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Arcadia University News
March 1, 2021
Dr. Riggan Publishes on “Risky” Eritrean Migration to Europe
Arcadia University Professor of International Studies in Historical and Political Studies Dr. Jennifer Riggan has researched for years on Eritrea’s policies in terms of nationalism, education, and refugee migrations. Her most recent piece on the subject, about why refugees from the East Africa...
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February 16, 2021
McCreery ’20 Monitors COVID Patients in One-of-a-Kind Virtual Response Center
As hospitals continue to combat COVID-19, Political Science graduate Steven McCreery ’20 has taken on a unique role as a virtual monitoring tech for St. Luke's University Health Network in their virtual response center in Allentown, Pa. With the center’s opening on Dec. 19, McCreery is among the...
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November 11, 2020
McCreery Encourages Students to Understand “Strategic Nonviolence” in First-Year Seminar
By Nikolai Kachuyevski '21 For Allyson McCreery , who has been teaching "Strategic Nonviolence & Civil Disobedience" since 2013, it is important that her students come away with the tools necessary to be able to assess civil resistance movements: how they’re organized and what components make...
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October 28, 2020
March for Our Lives Speaker, Lopez ’24 Find Passion in Politics
First-year Politics, Government and Law major Alejandro Lopez ‘24 has been following his passion for politics and activism long before he started at Arcadia University. In March 2018, Lopez was a speaker at March for Our Lives in Philadelphia, sharing the stage with Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey...
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October 13, 2020
Through Fellowship, Dr. Riggan to Research Refugee Choices
By Aaron Uscinowicz '22 Through a Regional Faculty Fellowship with the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Jennifer Riggan , professor of Historical and Political Studies at Arcadia University, will study how refugee choices are made across the contexts of time and space,...
September 30, 2020
Arcadia Community Reflects on Legacy of Justice Ginsburg
“[Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg] was one of the best advocates of all time,” said Dr. Alison LaLond Wyant , director of the Office of Social Impact and Innovation (SI 2 ) and director of Arcadia’s Civic Scholars program. “I think her legacy will be her ability to connect liberty and equality as...
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August 31, 2020
Race, Justice, and Policing: An Outline for Reform
Arcadia University, in partnership with the Montgomery County Racial Justice Improvement Task Force and the Cheltenham Branch of the NAACP, will host a virtual symposium on Saturday, Sept. 12. The symposium’s purpose is to further the current dialogue about race and the criminal justice system. But...
May 25, 2020
Remembering Veterans on Memorial Day
Dr. Peter Siskind Associate Provost for Finance and Planning Years at Arcadia: 16 Expertise: post-World War II American political and urban/suburban history Advice to students: “I'm a big fan of complexity. It's a trait of a lot of historians, to try to not reduce things to single causes or single...
March 5, 2020
Visiting Professor Kemisso Explores Education Equality for Refugees
“Education is not only a right, but it’s also an enabling right,” said Dr. Alebachew Kemisso , a visiting professor at Arcadia and director of the Centre for Comparative Education and Policy Studies at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. “For refugees, if we keep them out of education, we...
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February 21, 2020
Fulbright Helps Long ’17 Find Career Path
Cliff Long ’17 Bachelor of Arts in Political Science 2017 English Teaching Assistant Fulbright Award Recipient 2015 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Recipient If you had asked Cliff Long '17 in 2013 what he imagined doing after graduation, the answer wouldn’t have been teaching...
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February 6, 2020
Nedbal ’17M Member of Inaugural Peace Corps Cohort to Montenegro
International Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) alumnus Michael Nedbal ’17M is one of 12 volunteers who departed to the Balkan nation of Montenegro on the inaugural Peace Corps cohort on Jan. 17. As an IPCR student, Nedbal fell in love with Thailand while studying abroad at Mahidol University in...
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December 9, 2019
Honors Students Present on Holocaust, Migrant Children, and First Amendment at National Conference
Four students presented at the 54th National Collegiate Honors Conference (NCHC) in New Orleans from Nov. 6 to 10 on the rescue efforts of Jewish people during the Holocaust, the education of detained migrant children, the First Amendment and how it relations to American war memorials, and the need...
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December 2, 2019
IPCR Celebrates 20 Years of Changing the World
Alumni from around the globe descended on Grey Towers Castle on Oct. 12 to celebrate 20 years of a unique Arcadia program that’s centered on changing the world: the International Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) Master of Arts program. For two decades, the IPCR program has provided Arcadia...
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December 2, 2019
Students Make Glenside Twinkle for the Holidays
Glenside once again is ready for the holiday season, courtesy of students from the Citizenship and the Law First-Year Seminar, led by the Honorable Christopher Cerski, J.D. , adjunct professor of Historical and Political Studies and Montgomery County District Judge. On Nov. 21, students took to the...
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November 19, 2019
Vira I. Heinz Program Helps Students Experience the World
In May, Perfect Eadric ’21 , Christa McDowell ’21 , and Michelle Qu ’20 departed for eight weeks abroad as part of the Vira I. Heinz Program for Women in Global Leadership . The VIH Program awarded scholarships to fund the Arcadia cohort’s first international learning experiences. “I wasn’t able to...
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November 18, 2019
Dr. Siskind Appointed Associate Provost of Finance and Planning
Dr. Peter Siskind was appointed associate provost for Finance and Planning as of Nov. 1. Dr. Siskind, who had served in this role on an interim basis since June 1, coordinates strategic and financial planning for Academic Affairs and serves as a liaison with the Office of Financial and...
September 10, 2019
Dr. Parsons Dick, Brown ’19 Publish Column in ‘Anthropology News’
International Studies major Melanie Brown ’19 and Associate Professor of Historical and Political Studies Dr. Hillary Parsons Dick published “Speak American,” a column based on Brown’s senior thesis, in Anthropology News on Aug.16. The column explores American news coverage of racializing discourse...
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August 20, 2019
Park '21 Fights Poverty Through Internship
Passionate about foreign policy, International Studies major Rachel Park ’21 landed an internship with the Borgen Project, a nonprofit dedicated to eradicating hunger and poverty around the world. As an international affairs intern, Park supported national campaigns to make global poverty a focus...
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July 1, 2019
Dombroski '20 Investigates U.K. Mental Health Care
Through her research writing course at Arcadia, Amanda Dombroski ’20 developed an interest in mental health policy—one she couldn’t shake when she secured a position at a criminal law firm through The College of Global Studies’ London Internship program. While compiling evidence and attending legal...
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May 3, 2019
Physical Therapy Named Among HealthGrad’s Best DPT Programs
Arcadia’s Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program was ranked fifth among the “Best DPT Programs for 2019” in HealthGrad’s northeast region category. Arcadia’s DPT program is recognized as one of the top 20 programs nationally by U.S. News and World Report. In the last year, the department has also...
April 16, 2019
African Folktale Competition Winners Announced
During the Pan African Studies program’s inaugural African Folktale Competition in February, students were tasked with writing an African folktale between 500 and 1,000 words. On April 5, winners Bethany Davis ’19 , Megan Patterson ’22 , Rebecca Hane ’20 , and Facia Sirleaf ’21M were feted at an...
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