Posted on October 8, 2024
How La Vida Prepares Gordon College Students for Academic and Life Success
Why does Gordon require such a strenuous achievement for students? Newly minted faculty member Abby Stroven explains the methodology behind La Vida and how it has impacted thousands of Gordon students for the better.
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Posted on October 1, 2024
Q&A with Steve Nelson, Inaugural Dean of the School of Business
Get to know the helm of the new School of Business, who came to Gordon following a lengthy tenure at Harvard Business School, most recently serving as senior director of external relations and executive director of the MBA Program.
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Posted on September 30, 2024
Ready to Listen, Learning to Talk: CFI’s First Event Encourages Constructive Conversations Across Differences
On September 19 CFI hosted its first event of the fall semester, featuring four faculty members from various departments who talked about being self-aware in dialogue and how to have difficult conversations with people who are different from us.
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Posted on September 18, 2024
Integrating Faith and Social Work: Gordon College’s New MSW 4+1 Partnership
Gordon College is partnering with Roberts Wesleyan University and Dordt University to create a new 4+1 Master of Social Work program that allows social welfare majors in the School of Psychology and Human Services to complete a master's degree in five years.
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Posted on September 17, 2024
Demystifying the Reading Landscape
Ellen Ballock, Ph.D. and Priscilla Nelson ‘74, Ed.D. of the Herschend School of Education share their insights into the literacy crisis in America—and how Gordon is using the science of reading to combat it.
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Posted on July 31, 2024
Uncovering Ancient Manuscripts: Dr. Graeme Bird’s Exploration of The Iliad
Dr. Graeme Bird studied several newly discovered papyrus fragments of The Iliad over his sabbatical last semester, exploring the connection between Homer’s poetry, oral history, faith and jazz improvisation.
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Posted on July 30, 2024
Gordon College Welcomes North Shore Christian School to Campus
North Shore Christian School will be renting space on Gordon's campus this fall to host classes for its students. As a continuation of a decades-long partnership between two institutions integrating faith and learning, this development holds many benefits for both schools, their communities and the North Shore area.
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Posted on July 22, 2024
Mimicking Nature: Dr. Kristen Siaw's Innovative Sabbatical Research
Dr. Kristen Siaw, assistant professor of physics and chemistry, spent the last year on two different sabbaticals conducting research on Gordon’s campus and at Boston University in zinc oxide and microfluidics.
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Posted on July 15, 2024
The Hidden Math in Everyday Life: Dr. Karl-Dieter Crisman’s Research on Cyclic Orders
Dr. Karl-Dieter Crisman, along with former research students Abraham Holleran ’22, Micah Martin ’21 and Josephine Noonan ’23 recently published a research article in "Mathematical Analyses of Decisions, Voting and Games," Volume 795, of Contemporary Mathematics, a well-known series of conference proceedings in academic math.
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Posted on July 1, 2024
Gordon in Orvieto’s 25th Anniversary: A Pilgrimage Through Faith and Culture
On June 13-14, more than 100 students, faculty and staff of the Gordon in Orvieto program traveled back to the Italian hill city to celebrate the program’s 25th anniversary.
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Posted on June 20, 2024
Creating Pathways to Peace: Gordon's Collaborative Efforts for Global Harmony
Gordon and the European Center for the Study of War and Peace (ECSWP)—the host for Gordon’s Balkans semester—recently completed a pioneering practical peacemaking initiative funded by a grant from the Lilly Fellows Program involving schools like Harvard University and Messiah University to incorporate peacemaking into curricula and student life of their universities.
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Posted on June 13, 2024
24 in 24: Highlights from the 2023–24 Academic Year at Gordon
Let's look back! From groundbreaking research to the spreading of Shalom to athletic triumphs, 2024 was a memorable journey for the Gordon College community. In recognition of the faithful collaboration that makes our community unique, let’s revisit 24 highlights from the 2023–24 academic year.
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