Our theme for 2020-21 is “co-creating a new normal.” Life in a pandemic sure doesn’t feel “normal” and our new ways of doing things are complex, unfamiliar, and sometimes stressful....
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St. Stephen’s University has always focused on helping students understand their place in the world, and develop skills to help change the world for the better. Committed to values of…
*This blog was originally shared June 2, 2020 on Dr. Thiessen's blog. The original form has been adapted by the author.* This summer, I am researching and writing about...
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During the study abroad programs in South East Asia and Europe, our students here at SSU interact with linguistic and cultural communities vastly different from their own. They have opportunities...
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At SSU, we are in the process of identifying what community engagement means for us. We are a university committed to justice, beauty and compassion; how does that aspirational identity…
Over the last 6 years I’ve spent much of my time considering SSU’s proposition to potential students: My main goal was to find the intersection of two things: Firstly, what…
We’re excited to announce that Dr. Nadya Pohran will be joining us at the end of the coming summer, preparing to lead our next Asia study abroad trip that fall….
As soon as our (SSU’s) new focus on community engagement and innovation started to take hold, what excited me was the sense that we had found the missing piece. Here…
As the 21st century proceeds, there is a longing in academia to make bridges to a “real” world, to connect abstract ideas to the places where people actually live. At…
I was at a conference recently and one of the participants made a comment that really resonates with me. He said, “it works well in practice, but does it work…
