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D I S P A T C H E S College launches new athletics web site at gomonks.com Saint Joseph’s has partnered with PrestoSports to launch a new athletics web site at www.gomonks.com. The new site, which has a whole new look and format, will allow fans, alums and media to quickly find information about the school’s teams. Now part of the PrestoSports Network, scores entered into the gomonks.com site will immediately update the web site’s schedules, the GNAC schedules, and national media sites such as d3football, d3hoops, d3soccer, d3baseball and laxmagazine.com. Some of the distinctive features on gomonks.com include a headlines ticker, calendars, scoreboards, rotating stories, in-depth student-athlete bios and more. The site also highlights recreation programs. “We are very excited about our partnership with PrestoSports,” says Saint Joseph’s athletic director Brian Curtin. “We are looking forward to having this new site as one of our strongest ways of promoting our student-athletes and our athletics department.” College partners with Catholic health care provider to offer online graduate degree Saint Joseph’s announces an educational partnership with Catholic Healthcare Partners (CHP), a large Catholic health organization based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Under the agreement, employee leaders at CHP are eligible to receive tuition discounts while taking courses online to earn a Master in Health Administration degree with a concentration in Catholic Health Leadership. The Catholic Healthcare Partners organization includes 33 acute care hospitals and 13 long-term care centers in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and Pennsylvania. It also runs seven hospice programs, 10 home health agencies and 17 affordable housing facilities. The health care and service provider employs more than 28,000 people, including more than 6,000 medical staff. Catholic Healthcare Partners is a mission-driven, not-for-profit health system charged with extending the “healing ministry of Jesus by improving the health of our communities with emphasis on people who are poor and underserved.” Service learning where everyone learns Talk about a win-win. With the help of a $2,500 grant from the Fisher Charitable Foundation, education professor Dr. Janice Rey created a new servicelearning program at a local, urban school that does many things at once for the benefit of all. Using environmental education curricula, the program promotes science literacy, helps prepare Saint Joseph’s education majors to work with culturally diverse populations and offers professional development to teachers at the school. At Riverton Elementary School in Portland, Maine, more than two dozen education majors are teaching hands-on, investigative activities to help 120 students learn about water resources, wildlife, and environmental issues. In the process, six of the school’s faculty are learning how to use the Project Learning Tree, Project WET and Project Wild curricula. The curricula also connect with reading and math, subjects critical to the school’s multicultural population where English is often a second language. “In a school where literacy is emphasized, our Saint Joseph’s students are showing that science can promote literacy in reading, writing, and inquiry,” says Rey. The grant allows Saint Joseph’s to purchase the curriculum material, guaranteeing sustainability of the project annually at this school or other sites, and supports the efforts of a student coordinator. “This is truly a golden opportunity for sophomores enrolled in a science methods course to teach science during the regular school day,” says Rey. In this educational partnership, everyone wins, including the planet! 6 S A I N T J O S E P H ’ S C O L L E G E M A G A Z I N E
In the footsteps of Paul Biblical scholar will retrace apostle’s path by Sadie Fenton ’10 T heology professor Steven Bridge received this year’s faculty development grant of $12,000, which will allow him to study abroad for weeks at a time over the next three years. Next spring, Dr. Bridge will go to Jerusalem for two months where he will begin his research on the Apostle Paul. He plans to travel through Turkey and Greece during his second year, and visit Rome during the third year. After finishing the two Dr. Steven Bridge books “Getting the Gospels” and “Getting the Old Testament,” Bridge hopes to complete his series with an installment on the Pauline letters. “I’m very excited,” he says. “I’ll be in the same towns where Paul stayed and see firsthand these places he wrote about.” Bridge wants to use his experience to make the Pauline literature more accessible to others. “The main goal is to understand [Paul’s] writing from an historical point of view. I’ll be able to put the letters in an historical context… and hopefully gain a better understanding and interpretation of them,” he says of his research. “The main goal is to understand [Paul’s] writing from an historical point of view.” Bridge’s aptly named grant proposal, “In the Footsteps of Paul,” details his desire to trace the movements of the apostle from his early ministry in Israel, through his missionary work in Turkey and Greece, and then to Rome, the final location of his ministry and where he was buried. Bridge will visit libraries, churches, and other sites mentioned in Paul’s writings to gain insight into the historical, cultural, geo-political, socio-economic, literary, philosophical and theological contexts that influenced the Pauline literature. “There’s actually a theater mentioned in many of the letters that is still standing,” Bridge mentions. “[This experience] will allow me to gain a better grasp of Paul’s mindset when he was writing. It’s really pretty cool.” Bridge hopes his pilgrimage will open doors for future students from Saint Joseph’s College to study abroad. By visiting a variety of areas, Bridge is determined to build local connections through which students can explore the culture and history outside of tourismgeared programs. He also plans to bring his experience into the classroom. “Through such venues as… a Pauline Literature course… I intend to share the fruits of my research experiences,” Bridge states. With the help of a colleague, Bridge discovered Tantur, the Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies in Jerusalem. Owned by the Catholic Church and leased to the University of Notre Dame, the institute welcomed him to reside at the institute as a visiting scholar. Dr. Steven Bridge’s latest book is “Getting the Old Testament,” which examines the importance of knowing the original historical, literary and cultural context of important passages found in the Old Testament. A U T U M N 2 0 0 9 7
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