How Arthur Haywood uses art to create change
In 2020, St. Joe’s partnered with Global Philadelphia Association to design an art mural on campus to raise awareness for quality education, which is...
Microaggressions in entertainment
“Ginny & Georgia” has been in the Top 10 on Netflix since its release on Feb. 24. It follows 15-year-old Virginia (Ginny) Miller and her mother, Georgia, as they...
A call to action for increased female representation
On Sept. 18, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. While she lived a long life with an incredible career, it left many women, including...
The importance of black people in sci-fi and fantasy
I am a professed comic book nerd as well as a lover of all things science fiction and fantasy. Growing up, I read “The Lord of the Rings,” “The...
A recent study conducted by the Women’s Nonprofit Leadership Initiative (WNLI) on the gender gap in boardrooms of higher education institutions in the Philadelphia area reported the St. Joe’s board...
The lack of female diversity in positions of power
On the St. Joe’s board of 35 trustees, 7 are women. And the chair of the board, Edward J. Moneypenny, graduated from St. Joe’s in 1964, only six years...
Zenobia Hargust, Ph.D., has been appointed as the new Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Hargust spent the last seven years at Swarthmore College as the Director of Equal Opportunity & Employee...
Elections for the 19th University Student Senate (USS) will take place April 10 and 11. Current students in each class year will vote for class senators and elect executive board members, comprised...
Review committee to release recommendations
The Governance Review Committee (GRC) is set to make a final recommendation about changing the university’s governance structure in May.
The committee,...
Faculty presentation addresses race curriculum
As part of university efforts to help faculty create conversations about race in St. Joe’s classrooms, Ann Green Ph.D., professor of English, presented...
Author speaks about underrepresented women
Award-winning author and former St. Joe’s adjunct professor, Carmen Maria Machado did a reading from her book of short stories, “Her Body and Other Parties.”
Machado...
