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Ursula Lindqvist: Distinctive Pursuits Rooted in our Heritage
In Scandinavian corporate and agrarian cultures, teamwork and collaboration are highly valued—even expected—and the same is true at Gustavus. Faculty, staff, and students are highly…
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Gregory Aune: Distinctive Pursuits Rooted in our Heritage
The curriculum of the Music Department at Gustavus aspires to teach all students who study music here or participate in ensembles to express themselves intelligently…
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Scott Bur: Distinctive Pursuits Rooted in our Heritage
By offering our students both a world-class education in math and science and substantive reflection on ethics, religion, and their own vocations, Gustavus prepares all…
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Kathi Tunheim: National and International Connections Facilitated by our Lutheran Affiliation
We are colleges and universities of the ELCA. Our common calling is to be excellent schools that educate students for lives of meaning and purpose…
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Justin Knoepfel: National and International Connections Facilitated by our Lutheran Affiliation
By attending national or international venues that bring together representatives from a wide range of religiously-affiliated institutions, members of our community are bound to bring…
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Mary Gaebler: National and International Connections Facilitated by our Lutheran Affiliation
A college like Gustavus, identified as it is with the Lutheran tradition, can freely welcome and encourage the cultural and religious differences that a diverse…
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Joyce Sutphen: Poetry, People, and Sense of Place
What affection I have for the earth, for the meadow already gone to golden, for the burnt-orange reeds of the cattails, for the maple leaves’…
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James Patrick Miller: Poetry, People, and Sense of Place
Each year new “Gusties” step into the stories that resonate in the college’s halls, guiding and nurturing them, and hopefully strengthening their capacity to contribute…
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Matt Panciera: Teaching, Scholarship, and Service
In many ways writing still stands at the core of the intellectual experience in my courses. In writing they experience learning as a more solitary…
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Tom LoFaro: Teaching, Scholarship, and Service
Probably the most effective way to engage students is to be enthusiastic about the material. I believe that I am exceptionally passionate about mathematics at…
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