Over 40 majors in undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs.
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A rich tradition in Catholic education for more than a hundred years.
Over 40 majors in undergraduate, graduate, and professional education programs
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Saint Joe’s is the place where student life and community life come together.
A rich tradition in Catholic education for more than a hundred years.
When Emily Gerardo, a nurse with experience in long-term care and emergency rooms, heard that Ruth Smillie, a nurse and nursing professor, needed a kidney, the decision to offer Smillie one of her own didn’t take long. “Ruth is a great person with a passion for teaching and the great outdoors. I had a lot [...]
Educating the entire College community on healthy living creates opportunities for the futures of the staff, faculty and, of course, the students. By Diane Atwood ’77 In 2008, Saint Joseph’s College took the first steps toward a more healthy and overall active campus community. From an office in the Harold Alfond Center, Maureen LaSalle, now [...]
In an effort to improve the health of the entire Saint Joseph’s community, the College went tobacco-free on August 19. The campus-wide policy is in effect for students, staff, faculty, visitors and affiliates. This will protect smokers and non-smokers alike, and especially those who have respiratory health concerns. And to help lead the charge for [...]
This spring, several new majors were approved by the College to begin this fall: Health & Wellness Promotion, Biochemistry, Writing & Publishing. While they cover different fields of study, each is centered on helping students become career-minded and market savvy upon graduation. A unique aspect of these new programs, though, is just how current and [...]
Phil DuBois is an award-winning long-term care administrator, and his years of experience in the field illustrate his credentials. But it was a tragic night in 2007 that gave him the firsthand experience of being an LTC patient that makes him the emphatic leader that he is today. Professionally, Phil DuBois had a noteworthy first [...]
Since 1988, Nancy Weingarten ’96 has worked as an administrator for Maine Dartmouth Family Medical Residency, a group of five medical practices in Augusta that focus on training Maine’s future physicians while supplying much-needed services to underserved local residents. As director of administrative management, “I handle numerous responsibilities – business and financial analyses, some strategic [...]
Exercise science majors can tout a major addition to their academic toolkit with the recent opening of the Human Performance Laboratory in the Alfond Center. According to faculty member Tom Dann, this new performance lab will give students a great hands-on experience with their fitness clients, who initially will be faculty, staff, students and student athletes [...]
In third grade, Migdalia (Mickie) Santiago-White ’01 told her teacher that she wanted to be an obstetrician when she grew up. Going to medical school wasn’t feasible in a family with six children, but that didn’t stop the Cleveland, Ohio, native from setting other lofty goals and meeting them. While working full and part time [...]
Brenda Rice ’99/’08, the program manager for Saint Joseph’s online radiologic science administration degree, keeps very busy these days. The former head of the School of Radiology at Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine, Rice spends much of her time developing educational agreements with radiology schools faced with a new mandate requiring their graduates to have an [...]
When Saint Joseph’s College was founded in 1912, streetcars ran along Stevens Avenue near the Sisters of Mercy convent in Portland where the college opened its doors. Horse-drawn carriages also served as common transport because mass production of automobiles had yet to take off. As a country, the United States practiced isolationism, World War I [...]
