The University of St Thomas, following calls from the Catholic Church to combat climate change, introduced a number of new guidelines, tools, policies and commitments to reduce the university’s carbon footprint in a statement released Nov. 4.
University President Julie Sullivan spoke and answered questions on graduation, future buildings, sports and vaccination plans, and the Land Acknowledgement Committee requested $74,000 for an art piece at the Undergraduate Student Government general council meeting on March 25. University Affairs Editor Scout Mason has the update.
Bishop Mathias Loras, the namesake of Loras Hall on South Campus, was found to have enslaved a woman named Marie Louise for 16 years, President Julie Sullivan wrote in an email to the St. Thomas community Tuesday.
Thirty-six positive COVID-19 cases between Sept. 12-18 were reported by the University of St. Thomas’ Center for Well-Being Monday, a jump from last week’s count of 9.
The long search for a founding dean at the planned College of Health has ended with the hiring of MayKao Y. Hang, chief executive officer of the nonprofit Amherst H. Wilder Foundation.
President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen testified before Congress Wednesday casting Trump as a racist and a con man, the Minnesota House opened a hearing with Democrats pushing for new gun control laws, Walmart has decided to remove its blue-vested “greeters” from nearly 1,000 stores nationwide, and President Sullivan gave her first state of the University Address on Feb. 21. Reporter Tina O’Malley has today’s News in :90.
More than 500 students, faculty and staff sat in the Anderson Student Center atrium for a BESA-organized protest on Oct. 25. Protesters sat in silence for about 20 minutes before five speakers presented.
President Julie Sullivan joins reporter Noura Elmanssy to talk about St. Thomas’ rebranding campaign on In Depth with TommieMedia.
President Julie Sullivan will continue to maintain open office hours for students and faculty on both the Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses this semester.
Family Weekend will include a luncheon with President Julie Sullivan, a PULSE show and more in an attempt to increase attendance.
This is News in :90 for Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014.
Sullivan’s next step is to submit the strategic plan to the Board of Trustees for final approval, and she hopes the plan will be approved this year.
The group of 1,665 marchers contained 1,414 first-year students, 251 transfer students and 11 international students.
St. Thomas is the third private school in the Twin Cities to discuss union representation for adjuncts in recent weeks.
The St. Thomas undergraduate commencement ceremony was held off campus at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
