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Professor Mishra awarded for mentoring role, global perspectives, and high classroom standards

Professor Mishra awarded for mentoring role, global perspectives, and high classroom standards

Mass communications professor Suman Mishra, who has taught at SIUE since 2009, has received the 2014-2015 Teaching Distinction Award.

Mass communications professor Suman Mishra has been recognized by the university with the 2014-2015 Teaching Distinction Award. Photo courtesy of mass communications department.

Mishra said she feels greatly honored to be recognized by her students and peers.
The committee […]

Apr 12, 2015 | 0 comments | View Post
Jazz education through Regional Essentially Ellington festival brings out best in students

Jazz education through Regional Essentially Ellington festival brings out best in students

A day’s worth of learning jazz opened the eyes of many students to new techniques, ideas and abilities.

Essentially Ellington performances capped off a day of clinics, master classes and rehearsals at SIUE for high schools. Photo provided by Maegan McHugh.

Rick Haydon, SIUE’s director of jazz studies, said he thought the Essentially Ellington festival was an […]

Apr 12, 2015 | 0 comments | View Post
Glennon shares expertise on U.S. water sustainability and policy issues to SIUE audience

Glennon shares expertise on U.S. water sustainability and policy issues to SIUE audience

According to author Robert Glennon on recent water shortages, “Sometimes we humans have an infinite capacity to deny reality.”
Glennon’s knowledge of water sustainability prompted many to approach him afterward with more questions and followup. Photo by Theresa San Luis.
Arts & Issues and the Greater St. Louis Humanities Festival presented Glennon, who wrote “Unquenchable: America’s Water […]

Apr 06, 2015 | 0 comments | View Post
Foster presents paper on educational reform at AEFP

Foster presents paper on educational reform at AEFP

There is a lot of concern among policymakers, scholars and ordinary citizens about the quality of education in the U.S., particularly among disadvantaged populations, according to John Foster, professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy Analysis (PAPA) at SIUE.
MPA professor John Foster has spent years studying educational reform among underprivileged states such as […]

Apr 06, 2015 | 0 comments | View Post
MUC Bookstore presentation to recognize fallen African-American heroes from Civil War

MUC Bookstore presentation to recognize fallen African-American heroes from Civil War

Sarah Cato, vice president of the St. Louis African American History and Genealogy Society, will speak at the MUC Bookstore about African American soldiers’ pivotal role in the Civil War.
Descendent George Abington stands next to a memorial grave of a Civil War veteran with a Presidential Citation signed by President Obama. Photo courtesy of Cato.
Her […]

Mar 30, 2015 | 0 comments | View Post
SIUE ROTC, CAS programs team up to combat rape culture through panel discussion

SIUE ROTC, CAS programs team up to combat rape culture through panel discussion

Army Lt. Col. David Motes perceives the rape culture within the U.S. problematic, and he, SIUE’s ROTC and CAS programs will address an audience with new approaches to combat sexual assault.
Army Lt. Col. David Motes is organizing a panel discussion,"Sexual Assault in the Military: A 2015 Perspective" which will take place next Monday. Photo courtesy […]

Mar 30, 2015 | 0 comments | View Post
Finkelstein focuses in on broad significance of employment relations

Finkelstein focuses in on broad significance of employment relations

Marv Finkelstein, sociology professor, is interested in ways the field can be applied to create change and solve problems—specifically in employment relations.
“At the workplace exists the employment organization as a whole and my main emphasis is on labor management relations,” Finkelstein said.  “It is important that when labor and management work together cooperatively they are […]

Mar 30, 2015 | 0 comments | View Post
SIUE, St. Louis Jazz Club and Essentially Ellington to elevate jazz education for high schools

SIUE, St. Louis Jazz Club and Essentially Ellington to elevate jazz education for high schools

The Essentially Ellington Regional High School Jazz Band Festival is a day-long jazz festival that will fill Dunham Hall with world-renowned clinicians who will provide 10 high school bands with master classes.
Pictured above are performers for the St. Louis Jazz Club. Photo courtesy of Swagler.
The event, co-produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center and the jazz studies […]

Mar 23, 2015 | 0 comments | View Post
Trio unites to represent SIUE at Midwest Dance Festival

Trio unites to represent SIUE at Midwest Dance Festival

Attending the Midwest Dance Festival was beyond leaps and bounds in the studios for theater and dance professor Kristin Best-Kinscherff and her three students.
Pictured above are two of three dance students, Brianna Biffignani (left) and Amber Hoene (right) of theater and dance professor Kristen Best-Kinscherff (center) who attended the Midwest Dance Festival. The two and […]

Mar 23, 2015 | 0 comments | View Post
38th Annual Art Auction to take center stage on campus

38th Annual Art Auction to take center stage on campus

An intensified crowd of auction participants will bid on original artworks donated to benefit SIUE’s Art & Design department.
This painting by Art & Design professor John DenHouter is an example of a donated piece for the 38th Annual ART AUCTION. Image courtesy of Pam Decoteau. Th event takes place March 19th at 6 p.m. in […]

Mar 16, 2015 | 0 comments | View Post
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