M.F.A. Musings

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention… -Shakespeare, from the prologue to Henry V   O Muse! the causes and the crimes relate… -Dryden’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Line Eight As I read the variety of final manuscripts produced by our M.F.A. graduates in poetry, fiction and creative

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What Should Leaders Do About Conflict?

Kevin Nash, PhD Conflict is natural and necessary and it has the potential to be beneficial or destructive. An important role of organizational and community leaders is to leverage conflict towards productive ends. When effectively managed, conflict has the potential to promote individual and professional development and enhance performance outcomes. Unresolved conflict, on the other

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Russians and Chechens

Historical context helps us to better understand the world behind today’s headlines. The ethnicity of the Tsarnaev brothers, accused of the bombing of the Boston Marathon in April, 2013, has generated commentary about Chechnya and the Russian wars since the 1990’s to subjugate this mountainous region. The historical context of this news reporting has been

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Albertus Legacy – A Mother’s Dream

Legacy students at Albertus are those with a family member who has graduated from the College. The tradition goes back to the earliest days of Albertus: a member of the class of 1929 – the second graduating class – had a sister who graduated in 1936, a daughter who graduated in 1955 and a granddaughter

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