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Approximately 400 students packed Hagan Arena for the mens basketball home opener. PHOTOS: MITCHELL SHIELDS 22/THE HAWK

‘Blackout’ at men’s basketball home opener promotes inclusion and diversity

Alex Hargrave November 6, 2019

Just over 24 hours after approximately 1,800 members of the university community filled Michael J. Hagan ’85 Arena for a University Forum on diversity, inclusion and equity, St. Joe’s students donned...

Mary Sheehan has been involved with St. Joe’s basketball from a young age. PHOTO: LUKE MALANGA ’20/THE HAWK

Mary Sheehan carries on St. Joe’s family tradition

Alex Hargrave November 5, 2019

The Sheehan family has been St. Joe’s basketball season ticket holders since 1990, making a home for themselves in section 204, row 2, seats 1-2. Once junior women’s basketball guard Mary Sheehan was...

St. Joe’s cleaners marched through campus in an effort to gather support during ongoing contract negotiations. PHOTO: LUKE MALANGA ’20/THE HAWK

Workers reach tentative agreement over wage increases

Alex Hargrave October 22, 2019

Este artículo es disponible en español aquí. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents St. Joe’s cleaners, has reached a tentative agreement with the cleaning and maintenance company...

Miembros del equipo de mantenimiento de St. Joes marcharon por el campus para reclutar partidarios a su
causa mientras intentan negociar mejores condiciones contractuales.
PHOTO: LUKE MALANGA ’20/THE HAWK

Equipo de mantenimiento llega a un acuerdo tentativo en cuanto a aumento en salario

Alex Hargrave October 22, 2019

This article was translated by Carolina González '20. La Service Employees International Union (SEIU por sus siglas en inglés), la cual representa al equipo de mantenimiento de Saint Joseph’s, ha...

Prospective parents and students listen to Maureen Mathis, director of undergraduate admissions, speak at the spring 2019
open house. PHOTO: Mitchell Shields 22

St. Joe’s declining enrollment reflects national trends

Alex Hargrave October 8, 2019

St. Joe’s failed to meet its target enrollment of 1,150 first-year students this year, which reflects a growing nationwide trend of decreasing enrollment in colleges and universities. The class of...

History of diversity officials on campus since 2016. GRAPHIC: Luke Malanga 20

Search continues for new head of diversity

Alex Hargrave September 24, 2019

St. Joe’s is renewing the search for a chief inclusion and diversity officer—now changed to an associate provost for diversity, equity and inclusion—after the search last semester did not result...

Educator Zanele Nsindane displays her students art. PHOTO: Sarah Harwick 21

Exhibition exposes young people from under-resourced schools to African art

Alex Hargrave August 1, 2019

Durban, South Africa -- For the students of Zanele Nsindane, an educator and head of the art department at Phakathi Secondary School in the township of Klaarwater, art offers an escape.  Some students...

Mutton is the best selling bunny chow filling at Bedford Bunny, according to owner Shamla Pather. PHOTO: Ana Faguy 19

Bunny chow restaurants are hopping in South Africa

Alex Hargrave July 30, 2019

South Africa --  Shamla Pather stirred a large pot of mutton curry in the kitchen of her restaurant in Lenasia South, an apartheid-era Indian settlement about 20 miles southwest of Johannesburg. Three...

At the Old Parks Soccer Club in Randburg, South Africa, Head Coach Jayson Francis talks to players on the clubs all-female team before an evening practice.  PHOTO: Carly Calhoun 21

World Cup appearance inspires female soccer players in South Africa

Alex Hargrave July 16, 2019

Randburg, South Africa — While soccer is one of the most popular sports in South Africa, for female players, it is an activity in which gender-based discrimination poses considerable challenges.  The...

The Morris family’s art gallery showcases local artists and provides programs for local youth. PHOTOS: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

‘A beacon of light’

Alex Hargrave April 30, 2019

Morris family’s gallery brings art to West Philadelphia Just over six years ago, Milan Morris ’19 and her family brought the arts to West Philadelphia when they established Urban Art Gallery, located...

Black Awareness Society photographed in the 1971 Greatonian yearbook. Mike Bantom is pictured in the second row,third from the left. PHOTO COURTESY OF SJU ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Affinity groups essential to college experience

Alex Hargrave April 17, 2019

Black students attending St. Joe’s in the early 1970s created a student group called the Black Awareness Society (BAS), partly as a response to the growing civil rights movement. Mike Bantom ’73 was...

Wilson’s work was featured in the junior art show on April 5. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Anissa Wilson ’20 on curating and creating art

Alex Hargrave April 9, 2019

Anissa Wilson ’20, an art major specializing in drawing, took a field trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in her first year at St. Joe’s. Kathleen Vaccaro, administrative assistant and adjunct...

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