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Panel Discussion
No full textWhat structures, resources and people do we need in place to ensure the success of all students we serve in our sector? How do we ensure we are attentive to not only the transactional and professional crafting of our students, but that we are equally engaged in the transformational work demanded of us as we engage with, and are engaged by, our students
Panel Discussion
No full textHow do we address the current narrative regarding the broken economic model in higher education? What strategies can make our institutions both more accessible and sustainable? How do we lead toward financial sustainability in the face of the current narrative
Head of the Lakes Interview with Anthony Bukoski
No full textIt took 29 tries for Anthony Bukoski to have his first publication accepted, but it came with a price.
“When it was accepted on the 29th try, the journal’s editor sent him a $5 check with a note asking the author to please remit the money as payment for a subscription,” wrote Nick Hayes, the University Chair in Critical Thinking at Saint John’s University, in the forward to Bukoski’s latest book, “Head of the Lakes.”
Bukoski, a professor emeritus of English at the University of Wisconsin-Superior and the author of six books, will be interviewed by James Rogers, director of the Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas, at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, at Saint John’s Pottery.
The event, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the University Chair in Critical Thinking and Saint John’s Pottery.
“Head of Lakes” (Nodin Press, 2018) is comprised of short stories selected from the 51 stories in Bukoski’s previous four books – “Children of Strangers (Southern Methodist University Press, 1993), “Polanise” (SMU, 1999), “Time Between Trains” (SMU, 2003) and “North of the Port” (SMU, 2008). He has also written “Twelve Below Zero” (Holy Cow! Press, 2008).
A native of Superior who grew up in the city’s East End, Bukoski has cast many – but not all – of his stories in the Twin Ports city. The East End was largely an area of Polish immigrants, with an ethnic mix of Swedes, Finns, Native Americans and other.
Never mind, Hayes wrote. “I’ve claimed it for Poland,” Bukoski said.
“Bukoski has done for Superior’s East End what Raymond Carver did for the down-and-out of the Pacific Northwest or Pete Hamill did when annexing New York for the Irish. He’s brought back to life Superior’s Polish American community from its boom days in the post-World War II era to its decline and near disappearance in recent times,” Hayes wrote.
“Few writers are as masterful as Bukoski in portraying the power of place, for better or worse, in our lives,” wrote Minneapolis Star Tribune writer Pamela Miller in her review of “Head of the Lakes.”
Bukoski was one of 14 individuals inducted into the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters Fellow earlier this year. He has been presented the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association three times, and has won the Anne Powers Book-length Fiction Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers three times.
In 2005, the Robert E. Gard Wisconsin Idea Foundation presented Bukoski for “the excellence with which (his) stories celebrate his grass roots, the Polish East End of Superior, Wisconsin, thus bringing this community to life in literature.”
The Polish American Historical Association and the Polish Institute of Houston has also honored Bukoski.
Bukoski’s books have been reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist (including a starred review of “Time Between Trains”), Kirkus Reviews and the Dallas Morning News. The New York Times Book Review has called him “a sure-handed, lyrical, writer.
Fortune 500 CEO Profiles
Get PDFThis research project analyzes data about the Fortune 500 CEOs and presents differences among the male and female CEOs
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No full textThe Dangers of Religious Nationalism: Lessons for the U.S. from Bosnia by Noreen Herzfeld
“The People of Aram Will Go into Exile”: Practical and Theological Dilemmas of Middle Eastern Churches since the Beginning of the Syrian War by Wilbert van Saan
Registers of Illuminated Villages
No full textTarfia Faizullah’s highly anticipated second collection, Registers of Illuminated Villages, extends and transforms her powerful accounts of violence, war, and loss into poems of many forms and voices—elegies, outcries, self-portraits, and larger-scale confrontations with discrimination, family, and memory. One poem steps down the page like a Slinky; another poem responds to makeup homework completed in the summer of a childhood accident; other poems punctuate the collection with dark meditations on dissociation, discipline, defiance, and destiny; and the near-title poem, “Register of Eliminated Villages,” suggests illuminated texts, one a Qur’an in which the speaker’s name might be found, and the other a register of 397 villages destroyed in northern Iraq. Faizullah, the author of the award-winning collection Seam, is an essential poet, whose work only grows more urgent, beautiful, and—even in its unsparing brutality—full of love.
Tarfia Faizullah is the author of Seam, winner of a VIDA Award and a Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. She teaches at the University of Michigan and lives in Detroit
Informed and Formed by Theological Education
Get PDFThis essay explores the author’s experiences of both the contributions and the limits of the varied ways in which the meaning and purpose of theological education have been understood: as a habitus, as liberating praxis, as faith seeking understanding, as the clerical paradigm, as scholarship for the church, as spiritual practice, and as practical knowing. With appreciation for each, she concludes that theological education is a disciplined way of life in search of wisdom for our times
