1 The Regis College Case for Growth News

November 16, 2010
Dear Regis College Community,
We have had a very, very busy semester, all of us, beginning with high anticipation because of our high
enrollment (See RCCG News of August 31, 2010). Then the campus coped with the tragic incident of
September 24, giving us all pause. My message to you on October 6 aimed to capture the spirit of a college
community recovering from that tragedy and moving forward through previously scheduled events such as
Cap and Gown, Hoop Rolling, Founders’ Day, Homecoming and the Graduate Student Luncheon.
Now, as we approach Thanksgiving, final exams and, yes, Christmas, I look back on a couple of
photographs taken at our Convocation on September 7 and at Cap and Gown on September 30 that show the
strength, the pride, and the beauty of our campus -- its people, especially our students and our dedicated
faculty and staff.This is what the semester has been all about as we have continued through numerous
campus events, classes, celebration, exams, and reflection in the past two and a half months.
Sister Marie de Sales Dineen, CSJ, congratulates a
member of the senior class.
L to R: Shaynice Dorcena, Ryne Tillman, Sarah Gold, Caitlyn Walsh, and Joshua Fidalgo
The Regis College Case for Growth News
is dedicated to furthering the Case for Growth in the Regis community and focused on the College’s mission in the 21st
century through the practice of the active and inclusive love of God and neighbor expressed in the lives and values of our
founders, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston.
Edited by M. J. Doherty, Ph.D., Special Assistant to the President
Regis College, through education in the arts, sciences, and professions, empowers women and men to challenge
themselves academically, to serve and to lead. A Catholic college, Regis is a diverse and welcoming community
guided by the values of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston.
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Here we all are going to Convocation, beginning the semester with a procession, with Sister Sean Peters, SSJ, of the
Association of Colleges of the Sisters of St. Joseph joining us.
A few years ago at Regis we were talking about “emotional intelligence.” Today the operative phrase in numerous
professional organizations in discussing an institution is “human capital.” I was interested to learn in the
September online issue of SPIRITUALITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION that its editor, Leslie Schwartz, has adapted both
concepts: “As we welcome a new academic year, we continue to face increasingly tough economic
times across our nation and within our institutions. Given this current financial crisis, it is important to reflect upon
the intrinsic value of developing spiritual capital within our campus communities. According to Danah Zohar,
‘spiritual intelligence is the need for and access to vision, values, and a sense of higher purpose [and] spiritual
capital is putting these visions, values, and higher purposes into practice.’”
In this issue of RCCG News, I’d like to focus on our human capital, our people, and on putting our vision, values and
purpose into practice. This Thanksgiving, thank you, all of you, for all that you do to make Regis the learning
community it is.
Unless otherwise acknowledged, photographs
are by Heather Ciras of the Institutional
Advancement Staff, and heading designs by
Elena de Felice, College Graphic Designer.
Mary Jane England ’59, MD, President
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Congratulations, Andrea!
FACULTY & STAFF NEWS
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n September, Regis Faculty completed its election
of members to various faculty standing
committees:
Faculty Council:
LAESS representative: Sara Weintraub
At LARGE representative: Nancy Bittner
Admission, Progression and Retention:
LAESS: Sheila Prichard and John Mollica
The Presidential Search Committee composed of
Trustees, Faculty, Staff, Alums and Students has the
following members:
TRUSTEES: Ellen O’Connor, Chairperson, Sister Lee
Hogan, CSJ, Clyde Evans, Kathleen Dawley, Sister
Marilyn McGoldrick, CSJ, and Judy Lauch
FACULTY: Sister Judith Costello CSJ, Patricia Dardano
Anne Powers, M. Cristina Squeff
STAFF: Claudia Pouravelis, Dianna Jones
STUDENTS:Caitlin Erwin’11 (UG)
Nichole Samuels White ’11 (GR)
Educational Resources:
LAESS: Michael Jackson
SNSHP: Kathleen Galang
AT LARGE:Nancy Del Giudice
Faculty Development and Research:
LAESS: Raphael Florio
SNSHP: Barbara Dowds
AT LARGE: Leslie Bishop
Personnel Policies and Finance:
SNSHP: Susan Tammaro
AT LARGE: Margherite Matteis
ALUMNI: Joan Archer
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Culture and College Wide Programs:
SNSHP: David Croll
LAESS: Frans Rijnbout
AT LARGE: Verna Anne Power Charnitsky
ndre Schiff has become the Technical Director
at the Fine Arts Center. Mr. Schiff’s
professional experience includes work with
Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, the Old Globe
Theatre (San Diego), and the Centennial Olympic
Games in Atlanta. He has toured with Pink Floyd, the
Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones. He comes to us
from Bard College at Simon’s Rock, where he helped
transition the College from its older ARC Theater
Complex to its new Daniel Art Center. Welcome!
Lisa Castonguay has joined the Business Office as our
Collection Specialist in the Bursar’s office. Lisa will be
focusing her attention on collecting Student Accounts
Receivable by working with students and their
families. She comes to us from Kaplan Career
Institute in Boston where she was the student
accounts representative. She is a graduate of
Simmons College where she was the call center
manager while a full time student.
Curriculum and Academic Policies for LAESS:
S. Carmela Abbruzzese
Steve Belcher
Pat Elliott
Kathleen Kautzer
Curriculum and Academic Policies for SNSHP:
April Fletcher
Laura Mignone
Admission, Progression, and Retention:
Mary Gormley
Culture and College Wide Programs:
James Lane and Chas Burr
Academic Deans and faculty continue to discuss CAP
and PTSG in each school.
MACC
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iane Welsh and Karen Crowley, members of the
Nursing Department in SNSHP, completed their
doctorates in May, 2010.
Congratulations, Diane and Karen!
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oan Sullivan, Director of Human Resources, is
serving as the Presidential Search Liaison to the
Board and the Regis College Community. Faculty
met with search firm representatives on September
10, 2010 at 2:00 pm in College Hall Conference Room
202, and staff met with them on Friday, September
17, 2010 at 10:45 am- 12:00 Noon in College Hall
Conference Room 202 . Thank you, Joan.
has found our next VISTA representative,
Ashley Lesperance (graduate of UMass Amherst), who
joined us at the end of September.
ndrea Humphrey, a member of the English
Department in SLAESS, successfully defended
her doctoral dissertation on Friday. Sept 17.
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SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS,
EDUCATION &
SOCIAL SCIENCES
New Faculty in SLAESS – FA ‘10
Kathryn Edney PhD from Michigan State (2009)History
Department (American) Dissertation: “Gliding
through our Memories: The Performance of Nostalgia
in American Musical Theater.” Also worked in
historical societies in ME and in publishing.
Teaching the American History 203-204 sequence.
Nicoletta Pellegrino PhD from New York University
(2006) History Department (European) Dissertation
“From Reason of State to Reason of Church” – traces
clericalism of Catholic Church. Has taught at NYU,
Seton Hall, UCLA and Harvard Extension.
Teaching HI 107 The Ancient World; and HI 108
Europe and the World After 1500.
Brian Rich MSW from Boston College (2009)Sociology
Department Licensed Clinical Social Worker; InHome Therapist; former high school teacher.
Teaching SO 205: Social Problems.
Michelle Cromwell PhD from Nova Southeastern
University (2007) Sociology Department Her PhD is in
conflict Analysis and Resolution; Assistant Professor at
Pine Manor; also Visiting Lecturer at Bridgewater
State and Adjunct at Wheelock. She is a violence
prevention and conflict resolution specialist and has
taught classes in various places on peace, diversity
and social justice. Teaching a section of SO 201
Introduction to Sociology and SO 304
Oppression/Prejudice/Discrimination.
Angela Stroupe M.A. from Brandeis (2009) Sociology
Department. Her degree is in Sociocultural
Anthropology, ad she has taught as a full-time adjunct
at the Air Force Culture and Language Center in
Montgomery, AL; and ESL in several places.
Teaching a section of SO 201 Introduction to
Sociology.
Helen Kim M.A. from U.C. Berkeley, Mathematics
Department. She has teaching experience at various
universities and colleges (U. San Diego, George Mason,
Tidewater Community College). Teaching a section
of MA 096 Beginning Algebra.
Alison Uzdella expects her Ph.D. from Northeastern
in 2012. Political Science Department She has been a
lecturer at Northeastern since 2006. Teaching PO
231 Human Rights.
Bernard Jackson Ph.D. University of Iowa (2003)
Philosophy & Religious Studies Department Teaching
PH 101 Introduction to Philosophy and PH 104 How
We Think: Intro to Logic.
SLAESS also boasts two special Math tutors this
semester: Dr. Cristina Squeff of the Math
Department and Dr. Clyde Evans of the Board of
Trustees.
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mong recent faculty achievements and
activities in SLAESS are the following:
Professor Jayson Baker’s “A Review of Harlow
Robinson’s ‘Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood
Russians,’” will appear in QRFV (Quarterly Review of
Film and Video), Vol. 28. Issue 1 (January, 2011). A
highly selective film journal, QRFV is published by
Routledge Press, affiliated with the University of
Nebraska. The review highlights a book describing the
internationalization of Hollywood by Russian artists
and the evolving image of Russians throughout the
twentieth century, thus exposing film scholars to
texts that argue how the Hollywood image was from
the onset a global construction.
Dr. Raffaele Florio presented a paper entitled “The
Fishermen’s Rebellion: Memory and the Reassertion
of Power” at the Oral History Association National
Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 29, 2010.
The paper discussed an ongoing memory study in a
maritime community on the Cilento Coast of
Southwest Italy. The study allows the collective
memory--in the form of oral history and folklore--of
native villagers to interpret the past on its own terms.
Local legend, poetry and ritual is evaluated in the
context of the sea, in its paradoxical beauty and
danger. Additionally, the study traces the village’s
ability to reclaim its identity through various episodes
of perceived change.
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Professor Lauren Forcucci recently had an article
entitled "Battle for Births: The Fascist Campaign in
Italy 1925 to 1938," published in the Journal of the
Society for the Anthropology of Europe. She was
invited to speak on the article at a recent conference
in London. And she also ran a “white socks” donation
campaign on campus for our troops between October
19 and November 11 in conjunction with First Year
Seminar.
Dr. Kathleen Kautzer’s book, The Underground
Church: Nonviolent Resistance to Vatican Empire,
will be published in the spring of 2011 as part of a
book series published by the Studies in Critical
Research on Religion. The book will published in
hardcover by Brill Publishers, and later in paperback
by Haymarket Books.
Professor Wendy Lement hosted an Evening with
Theatre Espresso, featuring Amherst writer Bruce
Watson, author of Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants
and the Struggle for the American Dream, at a
reception to celebrate the opening of her company's
eighteenth season, on Monday, November 8, 6:30 –
8:30 p.m., at the Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center
for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., Boston. The evening
featured a performance of Theatre Espresso's new
play American Tapestry: Immigrant Children of the
Bread and Roses Strike (co-written and directed by
Dr. Lement). The play, which is in residence at the
Lawrence Heritage State Park Visitors Center and the
John Adams Courthouse in Boston, is the centerpiece
of Mass Humanities new partnership with Theatre
Espresso. Dr. Lement will also be reading from her
book And Justice for Some: Exploring American
Justice Through Drama and Theatre on Nov. 18 from
5-8 p.m., during Brookline's 1st Light Festival at the
Brookline Booksmith, 290 Harvard St., Coolidge
Corner, Brookline.
Dr. Julia Lisella had two poems from her new
manuscript in process accepted for a special issue on
Grief and Mourning in the academic journal Journal of
the Motherhood Initiative for Research and
Community Involvement (JMI), published by the
Motherhood Initiative for Research in Toronto,
Canada.
Dr. Leona McCaughey-Oreszak served as the
chairperson and report writer for a three day school
evaluation visit at the Lyndon School in Boston this
past spring. As a pilot school in Boston, the Lyndon
Leadership Team and faculty engaged in a self-study
which was reviewed by a visiting team of six
members.
Members of the Education Department--Sister Judith
Costello, CSJ, Sister Carmela Abbruzzese, CSJ, and
Dr. Leona Mccaughey-Oreszak, have completed seven
days of inservice related to the new procedures for
re-accreditation of education programs. Sponsored
by the Department of Elementary and Secondary
Education, these sessions focused on the new
Effectiveness Indicators that are the base of the new
process. These indicators stress outcomes in teacher
education and not input, which had been the
orientation in the past. All education programs will
have a site visit in June 2011.
Dr. Lucia Ortiz organized a panel (“La (In)visibilidad
de la mujer afrocolombiana ante la crisis”) and
presented a paper (“De ‘la Negra Grande de
Colombia’ a Piedad Córdoba: vida y obra de la mujer
afrocolombiana”) on Afro-Colombian Women at the
“XXIX Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
International Congress”, which took place October 69, 2010 in Toronto.
Dr. Sheila Prichard reports that the Glee Club and
Alumnae Chorus traveled to Sicily on concert tour
March 6-15, 2010. The 70 participants included
members of the combined groups as well as parents,
grandparents, siblings, Regis alumni, and faculty
members. Repertoire for the tour featured madrigals
of the Italian Renaissance period and sacred classic
pieces, but the bulk of the program consisted of the
music that Europeans love to hear American choirs
sing: American music, especially spirituals –
something for the head, something for the heart, and
something for the toe. The Sicilians at Santa Maria
Church urged the group to repeat a favorite, a rousing
spiritual setting by Kirby Shaw entitled "Joshua (Fit
the Battle of Jericho)." Alumna Elizabeth Smith and
Sheila’s colleague Paul Huberdeau shared the
conducting.
For upcoming events, Dr. Prichard notes that:
The Glee Club, Alumnae Chorus, Chamber Singers,
Handbell Choir, and Instrumental Ensemble will
present the annual Christmas Concert on Sat and
Sun Dec. 4 - 5, 2010 at 3:30 pm. in Casey
Theatre, Fine Arts Center. Individual groups will
present a variety of holiday music, then combined
choirs and orchestra will present two movements
of Handel's great Dettingen Te Deum. Christmas
"Pops" favorites for chorus and orchestra will
include “Twas the Night Before Christmas," and
"It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year." The
concert will conclude with the traditional
candlelight rendition of "Silent Night."
THE CHAMBER SINGERS will perform at the
Faculty/Trustee Christmas Gathering in CH Foyer
at 6:30 p.m. on December 9, and at the Spellman
Museum at 3:00 pm on Sunday, December 12.
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Regis College Glee Club and Alumnae Chorus will
perform with the Civic Symphony Orchestra of
Boston in Casey Theatre, Regis Fine Arts Center,
on Saturday, December 18, at 2:00 pm. The
featured selection will be ""Twas the Night Before
Christmas."
Dr. Frans Rijnbout took his Introduction to Theatre
class to a performance of “In the Next Room” at
Boston’s Center for the Arts on September 26th in
order to expand students’ theatre experience. As
follow up, the lead-actress in the play, Sarah Gottlieb,
visited Regis to discuss the play with the students and
to answer questions related to her career and the
craft of acting.
Dr. Mary-Anne Vetterling is currently working on the
second edition of a literary textbook, Panoramas
literarios España, originally written by Beverly Mayne
Kienzle, Harvard University and Teresa Méndez-Faith,
Saint Anselm College. The book covers literature of
Spain from the Middle Ages to the present. Mary
Anne is revising the entire book, updating the current
selections, and adding new ones, especially from the
latest twenty-first century authors living in Spain
today. She is also creating numerous interactive
exercises for the book’s website, where students will
be able to learn more about the authors via links to
other websites and understand better the selections
from the textbook via self-correcting exercises. The
book will be published by Cengage and is scheduled to
be in print by November, 2011.
The Spanish Department faculty at Regis, Dr. Lucía
Ortiz, Professor Pat Donahue-McElhiney (Regis ‘71)
and Dr. Mary-Anne Vetterling, will be attending the
annual meeting of The American Council on the
Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) to be held in
Boston, November 19-21, 2010. At ACTFL Dr.
Vetterling will present a paper on Almodóvar’s film
“Abrazos rotos” in a session entitled “Love, Loss, and
Laughter” along with Joy Renjilian-Burgy of Wellesley
College and Patricia Pogal of Morehouse College.
Dr. Vetterling has also received a Small Grant from
Regis College to sponsor five Spanish Majors/Minors at
the ACTFL Convention in Boston this November. They
will be introduced to the largest professional
conference for language teachers in this country.
These students will have one year of membership in
ACTFL, will receive funding for their registration, one
workshop, and a luncheon specifically for Spanish
teachers and co-sponsored by the Embassy of Spain.
In addition they will be able to attend sessions of
their choice for over two days at this conference.
Afterwards they will write a brief paper about their
experience. The students who have received this
funding are Jeidy Batista, Arielle Black, Emily Melo,
Marlene Méndez, and Desiree Tavarez.
Dr. Sara Chudnovsky Weintraub will present a paper
at the annual convention of the National
Communication Association in San Francisco
November 14-17, 2010 entitled, "Bridging Course
Content with Service to the Community:
Incorporating Service-Learning into the Basic
Course." In addition, with a colleague from Ohio
University (Candice Thomas-Maddox) she will present
"Introduction to Service-Learning: Building Bridges to
Link Colleges and Communities."
In August 2010, Dr. Lauress Wilkins presented a
paper during the annual meeting of the Catholic
Biblical Association (CBA), in San Diego. The paper,
"Women and Children, War and Famine in the Book of
Lamentations," has been accepted for publication in
an anthology on hunger in the Bible, being produced
by the CBA's Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics Task
Force. Dr. Wilkins’ published dissertation is now in
print: The Book of Lamentations and the Social
World of Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Era (Gorgias
Press, 2010). Congratulations, Lauress!
SCHOOL OF NURSING,
SCIENCES, & HEALTH
PROFESSIONS
New Faculty in SNSHP – FA ‘10
Margaret Oot- Hayes PhD RN BS SUNY-Nursing-1993
MS UNH- Nursing- 2001PhD Boston College- Nursing2007 *Research-Interests - Experiences of
Incarcerated Mothers
Valerie Hunt PhD RN
BS Boston College- Nursing-1972
MS Medical College of Virginia- Nursing- 1975
PhD Boston College-Education, Research,
Measurement and Evaluation1993
*Research-Interests- Nursing leadership (
many years in nursing leadership as the Chief
Nursing Officer/Chief Nurse Executive of
major medical centers including St Elizabeth’s
Hospital in Brighton, Ma)
Lisa Fardy MS MPH RN
BA Fitchburg State College- English- 1998
MS Case Western Reserve- Nursing- 2005
MPH Dartmouth College- Public Health -2006
*Research/interests -Clinical Nurse
Researcher/Public Health/policy
Michelle Cook MS RN
BS Northeastern University- Nursing-1982
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MS Regis College- Nursing- 1982
*Nurse educator and academic administrator
Cathy Auguste
Donna Barry
Sheila Davis, DNP, ANP,
FAAN
Patricia McCauley MS RN
BS Salem state College- Nursing- 1977
MS Framingham state College -Nursing Education2010
Pre-licensure education and nursing
laboratory and simulation expert.
M. J. Doherty, Ph.D.
Aba Ewusi, MD
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n other news from the School of Nursing, Sciences
and Health Professions, the first meeting of the
Advisory Board of the Regis College Haiti
Project was held on October 27 to strategize about
funding and timelines. We were especially pleased
that Advisory Board members Maud Duvilaire,
former Director of Nursing in the Haitian Ministry of
Health, who came to the meeting from Haiti, and
Archbishop Sean P. Cardinal O’Malley, OFM, Cap.,
who is on the USCCB Committee to help Haiti, were
both able to be there. The next meeting of the Regis
College Haiti Project Advisory Board will be held in
February 2011.
The Regis College Haiti Project provides a model for
building the human infrastructure of Haiti by
“educating the educators” in nursing. In relationship
with Regis since 2007, Haitian nursing leaders
endorse the project and eagerly await its funding so
the three year hybrid program can begin, some
portions at Regis, some in Haiti, and some on line.
Besides Cardinal Sean, Maud Duvilaire, Dean Hays,
and me, the other members of the Advisory Board are
listed in the table above.
Somoise Magny, MSN
Cherlie Normilus, RN
Alexis Pryzybylski
Nancy White Street,
MS, PNP, BC
Bill White
Assistant to Linda Dorcena Forry, MA
State Representative
Director of Policy, Partners in Health
Global Nursing Coordinator, Partners
in Health
Special Assistant to the President,
Regis College
Hospitalist, Brigham and
Women’s/Cambridge Health Alliance
Regis College Graduate
Regis College Graduate Student and
Instructor
Communications Coordinator, Regis
Haiti Project Team
Regis College Faculty Member &
Director, Regis College Haiti Project
Assistant Secretary for Federal
Relations, Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, Executive Office of
Energy and Environmental Affairs
L to R: Maud Duvilaire, Nancy Street, Cherlie
Normilus, Cardinal Sean, President England, Dean Toni
Hays
Photographs by
Alexis Pryzybylski
Cardinal Sean with Dr Maud Duvilaire, former
Director of Nursing, Haitian Ministry of Health and
Dean Toni Hays, Regis College School of Nursing,
Science and Health Professions
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mong recent faculty achievements and
activities in SNSHP are the following:
George Argyros and Anne Powers are
developing projects for the new Environmental
Biology Concentration with funds from a Kaneb Grant.
Nancy Bittner received a Nursing Leadership Award
from the National League of Nursing at the NLN
Education Summit in Las Vegas, 2010. She is also
presenting a paper called, “Intimate Partner
Violence, Focus on Nursing Education in Lima Peru,”
at the International Congress for Health on Violence
on Women, 2010, and will have a chapter in a
forthcoming book, “Giving Through Teaching; How
Nurse Educators are Changing the World” on her
experiences in nursing education in Peru (Springer
Publishing, 2010). With Marie McCarthy and Kathleen
Ericson, Nancy also made a podium presentation at
the NLN Education Summit on “Excellence Making a
Difference through Global Initiatives.”
Pat Ciarleglio presented “Expediting Education of
Nursing Students Regarding Ethical Issues” at the
West Roxbury, VA.
Karen Crowley presented the “DNP Outcomes Survey”
at the Third Annual Doctors of Nursing Practice
Conference in San Diego, CA on 10/1/10
Joanne Dalton and Margherite Matteis addressed the
“Needs of Psychiatric Clinical Nursing Faculty: It Takes
More Than a Village” at the American Psychiatric Nurses
Association Conference in Louisville, KY .
Elizabeth Kilpatrick’s Kaneb grant has her researching
"Human T Lymphocyte Responses to Influenza Virus"
at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center
(Worcester) in the laboratory of Drs. Francis Ennis
and Masanori Terajima.
Mary Lombard - Title II, Dwight D. Eisenhower Grant,
to direct the annual Math/Science Workshop for
Catholic elementary school teachers. The workshop is
scheduled for June 21-24, 2011, on the Regis College
Campus.
Joyce Oppenheimer and Carol Martin have received a
faculty development grant on “Use of Stimulation and
Intensive Education Interventions.”
Sigma Xi, the scientific research honor society with
members for the Biology, Biochemistry and
Psychology faculty, will meet on Wednesday,
November 17 at 3:30 p.m. in CH 202 to present the
work of Thuong La and Marianna Fernandes at
Hershey School of Medicine.
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egis keeps keeping up with advances in
technology, and we’re all proud that our new,
student-centered and more interactive website
was successfully launched on September 14, touting
our new tag line:
Bring Your Purpose. Find Your
Path.
Special thanks go to VP Paul Vaccaro and IT Director
Marla Botelho. The general message is that “At Regis
College, our Academic Pathways integrate sets of
disciplines to help our students identify, pursue and
attain their ultimate goals. On the foundation of our
core curriculum, requirements for majors/minors,
and superb advising, the Pathways assist students in
finding their way – to careers, to graduate school, and
beyond.”
If alums and trustees haven’t looked at the new
website yet, take a look at www.regiscollege.edu.
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hanks also to the efforts of our academic Deans,
Sister Betty Cawley, CSJ, and Toni Hays, Sarah
Barrett, Associate VP, Academic Affairs, Marla
Botelho, Director of IT, Patti Vano, Office of Finance
and Business, and Elena De Felice, Graphic Designer,
the Regis College Academic Catalog is also now
posted on the website with links available on several
different pages, including the Current Students,
Undergraduate Programs, Graduate Programs, and
Registrar pages. Check it out, right here:
http://www.regiscollege.edu/UserFiles/File/current_s
tudents/Academic_Catalog_AY_2010_11-8-10.pdf
Faculty and staff have been keeping up with
technology, too, having learned at the faculty
workshop in August about a Writing Wiki at
http://regiswritingprogram.pbworks.com/
and using Centralized Check-In to manage the
communications and photography release form 20102014.
RETENTION TASK FORCE
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ean of Students Kara Kolomitz reports that the
Retention Task Force, chaired by Board of
Trustee member Judy Lauch, met again in
October and is focusing on analyzing our
retention and graduation rates and evaluating our
support services to students. This task force is
working with faculty and staff to develop and
promote policies and programs that result in student
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retention and satisfaction. A recent report in the
Chronicle of Education lists five best practices at
institutions that graduate more students than their
peer institutions. These include reducing the number
of excessive credits students take and redesigning
instruction to offer full summer semesters.
Spring Storm
T
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Frans Rijnbout
T
T
he Office of Graduate Admission ran a very
successful “Welcome Back!” Wine and Cheese
gathering for graduate students, faculty and
staff in the Graduate Student Lounge on September
28.
he campus was treated November 10-13, to a
full production of Tennessee Williams’ “Spring
Storm” directed by Assoc. Professor Frans
Rijnbout, and the poster below by Assoc. Prof. Steve
Belcher suggests our co-ed identity! Preceding the
opening production on Thursday, November 10, I
joined alums for a wine and cheese gathering in the
Carney Gallery.
he O’Doherty sisters, Theresa and Liz,
respectively, in the photo below, were
prominently featured in the October 27 Regis
College Health Lecture Series panel on posttraumatic stress disorder. Both are Regis grads from
the nurse practitioner program, and both are U. S.
Veterans who served in Iraq. See the article on the
panel written by Heather Ciras of the Institutional
Advancement staff, which was published
In the Weston Town Crier for Veteran’s Day,
November 11, 2010:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/weston/topstories/x115
982657/Regis-College-takes-closer-look-at-posttraumatic-stress-disorder
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S
ister Rosemary Mulvihill, RSM, Dean of Student
Ministry and Life, conducted a special one-day
retreat for alums and friends of the College on
Saturday, October 23 in Morrison House on
“Letting Go… Facing Life’s Losses.” The day was cohosted by Campus Ministry and Alumni Relations.
Dave de Bronkart file photo
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-patient Dave de Bronkart spoke about the
benefits of active patient engagement and the
uses of new information technology in patient
care on Monday evening, November 8, in CH Foyer.
His was the firsdt lecture in the Current Topics in the
Health Professions Series sponsored by Regis’s School
of Nursing, Science and Health Professions.
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he Regis College Alumni Association is planning
a cruise to Bermuda (seven nights round trip)
from Boston departing May 27, 2011 on the
Norwegian Dawn. Call the Alumni office or Barbara
Clancy at 781-768-7243 for more information.
he IA office has been taking good shape under
the direction of Chief Development Officer
Miriam Sherman. To date in FY’11, the College
has received a financial boost as well : Nearly $600,
000. of bequests money has come in, including a
large donation from the estate of former German
professor and Regis alum, Mary Hamilton, shown
below in the Regis College file photo.
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Regis’ freshmen enrollment of 303
students in Fall, 2010 is the largest in over 30
years at the College.
Regis was named by the Princeton Review to be
one of the top Northeast colleges in the United
States. In addition, Regis was also among just a
handful of New England schools to be designated
as a College of Distinction by that college
guidebook.
Current inquiries for the Fall 2011 term are up by
42%.
On November 3, Regis hosted the Boston National
Hispanic College Fair, which brought over 1,200
onto campus.
This winter, our women’s and men’s basketball teams
will take to the soon-to-be-named Sister Therese
Higgins, CSJ, Court with great expectations and postseason tournament hopes. The women’s team looks
to build on last year’s 20-win season that saw them
reach the ECAC semi-finals for the first time since the
mid-1990s, while the men have a talent-laden,
veteran team of eight returning players, including six
Seniors. The Offices of Enrollment Management and
Institutional Advancment are working together on
the gym floor dedication in loving memory of
Sister Therese, which will occur on January
29. Save the date!
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egis grad (Class of 2006) and Dartmouth
University researcher Courtney Kozul-Horvath,
PhD, is the recipient of the 2010 Karen
Wetterhahn Award presented Nov. 12, 2010, at
the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences (NIEHS) Superfund Research Program Annual
Meeting in Portland, OR, and is known as an
outstanding scientist and dedicated teacher,
researcher and mentor. See the article on her here:
http://dms.dartmouth.edu/news/2010/11/12_ko
zul.shtml
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s. Kathryn Erat, whom I met at a meeting at
the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Center in 2002
and who has become a generous benefactress
to Regis by funding Christian Immersion trips for
students to Rome and to Israel, has also recently
funded the Regis College Department of Philosophy
and Religious Studies for study travel to China in May
2011 for a select group of interested students.
Professor Ernest Collamati is handling the details. He
anticipates a trip of 12-14 days, departing from
Boston around May 20, and is in touch with other
faculty regarding potential student candidates who
have a serious interest in learning about Chinese
history, culture and religion. Interested students
need to contact Professor Collamati by November 17,
and selected students will participate in the RS
Seminar in spring in preparation for travel in May.
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his fall the College Academic Affairs Committee
advising me on academic decisions asked that I
approve a roster of course in SLAESS and a new
part-time UG program in Nursing in SNSHP for those
who already have college degrees.
The courses approved for SLAESS will help build up
our History offerings, Political Science offerings,
graduate Communication program, and Religious
Studies:
1. CO615 Strategic Corporate Social
Responsibility
2. HI 388 Special Topics in History
3. P0 356 Corrections in America: An
Introduction
4. RS 130 Cultivating the Inner Spirit
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rustee Carole Barrett is Vice-Chair of the
Trademark Standing Committee of the California
State Bar and was recently elected to the
executive committee of the Intellectual Property Law
Section. The INTA Bulletin of October 1, 2010, the
voice of the International Trademark Association,
pays credit to Carole and to her Regis education when
it says, “Carole Barrett entered law accidentally but
once there adopted trademarks on purpose. Having
earned a degree in chemistry, she imagined herself the
next Madame Curie. Life took unexpected twists,
however, and Carole spent a number of years
teaching chemistry, math and physics. Then she met
a lawyer, who dared her to go to law school…. Her
career took her to a corporate position in Boston and
then to San Francisco, where she has been both inhouse and in private practice. For the past eight
years, Carole has been a partner at Howard Rice,
heading up the firm’s Trademark Counseling &
Transactions Practice Group.”
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NLNAC, a primary national nursing accrediting
association, had already approved the substantive
change for offering the BS program in a part time
modality for second degree students. The Regis UG
program would be offered in a part time sequence,
evenings and weekends. The courses are exactly
the same as for the traditional undergraduate
nursing program. The only difference is the
admission criteria. In order to be enrolled in the
program, the students must have a previous non
nursing baccalaureate degree and have completed
the science, statistics and ethics pre-requisites.
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technological device that puts a library of resources
at the fingertips of professionals, including those in
nursing and medicine. Our nursing faculty have
helped pilot Skyscape and use it at Regis to train
students. Trustee Donato Tramuto has helped
promote the device.
t was my pleasure
on the afternoon
of November 8 to
introduce former
First Lady Rosalynn
Carter at a special
gathering in the Fine
Arts Center Atrium
to celebrate and
discuss her new
book, Within Our
Reach: Ending the
Mental Health Crisis
(Rodale, 2010).
Also present was
Kathy Cade, coauthor of the book
and chair of the
Judge Baker Board.
n October 21-22, I was pleased to participate in
Partners HealthCare's 2010 Connected Health
Symposium in Boston. The workshop I was
conducting had to do with the Skyscape, a new
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Many members of the Secret Service were
present, of course, and they had checked out the
Fine Arts Center before the event. Maureen Iaricci,
Steve Hall, Nancy Rosata and Andre Schiff did a
wonderful job arranging things for the conversation,
and Daegan Von Swearingen, manager of the Regis
Bookstore, oversaw the provision of books to sign.
The College bestowed an honorary degree on Mrs.
Rosalynn Carter in April, 2002, at my inauguration,
and I have served on her Mental Health Task Force at
the Carter Center for many years. I was very pleased
to have her on campus again.
Before a packed audience including members
of LLARC, Regis College undergraduates and graduate
students, trustees, faculty, staff, members of the
Judge Baker Board, and other guests, we had a lively
conversation about the new developments, medical
advances and abiding social needs in helping those
with mental health and substance use issues and
working to overcome stigma, whether for parents
coping with depression or returning troops, or young
people. Questions from the audience ranged from
inquiries about mental health parity, health care
reform and the effect of the recent elections to more
personal inquiries about a struggling family member.
Mrs Carter also shared some engaging stories about
her life on the campaign trail and the example of
President Carter’s mother, “Miss Lillian.”
My Executive Assistants, Katya Rego and
Marcia Spivey, coordinated everything. At the end of
the book signing they each took away a superb
memento of the occasion:
Mrs. Carter and Marcia
After the conversation, there was a
booksigning against the backdrop of the colorful
photographic exhibition by Kathleen Gerdon Archer
challenging the representation of women.
Here’s the link to the Weston Town Crier
article about the event:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/weston/highlight/x41254
2502/Former-first-lady-makes-stop-at-Regis-College-inWeston
Mrs. Carter and Katya
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n November 14, the Alumni Office of the
College sponsored its annual Memorial Liturgy
and Luncheon. Many alums had signed up to
come, and we had a full house, having to move the
luncheon from CH Foyer to the Main Dining Hall.
Certainly the Regis College Community had people to
remember, including Sister A. Catherine Murphy, CSJ
(Sister Flavia), Sister Therese Higgins, CSJ, and VicePresident, Student Life, Lynn Coleman. My office
learned that Sister Therese’s good friend, Father
Raimundo Panikkar, passed away on August 26, about
six months after Sister Therese.
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lease remember in your prayers Sheila Noreen
Young, wife of Dr. Richard Young, Regis College
Trustee and dear friend of the College. Sheila
passed away on November 13, and many of us will be
joining Dick this week to celebrate her life.
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tudent Life and Institutional Advancement are
working together on some appropriate way to
honor Lynn. On display in the Dining Hall was
the medal bestowed upon Father Dennis Burns by the
Order of the Holy Sepulchre and given to him by
Cardinal Humberto Medeiros for Father Burns’
contribution to the life of the faithful in his work at
the marriage tribunal in the Archdiocese of Boston.
This is the medal of the Knight of the Grand Cross of
the Holy Sepulchre, with sash, star and miniature.
HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS 2011
I am pleased to announce that the College will
confer two honorary degrees at
Commencement on May 14, 2011. Recipients
are
Missionary Sister Clare Dawson, C.P., whose
work Regis students, faculty and staff have
come to know on annual Spring Break service
trips to Villa El Salvador, Peru
Former WBZ news anchor and pastor Liz
Walker whose humanitarian work in Dafur and
in various social causes in Greater Boston and
New England has demonstrated her
commitment to social justice
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Liz Walker will give the Commencement
n the evening of November 16, Miriam Sherman
Address.
and I will host former presidents of the Alumni
Association for dinner at Morrison House.
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he Regis College site visit by a NEASC evaluative
team led by Father Jonathan DeFelice, OSB, will
occur March 27-29, 2011. The focused visit
will especially attend to finance and enrollment.
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he SGA members for the 2010-2011 academic
years are as follows:
Executive Board:
President: Mary Kate Flynn
Vice President Caitlyn Geagan
Secretary: Marlene Mendez
Treasurer: Ruth Nakiwala
Senate:
2011: President: Amanda Venezia
Vice President: Elizabeth Lawlor
Secretary: Caitlin Erwin
Treasurer: Narissa Clarke
2012:
President: Lilian Pereira Silva
Vice President: Domingas Gomes
Secretary: Belinda Birungi
Treasurer:
2013:
President: Amanda Donahue
Vice President: Andrew Blanchette
Secretary: Jacqueline Williams
Treasurer: Nicholas Yerzyk
The Office of Student Affairs sent 7 students to the
National Association of Campus Activities northeast
regional conference November 4-7 in Hartford, CT.
Students attended educational sessions and
workshops that encouraged them to discover the
power of their imagination and the impact it can have
in each of us and our campus community. Eager to
share what they learned, these students leaders will
be creating several campus programs in the upcoming
months for the student body.
PERU 15 students and 7 staff and faculty members
have been selected to travel to Lima, Peru for the
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annual Regis College service trip in March, 2011. The
team of students, staff and faculty will return to Villa
El Salvador, Peru for an alternative Spring Break. We
will work with members of the community to help
improve the lives of children and families. Nursing
Students will complete Community Nursing hours as
they work alongside the professional staff of the
clinics and apply their skills in home visits. Others will
apply brains, brawn and heart to make some physical
improvements and create new relationships.
INTERFAITH THANKSGIVING SERVICE
Please join the College community on Friday,
November 19th at 12:15 in the College Hall Foyer for
an Interfaith Thanksgiving Service.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The next panel in The Regis
College Leadership Series on
Health will treat
the topic of prevention of violence
against women (November 17).
The Leadership Series meets on
Wednesday evening,
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.,
in Upper Student Union Lounge.
See press coverage here:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/wayland/topsto
ries/x1109352148/Regis-College-to-hostpanel-on-preventing-violence-against-women
Sanborn’s window of Mary, Star of the Sea
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ith my best wishes to the entire Regis
community for a very happy Thanksgiving
holiday, let me remind all of you, as we enter
Advent on November 28, to save the date for the
Annual Christmas Tree Lighting on December 6h in the
College Hall Foyer at 5:30 p.m. This Regis tradition
officially begins the seasonal festivities on campus.
The next issue of the Regis College Case for Growth
News will appear in late January or early February.
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