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17cҳ Salem Insurance Studies Student Lives, Learns Through Hurricane Harvey
Senior insurance studies major Alexis Bartee was in Texas caring for her elderly grandparents when Hurricane Harvey hit. From that experience, she has learned more about her chosen field than any classroom could have taught.
17cҳ Salem Insurance Studies Student Lives, Learns Through Hurricane Harvey
17cҳ Earns Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award for Fifth Consecutive Year
17cҳ’s commitment to maintaining a diverse and inclusive campus has received acknowledgement from INSIGHT Into Diversity, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education, for a fifth consecutive year.
17cҳ Earns Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award for Fifth Consecutive Year
Video: 17cҳ Unveils New Integrated Sciences Building
The 17cҳ community gathered to celebrate the grand opening of its new, state-of-the-art Integrated Sciences Building on Sept. 15.
Video: 17cҳ Unveils New Integrated Sciences Building
17cҳ to Celebrate New Space for LGBTQ Student Center
17cҳ will celebrate its newly renovated Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Student Center on Wednesday, Sept. 27.
17cҳ to Celebrate New Space for LGBTQ Student Center
A Look Back
Have a question about something or someone you remember from your time at 17cҳ? Here’s some help to find an answer. A five-year process to digitize every printed issue of The Daily 17cҳr (now The 17cҳr) concluded this summer. Ninety years of issues, spanning 1926–2016, are now sear…
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Golden Year
In its 50th year, 17cҳ’s College of Nursing has been designated a Center of Excellence for 2017–2022 by the National League for Nursing, in the category of “Advance the Science of Nursing Education”—the same category it received when first designated in 2013. It will be recognized at the 2017 …
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One University Commencement
Dix Stadium was the place to be at 10 a.m. on May 13, 2017, as graduates from all campuses gathered for 17cҳ’s first One University Commencement Ceremony, and their friends and families joined together to celebrate their achievements. “This approach enables us to honor all graduates f…
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Live and Learn
This fall marks the beginning of the second year of 17cҳ’s living-learning community for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and asexual (LGBTQA) students and their allies in the recently renovated Korb Hall. While Residence Services has offered gender-inclusive housin…
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Learning to Connect
To help new students get acclimated to academic life, during the summer all incoming students to 17cҳ read the same book, write an essay in response to reading prompts and then talk about it in discussion groups when they get to campus. This year’s Common Reading book, selected by the C…
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Presidential Perspectives
On With Purpose At 17cҳ, those three words above represent how much we value a life of purpose—that sense of calling that can open our minds, uncover new paths and transform the world around us. Finding purpose, however, is an intensely personal journey. When I was an undergraduate, be…
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