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Steve Moelter, Ph.D., poses at his desk in his office located in Post Hall PHOTO: MAX KELLY ’24/THE HAWK

Q&A with Steve Moelter

Max Kelly April 24, 2024

Steve Moelter, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology and co-director of the Neuroscience Program. Born and raised in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Moelter started skateboarding at age 12. From then...

University offers tenure buyout program for faculty

Vincent Kornacki April 10, 2024

Tenured St. Joe’s faculty members were given the opportunity to participate in a tenure buyout program, as first announced in a Feb. 8 email to all tenured faculty from James Carter, Ph.D., interim...

Elizabeth Morgan, Ph.D., performs at the faculty recital featuring music by women composers from the
United States in the Frances M. Maguire Art Museum, March 21.
PHOTO: MAURITZ WILSHUSEN ’27/THE HAWK

American women take center stage in faculty piano recital

Gavin Kuebler March 27, 2024

A faculty recital featuring pianist Elizabeth Morgan, Ph.D., associate professor of music, was held March 21 in the Frances M. Maguire Art Museum.  The performance served as the third entry of...

Faculty host group discussions

Savannah Warner March 27, 2024

About 10 students and faculty members and three facilitators gathered March 20 for a small group discussion about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. The discussion was part of a program...

Ad Hawk: Beginnings

Ad Hawk: Beginnings

Paul Aspan March 20, 2024

On a bright and warm April afternoon in 1987, I was standing in the kitchen of our house in South Bend, Indiana when the wall phone rang. With a timbre that sounded like an army marching on gravel, the...

Students in the SJU Summer Program in Greece in 2019 on the Acropolis of Athens.
PHOTO COURTESY OF SUSAN CLAMPET-LUNDQUIST, Ph.D.

Study abroad office down to staff of one

Allie Miller February 7, 2024

St. Joe’s Center for International Programs (CIP), which supports study abroad programs for students, and faculty and staff leaders, is down to just one staff member. Tom Kesaris, director of the...

Alannah Vazquez poses with her rubber duck collection in her office on the third floor of
Campion Student Center.
PHOTO: ALLY ENGELBERT ’25/THE HAWK

Q&A with Alannah Vazquez

Ally Engelbert February 7, 2024

Alannah Vazquez was appointed associate director of Student Leadership and Activities in November 2023. Vazquez has bachelor degrees in middle level education and American studies from La Salle University,...

Faculty approves new general education requirements

Vincent Kornacki and Luke Sanelli December 6, 2023

St. Joe’s faculty voted last week to approve a new curriculum that will begin with students who enter St. Joe’s in 2025. A total of 236 ballots were cast, with 199 (over 86%) voting to accept,...

Benefits enrollment changes

Benefits enrollment changes

Hannah Pajtis November 15, 2023

Benefits enrollment for faculty, administrators and staff is active this coming year, which means they must select their benefits options during a two-week window that ends Nov. 15 or lose them. The...

The book discussed in the professional development course on inclusive teaching.
PHOTO: ALLIE MILLER ’24/THE HAWK

University hosts inclusive pedagogy course for faculty

Max Kelly November 15, 2022

A group of St. Joe’s faculty is participating this year in a professional development course on inclusive teaching. Held monthly from October 2022 to April 2023, the Inclusive Pedagogy Learning Community...

PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS 22/THE HAWK

University returns retirement cuts as one-time payment

Mitchell Shields November 16, 2021

Faculty and staff who had 403(b) retirement plan cuts last year will receive a one-time payment of 5% of their fiscal year 2022 salary, according to President Mark Reed, Ed.D., in a Nov. 4 announcement...

Todd Erkis on the pitch.
PHOTO COURTESY OF TODD ERKIS

Professors by day, referees by night

Tyler Nice October 26, 2021

College professors are used to navigating various complaints from students. However, a select few professors from the Erivan K. Haub School of Business have been the recipients of far more egregious complaints...

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