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SMCM Newsroom > Archives for Gretchen Phillips

Public Safety Officer Gerald Sellers Named Officer of the Year

May 22, 2018

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Officer Gerald Sellers was among 12 law enforcement officers to receive an officer of the year award at the 18th annual law enforcement appreciation day ceremony held Tuesday, May 8 at the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center. Sellers has been a public safety officer for the College since October 2014. He currently serves as senior Find out more »

Filed Under: Campus & Community, Featured News, Laurels Tagged With: Featured on SMCM's Home Page, Office of Public Safety

St. Mary’s College of Maryland Announces New Scholarship Program

May 22, 2018

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St. Mary’s College of Maryland is pleased to announce the creation of the Landers Scholars Program, made possible with the generous support of the Arthur E. Landers Jr. and Hilda C. Landers Charitable Trust. The scholarship program will provide full financial support and one-on-one mentoring to four under-represented, low-income and/or first-generation students each year, beginning Find out more »

Filed Under: Campus & Community, Featured News Tagged With: Featured on SMCM's Home Page, Scholarships

St. Mary’s College of Maryland Ranks No. 1 among Peace Corps’ top volunteer-producing small colleges

February 22, 2018

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In its 2018 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list, the Peace Corps announced this week that St. Mary’s College of Maryland is ranked no. 1 among small schools. This is the second consecutive year St. Mary’s College of Maryland has ranked among the top five small-sized schools. SMCM ranked No. 4 last year. “Peace Corps Find out more »

Filed Under: Featured News, Students and Alumni Tagged With: Featured on SMCM's Home Page, Office of Alumni Relations

Andrew Cognard-Black published in Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council

February 7, 2018

Andrew Cognard-Black

Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology Andrew Cognard-Black recently co-authored the article “Institutional Variability in Honors Admissions Standards, Program Support Structures, and Student Characteristics, Persistence, and Program Completion” in the most recent volume of the Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council. Patricia J. Smith and April L. Dove were co-authors. Cognard-Black joined the faculty at St. Find out more »

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Faculty & Staff, Featured News, Laurels Tagged With: Featured on SMCM's Home Page, Laurels, Sociology

Prof. Julia King receives prestigious award in archaeology

January 22, 2018

Julia King

At a conference among 1,400 of her peers, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Professor of Anthropology Julia A. King was named the 2018 recipient of the Society of Historical Archaeology’s most prestigious award in recognition of her contributions to archaeology spanning decades. Established in 1981, the J. C. Harrington Award is named in honor of Find out more »

Filed Under: Accomplishments, Faculty & Staff, Featured News, Laurels Tagged With: Anthropology, Featured on SMCM's Home Page, Laurels

BB&T sponsors Bookbag to Briefcase at St. Mary’s College of Maryland

December 6, 2017

Tuajuanda C. Jordan, president of St. Mary’s College of Maryland (right), accepts a check for the Bookbag to Briefcase program from BB&T. The check was presented by Elizabeth Snyder, vice president at BB&T, St. Mary’s County region.

  St. Mary’s College of Maryland recognizes BB&T and Regional President Chris Holt ’86 for supporting the College’s Bookbag to Briefcase program as the title sponsor for the 2017-18 academic year. The Bookbag to Briefcase program, formed several years ago, is designed to connect St. Mary’s College students with industry experts in small group settings. “This program Find out more »

Filed Under: Campus & Community, Grants and Gifts, Students and Alumni Tagged With: Career Development Center, Community, giving

Students Compete for Piece of $10,000 in Alumni Council Challenge this Giving Tuesday

November 21, 2017

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  In an effort to encourage more student involvement this Giving Tuesday, Nov. 28, the St. Mary’s College of Maryland Alumni Council rallied together to donate over $10,000 to award to student clubs and teams as part of a video challenge to share why they love St. Mary’s College. The clubs and teams that create Find out more »

Filed Under: Campus & Community, Featured News Tagged With: Featured on SMCM's Home Page

Jazz and democracy workshops continue at St. Mary’s College of Maryland

November 6, 2017

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St. Mary’s College of Maryland will host the Spirit of Jazz & Democracy workshop, “Jazz is Democracy,” November 15 from 4:45 to 6 p.m., in the Aldom Lounge of the Campus Center. In this session, master drummer Paul F. Murphy, jazz historian and drummer Dominic Fragman ’07, and philosopher Sybol Anderson examine the relationship between Find out more »

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Campus & Community, Featured News, Music Tagged With: Democracy Studies, Featured on SMCM's Home Page, Music

Eberly to discuss new book on Trump administration

October 26, 2017

The Trump Presidency: Outsider in the Oval Office Book Cover

On Tuesday, Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Daugherty-Palmer Commons at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Todd Eberly, associate professor of political science, will talk about “The Trump Presidency: Outsider in the Oval Office,” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) a recently released book he co-authored with Steven E. Schier. The book offers context and insight grounded Find out more »

Filed Under: Announcements, Faculty & Staff, Featured News, Publications & Projects Tagged With: Featured on SMCM's Home Page, Political Science

SMCM Students Kick off Semester with Community Service

September 14, 2017

They moved in on a Thursday afternoon. Two days later, approximately 400 new students were volunteering in the community for Seahawk Service Day. Organized by senior Whittni Pickens, Seahawk Service Day included projects at Point Lookout State Park, Trinity Episcopal Church, Calvert Marine Museum, Historic St. Mary’s City, St. Mary’s River Watershed Association, Little Flower Find out more »

Filed Under: Community Accomplishments, Community Affairs and Initiatives, Featured News, Students and Alumni Tagged With: Community service, Featured on SMCM's Home Page

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