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Estanek Receives JASPA Scholarship Award

The Jesuit Association of Student Personnel Administrators (JASPA) honored Sandra Estanek, PhD, professor emerita of graduate education and leadership, with the 2018 JASPA Scholarship Award.  The award “recognizes distinguished contributions to scholarship and literature in the areas of Jesuit and Catholic student affairs work and higher education.” Estanek served as the lead editor and contributor to Student Life in Catholic Higher Education: Advancing Good Practice, which was published in 2017.  Estanek also received this award in 2008 for her leadership in the creation of the Principles of Good Practice in Student Affairs at Catholic Colleges and Universities. Estanek retired as director of the master’s program in higher education and student affairs administration in December. She currently is chairing the college’s Jesuit Mission Examen self-study process.

Submitted by: College Communications

ALANA Achievement Award

ALANA Achievement Award

Deadline for submissions is March 24

The ALANA Achievement Award is a popular way to honor a graduating senior within the ALANA paradigm who exhibits the Jesuit value of magis. The senior selected to receive this award is given a Canisius College diploma frame during Honors Convocation.  “I am honored to be chairing this year’s ALANA Achievement Award Committee,” said H. David Sheets, PhD, director, Graduate Program in Data Analytics.

Please help to identify worthy candidates for this award.  To do so, review the award criteria/nomination form below.

ALANA_Achievement Award 2018 Nomination Form

Once you are confident the senior you have in mind matches the criteria for the award, submit the nomination form to me in the Physics Department in OM103 or send it via e-mail to sheets@canisius.edu.  Please Note that students are also allowed to self-nominate, or to nominate other students.  The deadline for nominations is Saturday March 24.

The nomination form may also be accessed at:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RUxxi0zS4ljbU3HE2UGM7iQEcAUwm_WK

“On behalf of the ALANA Achievement Award Committee, I thank you for your time and support,” added Sheets.

Submitted by: H. David Sheets, PhD, director, Graduate Program in Data Analytics

 

Enactus Video

The Canisius Enactus student group created a video to showcase their work in the community.

Enactus’ three main projects include Youth Entrepreneurship Showcase (or YES), REDI and Sew REDI.

Learn more about Enactus in the video here.

Submitted by: Mary Ellen Carver, executive associate, dean of the Wehle School of Business

EVENTS

EVENTS

Pool Update

Reopens tomorrow, March 20

The Koessler Athletic Center pool reopens for regular hours on Tuesday, March 20, 2018.

Hours of operation are: Monday – Friday, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., Monday – Thursday, 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Submitted by: Matthew Ferguson, equipment manager, Athletic Facilities

Video Institute Documentary Premiere

Jesuits in Latin America: Argentina

The Canisius College Video Institute will premiere its latest documentary on Wednesday, March 21 at 7 p.m. in the Science Hall Commons. The event is free and open to the public with a question and answer session followed by refreshments.

“Jesuits in Latin America: Argentina,” produced by Nicholas Foraker ’18 and Justin Fague ’19, follows a group of Canisius students as it travels to Argentina with the college’s Institute for the Global Study of Religion (IGSOR).  Travel and production were made possible by funding from The William H. Fitzpatrick Institute of Public Affairs and Leadership, IGSOR and the Video Institute.

IGSOR promotes interest in the study and practice of religion within the Canisius College community and the wider community of Western New York.

The Canisius College Video Institute provides students with opportunities to put their classroom lessons to work on projects that enrich their learning and benefit the greater community.

Submitted by: David Goodwin, graduate assistant, Communication Studies

Canisius Welcomes Bentley Hart

Noted philosophical theologian to speak

The Joseph J. Naples Conversations in Christ and Culture Lecture Series presents David Bentley Hart, PhD, American Orthodox Christian philosophical theologian and cultural commentator, on Wednesday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge. His lecture is entitled “The Gospel According to Melpomene: Theology and Tragedy.” This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Phillip Reed, PhD, associate professor of philosophy, at Ext. 2609 or click here.

Submitted by: Rosemary Evans, administrative associate, Religious Studies and Theology