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GRAPHIC: STEPHANIE SAVELA ’25/THE HAWK

University offers buyouts, voluntary separations ahead of reorganization

Ally Engelbert ’25, Editor-in-Chief April 2, 2025

St. Joe’s is offering voluntary tenure buyout and voluntary separation programs to full-time employees ahead of “more significant changes” for the university in the near future, according to a March...

GRAPHIC: LUKE SANELLI ’26/THE HAWK

St. Joe’s remembers Burt Douglas

Luke Sanelli ’26, News Editor March 26, 2025

Dozens of students, faculty and Aramark employees joined together March 20 for a memorial ceremony in honor of Burt Douglas. Douglas, who died suddenly at age 55 on Feb. 25, was an Aramark employee...

Jeff Wasch, Ed.D. ’28, coordinator for the St. Joe’s-Gompers partnership, on the playground at Samuel Gompers School. PHOTO: LUKE SANELLI ’26/THE HAWK

Meet Jeff Wasch: St. Joe’s Gompers partnership coordinator

Luke Sanelli ’26, News Editor March 26, 2025

Jeff Wasch, Ed.D. ’28, navigates through the dimly-lit cinder block hallways of Samuel Gompers School. It’s 3:15 p.m. on a mid-December Friday, so as students clad in their red uniform polos eagerly...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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