Mount Saint Mary College

connection for you coming here? You were in New Paltz area first were you not? JS: I am trying to think I know what the connection was. I took courses and Suny New Paltz after I had graduated from Mount Saint Mary when I was teaching when I was a teacher. If you had a student teacher would…

When I interviewed with Mount Holyoke College, the Associate Director of the Frances Perkins Scholar program, Nichole Reynolds, shared with me, “Attending this school can be a transformative experience if you allow it to be.” The words that she spoke were the guiding force behind the ways in which I approached my junior year. The 2016-2017 school year has been the most transformative year of my academic life thus far. Indeed, I stepped out of my cocoon and forced myself to stretch; no matter how…

these jobs are that they lack stability, security, and they do not pay very well. A woman who does not work in this society is seen as a very lazy person even if their number one priority is to take care of their children. Sometimes people don’t have the education needed to have a great paying job. They lacked the “skills” that are needed for a high-end job. Discrimination still plays a huge role on this issue today. Women can be paid a lot less than a man and are not given the same benefits…

On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama passed an executive order, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), that helped to make it more possible for undocumented students to attend college. Since DACA has been passed, administration at colleges and universities have had differing approaches on how to support, or not, undocumented students attending their institution. However, there are still holes in the support for undocumented students in pursuing higher education. The purpose of this…

She graduated from Worcester’s Classical High School and enrolled in Mount Holyoke College to study chemistry and physics. In her senior year at she took a course on American economic history. This class impacted her life and her decision to do social work. Perkins learned of the poor working conditions women and children had in factories and wanted to make a change. She went on to get her masters in political science from Columbia University. Perkins received a teaching job in Chicago and this…

were given the most recognition. However, there was no church in the original plan for the Academic Village. This may have been because Jefferson did not want to give students the ability to turn to the church as an excuse for not learning and searching for a logical answer. During this time, people would blame or praise God and religion when they were unsure of why something was happening. Jefferson, on the other hand, did not approach the world this way. He demonstrated his…

The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods are a group of loving and caring ladies who try to take care of their community when in need. They have been involved in several outreach programs within their community. A few of the community involvements they have been involved with are helping people who live in poverty, have put together a food pantries and have set up an Anti-Racism group. The sisters furthermore, set out the missions put in place by Saint Mother Theodore Guerin. The…

confusion. I feel that I am now stuck in the sixth stage and I am slowing trying to overcome this stage for I can move on to the next stage/next chapter in my life. Some of the values that I believe that I will carry with my into the next chapter of my life are my love for others, my respect for myself and others, my honesty, my courage to take risks, and my care for others and myself. I would say that two groups and organizations that helped me get to where I am today would be College…

There are specifically two different types of teaching in the higher education spectrum; teaching towards your career solely and a teaching to allow a broad scope of study would be towards teaching to realize a different possibility than traditional learning more towards your dreams. The approach of the career of instruction is going to school specifically for your majors, in an example: UCLA , USC , SDSU , etc. Well, a job of your dreams is more for broadening your horizon and having a closer…

Ignatius of Loyola In 1491- St. Ignatius Loyola was born into minor nobility and he was the youngest of 13 children. He loved the idea of courtly love and knighthood In 1517- Ignatius became a knight in the service of another relative which was Antonio Manrique de Lara. He was a duke of Nájera. Knowing he was interested in courtly love he helped him employe in a military undertakings and put him on a diplomatic mission. In May 1521- He was wounded by a cannonball in battle against the…