Posted on April 5, 2024
Driving Diversity: Dr. Michelle Loyd-Paige on Challenges, Strategies and Solutions
At a Center for Faith and Inquiry (CFI) event on Tuesday, March 26, Dr. Michelle Loyd-Paige—author of The Diversity Playbook and a 30-year veteran in the diversity education field—talked about the different levels of diversity, the struggles against it and how to practically take action to establish it.
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Posted on April 3, 2024
Championing Elder Equality: Abigail Butt ’05 Advocates for Aging Communities
Abigail Butt ’05, M.Sc., Ph.D., studied psychology at Gordon and is now the director of the Lincoln Council on Aging & Human Services. We sat down with her to ask about her job working in a government municipality and her passion for helping people.
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Posted on February 8, 2024
From Greed to Grace: Michael O’Siadhail’s Poetry Sheds Insight on Human Desire
On February 5 the Center for Faith and Inquiry and the Princemere Writers Series collaborated to invite Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail, who presented his own approach to navigating questions of self and service—poetry. An internationally acclaimed and award-winning sonneteer, his newest book Desire asks, what is it that we really desire, and what is truly worth desiring?
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Posted on May 24, 2022
Gordon College Mourns the Loss of Trustee Roberto Miranda
Dr. Miranda served on Gordon’s Board of Trustees and contributed to the campus community in many significant ways.
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Posted on May 2, 2022
Hammond’s Inauguration Celebrates Gordon Legacy
On Friday, April 29, 2022, Gordon College marked the inauguration of ninth president Dr. Michael D. Hammond in a celebration themed, “Strength for today, bright hope for tomorrow.”
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Posted on March 7, 2022
Serving Students: Meet Dr. Jennifer Skaggs, New VP for Student Life
Gordon College welcomes seasoned higher education and student development leader Dr. Jennifer Skaggs as new vice president.
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Posted on May 19, 2021
Leading with Love: Getting to Know Gordon’s Ninth President
Dr. Mike Hammond, along with his wife and six kids, spent three blustery days on Gordon’s campus as the college officially announced him the ninth president last month.
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Posted on April 22, 2021
Gordon College Announces Ninth President, Dr. Michael D. Hammond
An accomplished scholar and proven leader with 25 years’ experience in Christian higher education, Dr. Hammond will begin his tenure at Gordon on July 1, 2021.
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Posted on March 3, 2021
No One Leaves the Woods Unchanged
From 1996 until present day, a group of independent researchers have put outdoor orientation programs (OOPs), aimed at helping first-year students transition to college, to the test. En masse, they interviewed 36 trip leaders and 1,581 participants to see not only if they had changed, but to determine how.
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Posted on February 3, 2021
Boardroom to Classroom: Career Executive Joins Economics and Business Faculty
Business and marketing executive, nonprofit board member, lifelong learner. Meet the newest ECB faculty member, Greg Smith.
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Posted on February 8, 2020
Finding Her Voice Underground and Up Front
JABEZ ’21 | Majors: finance and economics | From: China | Most admires: “my father—he has the strongest faith I have ever seen.”
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Posted on October 16, 2019
Split Peas and Asylees
In Portland, Maine, last spring, a number of food production workers stopped washing their hands, and it was Abbey Mitchell’s job to find out why.
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