The Princeton Review named Saint Michael’s one of the country’s best institutions for undergraduate education, in its new 2010 edition The Best 371 Colleges. Only about 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges are profiled in the book.
Saint Michael’s is one of 10 four-year colleges nationwide with student populations under 2,999 deemed a “Great College to Work For” based on a survey conducted by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Dennis Voigt, associate professor of accounting, was named the first appointment to the David LaMarche ’69 Endowed Chair. LaMarche, emeritus professor of business administration and accounting, was featured speaker at the induction ceremony, where he honored the chair’s benefactors, the late Edmund Cashman ’58 and his wife, Susan.
U.S. News and World Report ranked Saint Michael’s as the105th in the Best (national) Liberal Arts Colleges in its 2010 listing of American colleges and universities. Saint Michael’s position was bolstered by an excellent graduation rate, freshman retention rate, percentage of full-time faculty and SAT scores.
The Applied Linguistics Department has secured an extension of a federal grant for two additional cohorts of students from Latin America to study at Saint Michael’s as part of the Undergraduate Intensive English Language Study Program, sponsored by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Alain Brizard, associate professor of physics, has been invited to speak at the international workshop Hamiltonian Approaches of ITER Physics in Marseille (France) in November. He has also been invited as a Visiting Fellow to the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge University) to speak and teach at the workshop Gyrokinetics in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas in Cambridge (U.K.) August of 2010.
Jerry Flanagan ‘71, vice president for enrollment, wrote an article entitled “High School Activities Play Role in College Admission,” which appeared in the May 2009 issue of High School Today magazine, a publication of the National Federation of State High School Associations billing itself as “the voice of education-based athletic and fine arts activities.”
Crystal L’Hote, assistant professor of philosophy, was one of 15 scholars awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to participate in a six-week summer seminar on metaphysics and mind. The seminar, directed by John Heil, took place in June and July at Washington University in St. Louis.
John Payne, director of library and information services, became the president of the Vermont Library Association. Payne will chair the executive board of the VLA, which includes several hundred academic, public, corporate, legal and medical librarians in the state.
Several sports greats of the past were inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame on October 9. Legendary athletic director and coach George “Doc” Jacobs and former Purple Knight players Fran Laffin ’74 and Anthony Nicodemo ’59 were honored at the fifth induction ceremony at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn. Former Saint Michael’s player Charlie Titus ’72 was recognized as a Division III coach at UMass-Boston.
The Boston Globe reported on Father Ray Doherty ’51, SSE, being inducted into the Saint Michael’s College Athletic Hall of Fame. Fr. Ray grew up in Boston and graduated from Sacred Heart High School there.
