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A Philosophy Primer
Get PDFThis philosophy primer serves as an introduction to the general pursuit of philosophy and the practice of sound reasoning. The primer identifies and explains seven important guiding ideals for conducting any intellectual inquiry, along with highlighting eight “good moves” to cultivate and eighteen “bad moves” to avoid
Lost Saint John’s, Part 4: First Chapel and the Exhibition Hall
Get PDFMany features of the Saint John\u27s campus have come and gone over the years. The Lost Saint John\u27s series explores them, more or less chronologically.
Part 4 relates the history of the first Chapel across Lake Sagatagan, and the Exhibition Hall
Indigenous Rights in Chile: 30 Years Negotiating What Is, What Was, What Could Be
No full textDr. Kelly Bauer specializes in identity and development politics in Latin America. Her research explores how states govern national identity as global trends challenge understandings of state sovereignty; recent work explored Indigenous rights and irregular migration. Her first book, Negotiating Autonomy: Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy (2021), explored inconsistencies in how Chilean state officials navigated extending elite and neoliberal governance and citizenship through Indigenous land policy. Other work appears in the Journal of Agrarian Change, NACLA, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Canadian Journal of Development Studies /Revue canadienne d’études du développement. Her research has been externally funded by the U.S. Fulbright Program, Inter-American Foundation’s Grassroots Development Fellowship, and APSA Centennial Center.
Her writing on higher education politics, political science pedagogy, and teaching careers recently appeared in the Journal of Political Science Education, New Political Science, Iberoamericana, Political Science Educator, and Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond.
Dr. Bauer earned a BA from Carthage College and PhD from George Washington University. Before joining GWU, she was an associate professor and chair of the political science department at Nebraska Wesleyan University, where her work was recognized with the Forum Committee’s Faculty Scholarship Award Presentation Award, Faculty Scholar Award, and the Margaret J. Prouty Faculty Teaching Award. She is a member of the Red De Politólogas – #NoSinMujeres, and has served on Fulbright National Selection Committees
Seeing eye to eye? Comparing faculty and student perceptions of biomolecular visualization assessments
Get PDFWhile visual literacy has been identified as a foundational skill in life science education, there are many challenges in teaching and assessing biomolecular visualization skills. Among these are the lack of consensus about what constitutes competence and limited understanding of student and instructor perceptions of visual literacy tasks. In this study, we administered a set of biomolecular visualization assessments, developed as part of the BioMolViz project, to both students and instructors at multiple institutions and compared their perceptions of task difficulty. We then analyzed our findings using a mixed-methods approach. Quantitative analysis was used to answer the following research questions: (1) Which assessment items exhibit statistically significant disparities or agreements in perceptions of difficulty between instructors and students? (2) Do these perceptions persist when controlling for race/ethnicity and gender? and (3) How does student perception of difficulty relate to performance? Qualitative analysis of open-ended comments was used to identify predominant themes related to visual problem solving. The results show that perceptions of difficulty significantly differ between students and instructors and that students’ performance is a significant predictor of their perception of difficulty. Overall, this study underscores the need to incorporate deliberate instruction in visualization into undergraduate life science curricula to improve student ability in this area. Accordingly, we offer recommendations to promote visual literacy skills in the classroom
Lunch and Learn: Benedictine Spirituality in and for Digital Culture
No full textDaniella Zsupan-Jerome, Ph.D. is Director of Ministerial Formation and Field Education at Saint John\u27s University School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville, Minnesota. Her research explores the intersection of social communication, digital culture, and pastoral theology. She has served as a consultant to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops\u27 Committee on Communications, as an educational consultant to the Catholic Media Association, and as a tutor for the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication Faith Communication in a Digital Age project
An Evening of Art and Activism with Constanza Carballo
No full textMaria Constanza Carballo is best known for turning acrylic paintings as well as murals into voice pieces that highlight the marginalized. Inspired by her own bicultural and bilingual upbringing as an immigrant in the south Minneapolis Philips community, Maria Constanza began painting murals at the age of 13 and has since been recognized as a statement maker. Her art, a form of community activism, has travelled through Latin America, Europe, and throughout the U.S. Here in Minnesota, she has brought fellow women artists together internationally and locally through large scale community events to celebrate International Women’s Day and specifically bringing attention to the inequalities women face in all sectors of society including economic, political, workforce, healthcare, and education. Her most recent physical art series; the Monarchildren, gives specific importance to the ongoing crisis at the border, where migrant families are separated, and children are in cages. The series depicts real images of children facing these tragedies as monarchs, while telling the story of actual monarchs who travel every year during their famous migration. The idea is simple yet forgotten; in(migración) es natural; im(migration) is natural
Benedicta Riepp: An Analysis of Structural Elements in Her Life
Get PDFMother Benedicta Riepp struggled at a great personal cost for autonomy on behalf of North American Benedictine women. Her efforts ultimately led to the reshaping of the Benedictine tradition for women in the United States. This paper analyzes some of the most significant structural elements in Mother Benedicta’s life
The Art of Silence in Waiting
Get PDFThis piece reflects on what can happen when we decide not to worry and elect to learn the art of remaining silent. Like any art, it requires time to learn how to skillfully apply it in our lives. This paper was written as a homily for the Synoptic Gospels class at the Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary