Medaille College’s third annual Pathways to Service Event took place on Saturday, December 1. Pathways Program students and staff, along with Medaille College Board of Trustees member Howard K.
“The knowledge and confidence I gained because of Medaille has made teaching early readers and writers the best part of my school day.”
WKBW-TV Sports Anchor and Multimedia Journalist Jenna Callari visited Medaille's Buffalo campus on November 15 to speak to students in Clinical Associate Professor
“No program or curriculum can replace the expertise of a knowledgeable literacy teacher.”
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, Medaille College hosted a presentation by Rick Hill on November 19 exploring how the Great Law of Peace of the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) influenced the Founding Fathers, Karl Marx and the Women’s Suffragette Movement. This presentation, sponsored by the Medaille College Office of Diversity and Inclusion, examined how Indigenous thought and philosophy impacted the minds of these leaders of social change. Watch “Did Our Modern Democracy Come From an Ancient Indigenous Culture?” in its entirety below.
Medaille recognized adjunct faculty members at its Adjunct Recognition Reception on November 12. The Adult & Graduate Buffalo Campus Adjunct Faculty Award was presented to Nicholas LaMarca, while Ashley Lewis received the Undergraduate Buffalo Campus Adjunct Faculty Award. Nominees included Carmen Martorana (Adult & Graduate Buffalo Campus Award) and Daniel Blum, Jon Elston, Tera Domaradzki and Jessica Whipple (Undergraduate Buffalo Campus Award).
The reception was sponsored by the Employment Engagement Committee.
While a student in Medaille ‘s M.S.Ed. (Master of Science in Education), literacy program, Lindsay MacKay ’17 was taught the value of preparation. Now a teaching assistant at Cleveland Hill Elementary School, she puts the skills she learned at Medaille to use each day.
Here, MacKay explains what drew her to College's literacy program, and she describes how her education prepared her for the day-to-day responsibilities of managing a classroom.
Internationally recognized behavioral couples therapy (BCT) expert Keith Klostermann, Ph.D., LMFT, LMHC, an assistant professor in Medaille’s master’s in marriage and family therapy program, has been approached to develop a TED-Ed talk. TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas via talks and conferences. The goal of TED-Ed, TED’s youth and education initiative, is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world.
The second episode of “Q Me In,” a radio show hosted by Medaille College Vice President for Academic Affairs Lori V. Quigley, Ph.D. is now available to download. Joining Dr. Quigley were Medaille Director of TRiO Student Support Services Hugh O. Burnam and Director of Upward Bound Programs Adriana Viverette ’12. “Q Me In” is produced by Medaille communication student Stephanie Zawadski. Watch for more episodes soon.
Acclaimed children’s book illustrator London Ladd presented his work and discussed his creative process during a Write Thing Reading Series event at Medaille’s Buffalo campus on Thursday, November 8.