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CAS graduation rates, student credit hours reach 'historical' highs

CAS graduation rates, student credit hours reach ‘historical’ highs

As university funding becomes tied to graduation rates, the College of Arts and Sciences’ (CAS) graduation rates have reached historical highs, according to Dean Aldemaro Romero.
CAS graduation rates and student credit hours have reached historical highs, according to CAS Dean Aldemaro Romero. Graphic courtesy of Romero
The 2013 graduation numbers for undergraduates and graduates reached 921 […]

CAS Colloquium: Political science students present post-Civil Rights movement research

CAS Colloquium: Political science students present post-Civil Rights movement research

Political science students explored various aspects of post-Civil Rights movements in the College of Arts and Sciences Colloquium last week.
Sophomore political science major Rebekah Bogacz discusses the Congressional Black Caucus during the CAS Colloquium last week. Bogacz was one of political science professor Anne Flaherty's students who presented as part of Flaherty's African American Politics […]

Center for Spirituality and Sustainability honors Retzlaff's sustainability efforts

Center for Spirituality and Sustainability honors Retzlaff’s sustainability efforts

Bill Retzlaff, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, received the Sustainability Leadership Award from the Center for Spirituality and Sustainability last week, but said he “was not trying to achieve that goal.”
“I think the people that really earned the award are my students, my faculty colleagues and my business collaborators,” Retzlaff said. […]

ROTC cadet receives George C. Marshall Award

ROTC cadet receives George C. Marshall Award

Senior political science major Sarah Ostrowski will attend a national conference with military leaders, the Department of Defense and fellow cadets as a recipient of the George C. Marshall Award.
Senior political science major Sarah Ostrowski was selected to receive the George C. Marshall Award, which honors the best cadets from ROTC programs around the country. […]

STELLAR Student profile: Mariah Huelsmann

STELLAR Student profile: Mariah Huelsmann

From ceramic pigs and nutcrackers to antique China dolls, freshman anthropology major Mariah Huelsmann has always been interested in collecting objects, which she considers a logical beginning for her interest in anthropology.
Freshman anthropology major Mariah Huelsmann was one of 10 students selected to receive the College of Arts and Science's STELLAR Student award. The award […]

37th Fritz Marti Lecture features Yale philosophy professor

37th Fritz Marti Lecture features Yale philosophy professor

Propaganda is a “dangerous, pejorative function,” according to Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley.
Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley lectured about propaganda and liberal democracies last week for the 37th Fritz Marti lecture. The Fritz Marti Lecture series has occurred since 1976. Photo by Kari Williams
Stanley presented his talk, “Language as a Mechanism of Control,” last week […]

American Muslim women visit Islamic politics course for panel discussion

American Muslim women visit Islamic politics course for panel discussion

American Muslim women will discuss cultural stereotypes related to their religion and way of life this week as part of an Islamic politics course.
History professor Steve Tamari and philosophy professor Saba Fatima are co-teaching the course, for which the panel discussion will take place at 9:30 a.m., Thursday, in Founders Hall 0111.
Tamari’s purpose for holding […]

'Feminist Awakenings' exhibit reveals realizations of feminism, gender roles

‘Feminist Awakenings’ exhibit reveals realizations of feminism, gender roles

Wonder Woman, Tampax and a pink My Little People van.
The Women's Studies program collaborated with Lovejoy Library to create "Feminist Awakenings: Artifacts of Impact," an exhibit featuring 20 pieces that symbolize a first realization of feminism and gender roles. Students, staff and faculty contributed to the exhibit, which will be on display through the end […]

Woodrow Wilson Foundation awards Harris Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship

Woodrow Wilson Foundation awards Harris Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship

History professor Jessica Harris will bring awareness to racial inequality movements in the western U.S. due to receiving the Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Harris received the award, for which she will take a one-year sabbatical beginning in the fall, to turn her dissertation on the activism of black […]

CAS students participate in Model Illinois Government

CAS students participate in Model Illinois Government

Four students represented SIUE in its first showing at Model Illinois Government earlier this month where college students from across the state debated legislation.
College of Arts and Science students Logan Creen, Laura Grace, Kendra Weinhoffer and Alex Lovett attended Model Illinois Government in SIUE's first showing. Photo courtesy of Denise DeGarmo
Junior political science major Kendra […]

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