ϲ Blog — Carpe Futurum: The President's Blog /news/bay-path-university-blogs/ en-us BigTree CMS (http://www.bigtreecms.org/) The American Women's College Annual Rose Ceremony With joy and gratitude, on the weekend of May 14-15, we celebrated Commencement 2022, and for the first time since 2019, we were able to gather on campus for our Rose Ceremony. For years, my colleagues have been telling me how incredible it would be to attend this event in person, and still, I was not…

]]> /news/bay-path-university-blogs/post/the-american-women-s-college-annual-rose-ceremony/ contact@baypath.edu Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:00 EDT Looking at Lifelong Learning Happy 2022! This year, ϲ turns 125 years old, and throughout the year, we’ll be looking back and ahead, recognizing the special history of our school and reimagining what comes next. While reimagining education has been the ϲ way since 1897, this particular anniversary comes…

]]> /news/bay-path-university-blogs/post/looking-at-lifelong-learning/ contact@baypath.edu Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00:00 EST Looking ahead (and back) As our students, faculty and staff prepare to log off for what I hope is a restorative break, I am already excited to welcome them back for 2022, when we’ll be celebrating ϲ’s 125th year.

I wanted to use my last blog post of 2021 to offer a peek behind the scenes of our 125th celebration. Entering…

]]> /news/bay-path-university-blogs/post/looking-ahead-and-back/ contact@baypath.edu Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:00 EST We’re not “career-focused,” we’re “career-driven” ϲ is turning 125 years old next year, and we’re in the midst of ramping up for an exciting celebration tracing our growth and defining our goals for the coming years. As I’m immersing myself in ϲ’s history, I’m repeatedly struck by the uniqueness of our school and the long, unwavering consistency…

]]> /news/bay-path-university-blogs/post/we-re-not-career-focused-we-re-career-driven/ contact@baypath.edu Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 EDT Bring on the Quasquicentennial As summer winds down, we start to get that familiar, deeply ingrained sense that, although it's not December, a brand new year is about to begin. For all of us, emerging from a year and a half spent confronting a global pandemic, observing the disparate ways it's been experienced and realizing the potential…

]]> /news/bay-path-university-blogs/post/bring-on-the-quasquicentennial/ contact@baypath.edu Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00:00 EDT Learning Through A Pandemic (it’s not just for students) It’s been a year since I formally began my role as President at ϲ, and it has been a year filled with opportunities and challenges. As we embark upon the beginning of what looks to be the end of the pandemic, we are all emerging from the past 17 months, wearier perhaps, but definitely…

]]> /news/bay-path-university-blogs/post/learning-through-a-pandemic-it-s-not-just-for-students/ contact@baypath.edu Wed, 28 Jul 2021 00:00:00 EDT Prioritizing Student Parent Success: A Conversation with Lindsey Reichlin Cruse, Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Nearly a quarter (22%) of today's undergraduates or 3.8 million students are parents, with student mothers making up 70% of that number. At ϲ, approximately 20 percent of our undergraduate students are single mothers; a conservative estimate based on self-reported data. As we closed out May, a…

]]> /news/bay-path-university-blogs/post/prioritizing-student-parent-success-a-conversation-with-lindsey-reichlin-cruse-institute-for-women-s-policy-research/ contact@baypath.edu Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 EDT Guest blogger Gretchen Heaton: A career is a social justice issue, and it demands activism Years ago, when I was new to my position as a career coach at The American Women’s College, I asked an adult student what she wanted to do for her career. She paused for a second before answering, “No one’s ever asked me what I wanted to do. I’ve always just survived.”

I think about that student and…

]]> /news/bay-path-university-blogs/post/guest-blogger-gretchen-heaton-a-career-is-a-social-justice-issue-and-it-demands-activism/ contact@baypath.edu Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:00:00 EDT We’re preparing more women for work. Shouldn’t work be more prepared for women? Work has always been a women’s issue. Whether we work or not, the types of jobs we do, how much we are paid, and how far we can advance, it’s all shaped by our experiences as women and this, in turn, shapes the central mission at ϲ. Every single one of our courses and degree programs is deliberately…

]]> /news/bay-path-university-blogs/post/we-re-preparing-more-women-for-work-shouldn-t-work-be-more-prepared-for-women/ contact@baypath.edu Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:00:00 EDT Seeing Moments as Movements and Students as Leaders Understanding and expressing our personal perspectives and goals and then finding ways to apply them to systemic progress and change; this mission lies at the heart of the ϲ experience. This year, as we celebrate Black History Month and acknowledge so many triumphs and contributions, it seems…

]]> /news/bay-path-university-blogs/post/seeing-moments-as-movements-and-students-as-leaders/ contact@baypath.edu Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 EST On point, online: How and why we need to bring women’s colleges to more women In my last post, I cited extensive research that looked at today’s women’s college students and found they’re older, more diverse and less economically advantaged than all other college students, and yet, they graduate at similar rates to students at private liberal arts schools, a population that tends…

]]> /news/bay-path-university-blogs/post/on-point-online-how-and-why-we-need-to-bring-women-s-colleges-to-more-women/ contact@baypath.edu Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00:00 EST A Dream of One’s Own: Why Women’s Colleges Matter More Than Ever Last week, I sat down to write about compelling new data showing how effectively women’s colleges are serving our students. The data revealed that as the American population grows more and more diverse, women’s colleges are where you will find the truest representation of our nation’s multicultural,…

]]> /news/bay-path-university-blogs/post/a-dream-of-one-s-own-why-women-s-colleges-matter-more-than-ever/ contact@baypath.edu Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:00:00 EST How Strange Days Will Lead Us to a Strong Future Hello! Welcome to my official blog as President of ϲ. I’ll be using this space to share ideas, research, and perspectives connected to ϲ and our unique role as an innovative, transformative institution. Through this blog, I hope to encourage dialogue and inspire critical thinking…

]]> /news/bay-path-university-blogs/post/how-strange-days-will-lead-us-to-a-strong-future/ contact@baypath.edu Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:00:00 EST