Are you Career Ready?

In 2014, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) established a task force of college career service and community human resource professionals to research and define the term “career ready” and establish measurable competencies. The goal of the task force was to establish a list of competencies that would define career readiness for college

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The Colors of Collioure

A week ago, we came together for the first time, meeting at the airport in Toulouse, France. Coming from different Dominican colleges, we shared a common foundation before the journey, our heritage rooted in the values first articulated by St. Dominic 800 years ago. Over the course of the past week, I am sure I

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Grateful for So Many Things

This will be a double entry, as I am sitting to write this blog on Monday evening, the 15th. Yesterday, the 14th, we had a wonderful Sunday, beginning with Mass and then a trip to walk through a cave with wall paintings dating back more than 13,000 years.   After the long bus trip back

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A Day Spent in “La Ville Rose”

Today, our pilgrimage took us to the city of Toulouse, which dates back to the 2nd century and today is France’s 4th largest. In France, the city is referred to as “La Ville Rose,” as most of its buildings were constructed from pink hued bricks built from the clay that is found in the river that flows

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Walking Across the Gate to the Middle Ages

We’ve just returned from our day in Carcassonne, the last remaining fortified city in France. Perhaps intuitively, a fortified city is just as it sounds, meaning it’s a city completely surrounded or enclosed by walls, accessible only from a main gate and typically protected not just by walls, but by one or more moats. In

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Reflection through Fanjeaux’s Rolling Hills

Last night, after traveling to France from different parts of the United States, the Dominican college presidents and others making the pilgrimage came together for the first time, sharing dinner and conversation, full of anticipation for the week’s experiences. This morning we began with a classroom session, during which we were given an overview of

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Graced by a Neighbor in the Community

In this first year of serving as president at Albertus Magnus College, I’ve discovered that the time demands on a president’s schedule are many. My days most often are filled from morning to evening with appointments and meetings, on and off campus. And frankly, I wouldn’t want it any other way. For me to have

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Athletic #AlbertusSuccessStory

Every coach I have ever had mentioned at one point the importance of communication on the field. It could be the difference between winning and losing, they would always say. Maturing on the soccer field as a player over the years, I continued to learn what it meant to communicate productively on the field. Instruction

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