|Categories: Winter 2016-17|Tags: , , |

Paying it Forward

Sandy (Mayo) MacDonald’s 35-year commitment to scholarships at SJC. By Ann Swardlick When Sandy (Mayo) MacDonald ’81 showed up to register for classes in fall of 1977, there were two lines: one for nursing students and one for everyone else. “That’s how we did it back then,” laughs MacDonald. “We stood in long lines on [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:31-04:00November 30th, 2016|Categories: Winter 2016-17|Tags: , |

Support SJC by Shopping AmazonSmile

Amazon, the online one-stop shop whose logo literally underscores the potential to buy items from A-Z, is a popular way in which many of our community members meet their shopping needs. If you are an Amazon shopper, now your purchases can help support the College when buyers use smile.amazon.com and select Saint Joseph’s as the nonprofit of [...]

2021-10-07T10:05:36-04:00March 7th, 2016|Categories: Highlights|