The difficulties of social distancing and stay-at-home orders have created unique challenges and differences from normal across the St. Thomas community. Thatโs especially true for Muslim community members during the holiday of Ramadan.
Several businesses offer paid internships to DFC students as part of the school's Professional Internship Program. U.S. Bank was an original supporter and sponsors the most students, 14, of any business.
Life on St. Thomasโ St. Paul and Minneapolis campuses looks more different lately than it ever has before. They are far, however, from empty: Some 125 students continue to live in St. Paul residence halls, and dozens of essential staff continue to work in both St. Paul and Minneapolis.
As high school graduation approaches, more and more students are making decisions on higher education enrollment. St. Thomasโ Admissions Department has made major changes to ensure prospective students and their families are getting the support they need as they navigate the challenges of COVID-19.
St. Thomas Graduate Programs in Software studentsย Himanshu Gamit and Jacob Noble were on Tuesday named the winners of the annualย SAS Global Forum Student Symposium competition.
With such a massive amount of work to move St. Thomasโ curriculum online in the past several weeks, some priorities for faculty could have gotten lost in the shuffle. Faculty engagement and recent seminars from Faculty Development Center (FDC) and STELAR are signs that equity and inclusion in online learning will not be one of those things.
Meaningful work and how graduates might take this opportunity to find work that advances the common good is the focus of the May 7 virtual postgraduation fair, co-hosted by the Center for the Common Good and the Career Development Center.
Dougherty Family College students, faculty and staff have taken a program built on high-touch, close connections and relationships, and completely shifted it online due to COVID-19.
The Chronicle of Higher Education produced a video special on April 14 about Dougherty Family College, highlighting the school's academic rigor, cohort model and culturally sustaining pedagogy.ย
The spread of coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease it causes has had an unprecedented impact on life around the globe. Within the St. Thomas community, that impact is being felt in a myriad of ways, including in a full shift to online learning.
The tactile diagram scanner, a School of Engineering Design Clinic project that recently was donated to the Minnesota State Services for the Blind, is a case study in the importance of communication.
Life at St. Thomas is an ongoing feature highlighting the images that capture what daily life on campus is like and what it feels like to a Tommie. Check out some of the amazing images from St. Thomas photograp...
Two growing student clubs, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and the National Society of Black Engineers, are offering opportunities and community for St. Thomas students of color in STEM fields.
More than 300 St. Thomas first-year students have done something no Tommies have ever done before: Theyโve dedicated their J-Terms to a First-Year Experience at St. Thomas.
St. Thomasโ School of Education is constantly working to help increase the number of teachers of color in the classroom through various partnerships, including two with state-funded teaching preparation programs โ Collaborative Urban and Greater Minnesota Educators of Color, and Grow Your Own.
Hundreds of St. Thomas students, faculty and staff filled O'Shaughnessy Educational Center auditorium on Tuesday to hear Dr. Derald Wing Sue speak about microaggressions.
A lot of amazing moments happened at St. Thomas in 2019. St. Thomas photographers Mark Brown and Liam James Doyle selected some of their favorite images from last calendar year.
In the two years since the opening of St. Thomas' Veterans Resource Center, countless veteran students have had their campus experience changed for the better.
Senior mechanical engineering major and St. Thomas swim and dive team member Lucas Manke was recently named top cadet in the nation by the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps, which follows Savannah Johnson being named Air Force ROTC's top cadet in the nation less than a year ago.