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Saint Joseph’s launches education partnership with Cianbro

For decades, Saint Joseph’s College has worked to make education accessible to non-traditional students through its distance education programs. Now, in an innovative partnership with the Maine based construction company Cianbro, the college is granting Cianbro employees academic credit for the company’s own training programs, which can be put toward degree programs at Saint Joseph’s. [...]

2021-10-07T10:09:57-04:00November 30th, 2012|Categories: Fall 2012|Tags: , |

Service Learning, where college and community meet

At Saint Joseph’s College, the community is an extension of the classroom, thanks to innovative courses that incorporate service learning. Service learning gives students a chance to apply what they’ve learned to real-world settings, making them more active participants in their education. In the Mercy spirit of service, the students share their skills at a [...]

2021-10-07T10:09:57-04:00November 30th, 2012|Categories: Fall 2012|Tags: , , |

St. Joe’s means business

Saint Joseph’s College has approved plans to start a college-wide business development initiative that will create and market programs and events for potential clients. When it operated solely within the college’s online division for the past two years, the business development effort organized quarterly workshops and annual symposia, created customized training programs for local businesses, [...]

2021-10-07T10:09:59-04:00August 1st, 2012|Categories: Summer 2012|Tags: , , , |

Riding To The Top

Where horses heal the mind, body and spirit - with help from humans Duke, a chestnut quarter horse, maintains a calm steadiness as children and adults with disabilities mount his back to learn to ride at Riding To The Top Therapeutic Riding Center not far from campus. His trustworthy personality has earned him a long-term [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:04-04:00August 1st, 2011|Categories: Summer 2011|Tags: , , |

Sports management internships land students in good position

The very first ball game Chris Taylor worked during his internship with the minor league Memphis Redbirds left him a bit “shell-shocked.” Trot Nixon stood nearby. Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Bud Selig passed him in the hall. His inaugural day turned out to be the day of a national MLB event to commemorate the [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:11-04:00May 1st, 2010|Categories: Spring 2010|Tags: , , , |

Reflections on a cupboard that’s never empty

Faces of Mercy nourish food pantry started by college and town Sitting at his desk amid bags and boxes filled with macaroni and tuna, not far from the stack of mixed fruit cans near the door, it’s easy to imagine Mike Blais ’09 has a job connected to food. Donations at his Campus Ministry office [...]

Professor’s pioneering research on effects of ocean acidification garners global attention and third science grant

Dr. Mark Green knows the tiniest marine organisms can tell us a lot. As carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have climbed steadily – making the ocean more acidic in the process – he was the first scientist to prove tiny juvenile clams were dying primarily because their shells were dissolving in less alkaline conditions. [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:11-04:00May 1st, 2010|Categories: Spring 2010|Tags: , , , |

New athletics web site, college partnership and service learning program

Service learning where everyone learns Talk about a win-win. With the help of a $2,500 grant from the Fisher Charitable Foundation, education professor Dr. Janice Rey created a new service-learning program at a local, urban school that does many things at once for the benefit of all. Using environmental education curricula, the program promotes science [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:12-04:00November 30th, 2009|Categories: Fall 2009|Tags: , , , |

Tell me a story

Pajamas welcome as education majors conduct bedtime story hour for kids Clad in robes and slippers, youngsters from 2 years old to 10 years old crowd around the couches in the student lounge of Alfond Center. Equipped with blankets and teddy bears, the children settle in for the first story of the night, "Slippers Goes [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:12-04:00November 30th, 2009|Categories: Fall 2009|Tags: , , , |

Companies get youthful advice. Students taste corporate world.

Thanks to students majoring in human resource management, a local law firm now uses Facebook, an insurance company has the ability to "tweet," and a nearby hospital knows what it will take to retain its new crop of Generation Y and Z employees. The major is a mere two years old, but under the tutelage of [...]

2021-10-07T10:10:13-04:00November 30th, 2009|Categories: Fall 2009|Tags: , , , , , |