Twenty years ago, Rosary College became Dominican University. The astonishing part is what ...

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SPRING 2017
Twenty years
ago,
Rosary College
became
Dominican
University.
The
astonishing
part
is what
happened next.
A UNIVERSITY’S TEACHING FROM The Meaning of
MILESTONES THE HEART: Work in a Bronx
Emergency Room
Twenty Moments in The Lives of
the Making of Janice Monti and
Dominican Ric Calabrese
The Magazine of Dominican University
Spring 2017
PRESIDENT
Donna M. Carroll
VICE PRESIDENT FOR MARKETING
AND COMMUNICATIONS
Jim Winters
MANAGING EDITOR
Jason Keyser
MAJOR PHOTOGRAPHY
Ryan Pagelow
DESIGN
Jim Bernard Design
Dominican University
7900 W. Division Street
River Forest, Illinois 60305
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Dominican Magazine is published twice
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prohibited.
© 2017 Dominican University
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The sculpture in Parmer
Hall courtyard depicts DU news
Dominican at 20
the founding father of
the Sinsinawa Dominican
3
Sisters, Father Samuel It has been two decades since Rosary College became Dominican launches
Charles Mazzuchelli, OP, Dominican University. This issue celebrates that coming- Powerful Promise, the
most ambitious fundraising
in conversation. The mon- of-age moment and the rapid growth in size, quality and
campaign in its 116-year
ument’s inscription is from impact that has come with university status. history
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who instruct others unto 4
In a trove of student survey
justice will shine like the
data, DU sees a path to
stars forever.” ggrreeaatteerr ssuucccceessss
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DU’s new master’s in
physician assistant studies
puts students on a fast
10 track to the medical field
Teaching Is Heart Work 7
Staying ahead of
For Ric Calabrese and Janice Monti, the journey to master enhanced requirements,
teacher status took them—and their students—through nutrition science adds a
some challenging real-world terrain. graduate track
8
Dominican becomes a
20
sanctuary campus
A Personal History
The School of Information
Sister Jeanne Crapo spent 59 years at Rosary College and Dominican Studies enters the
University. Now, in retirement, she is writing its history. influential iSchools
consortium
26
9
Twenty Moments in Time Meet Gabriel Gongora ’17,
Stars goalkeeper and
From the state-of-the-art labs in Parmer Hall to the mission-centered 2016 Scholar All-American
Caritas Veritas Symposium, Dominican has built a strong foundation
for its next century of service.
38
“You Can’t Afford To Have a Bad Day”
Kendall Moore ’09 works in one of the busiest emergency rooms in
the country. That means staying strong and pushing past limits—
because his patients need him.
departments
41 51
class news in sympathy
Dominican Magazine SPRING 2017 1
from the president
Moments of Reflection
Anniversaries are moments of reflection and renewed momentum. That is the case
for Dominican University as we recognize the 20th anniversary of our name change
and engage the powerful promise of a new academic structure. I am delighted that
we are able to locate both activities within the larger Rosary-Dominican story as
narrated by three of our longest-serving faculty—Sister Jeanne Crapo, Richard
Calabrese and Janice Monti.
It was on May 4, 1997, the day after Commencement, that Rosary College changed
its name to Dominican University. In an instant, the signage was unveiled, but the
process behind the change was lengthy and thoughtful. This was not a marketing
strategy, but rather a bold move to clarify mission and position the institution for
growth. And, as my maternal grandmother would often say, “The proof is in the
“ Building upon
pudding,” and in this magazine. We continue to build upon the Rosary College
the legacies of
tradition.
Rosary College and
Saint Clara College, Dominican today remains committed to the liberal arts and sciences, and to a cul-
Dominican University ture of care and challenge. Recent results of a student engagement survey, reported
continues to be a in Campus News, affirm that academic disposition. At the same time, there is an
deeply mission- increasing relevance to our curriculum, a connection between the classroom and the
centered and real world that students highlight as high impact. That is especially evident in our
forward-looking graduate programs, where Dominican’s growth in the health sciences and our new
institution—one that iSchool designation expand reputation and career opportunities for graduates.
changes students’
Such an opportunity-rich and adaptable curriculum would not be possible without
lives every day.”
the continuing investment of alumnae/i and friends, like you, who 20 years ago sup-
—President Donna M. Carroll ported the name change and who continue to support academic innovation through
your contributions to the Powerful Promise campaign. We currently are in the public
phase of that campaign, during which every gift counts. You can find a summary
of campaign priorities on pages 36–37 of this magazine. I thank you in advance for
your support.
Let me also thank you for your confidence and guidance over the last two decades.
Building upon the legacies of Rosary College and Saint Clara College, Dominican
University continues to be a deeply mission-centered and forward-looking institu-
tion—one that changes students’ lives every day. What a privilege it is to witness the
good work of so many, focused on student success. This magazine tells their story
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Short takes on a season at Dominican
Using the Data: The university’s new Dominican declares itself
A national survey Physician Assistant a sanctuary campus
provides a fuller Studies program puts PAGE EIGHT
picture than ever of students on a fast track
student engagement PAGE SIX
at Dominican
PAGE FOUR
The Powerful
Promise Campaign
IN FOCUS
Scholarships
$20 Million
At Dominican, it is a student’s academic and
personal promise that opens the university’s
doors—not a family’s ability to pay tuition
and fees. Scholarship gifts from generous
donors make that happen. Last year, 93% of
Dominican students received financial aid.
Facilities
$20 Million
The campaign seeks to build on the valuable
asset that exists in the very bricks and
mortar of our architecturally distinguished
Delivering on a Powerful Promise
campus. Those aims include renovating
classrooms, enhancing academic facilities
Freshmen Elin Ream In October, Dominican University publicly launched Powerful Promise,
and, most dramatically, building a new, $16
and Jake Sidner cele- the most ambitious fundraising campaign in its 116-year history. The
million Student Commons.
brate the launch of the campaign already has raised more than $40 million toward a goal of
Powerful Promise $65 million for scholarships, faculty, programs, facilities and general insti-
Faculty and Programs campaign at an event tutional support. At the launch event, President Donna M. Carroll said the
$20 Million in Mazzuchelli Hall at effort’(cid:90) overar(cid:74)(cid:79)(cid:80)n(cid:78) a(cid:84)(cid:73)(cid:80)t(cid:80)on (cid:80)(cid:90) “to (cid:74)reate o(cid:87)(cid:87)ortun(cid:80)t(cid:80)e(cid:90) t(cid:79)at enr(cid:80)(cid:74)(cid:79) and
A successful campaign will ensure
which they made their tran(cid:90)(cid:77)or(cid:84) (cid:90)tudent(cid:90)’ (cid:79)eart(cid:90) and (cid:84)(cid:80)nd(cid:90)(cid:21)”
Dominican’s continued academic distinction
own commitments to The Powerful Promise campaign is about giving a rising generation
by supporting research initiatives, named
make a difference, on of talented and deserving students the opportunity for a values-based,
lectures, a growing honors program and
campus and beyond. relationship-centered, life-changing education. The campaign seeks to
innovative programs in the health sciences
provide the resources that will enable Dominican to sustain its excellence
and other disciplines.
and advance its distinctive mission: to prepare students to pursue truth,
to give compassionate service, and to participate in the creation of a
The Fund for Dominican
more just and humane world.
$5 Million
At an event in Mazzuchelli Hall, students made their own pledges to
These funds will support innovations in
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teaching and research, equip high-tech
Hall, they wrote down promises to encourage peers to reach their goals,
classrooms and laboratories, and keep
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class sizes small. It’s all about enriching the
For more on the campaign, see page 36.
learning experience.
Dominican Magazine SPRING 2017 3
Using Data to Build a
Better Dominican
A national survey shows Dominican students are more
challenged in the classroom and more engaged in the community
than their peers at many other schools. Now faculty and staff
are using the data as a guide to greater success.
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over each year. But behind the scenes at metrics, in contrast, cut to the core of the connected to real-world issues. The results put
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dense and often compelling detail what real performance of hundreds of four-year colleges fostering of diversity among students, faculty
students have to say about their expectations for and universities. It examines the experience of and (cid:90)taff(cid:21) “T(cid:79)e (cid:196)nd(cid:80)n(cid:78)(cid:90) (cid:80)nd(cid:80)(cid:74)ate t(cid:79)at Do(cid:84)(cid:80)n(cid:80)(cid:74)an
college and their actual campus experiences. students at both the beginning and the end of does an excellent job of providing an envi-
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any given school is doing right, and what it (cid:58)tate(cid:90) and Canada(cid:21) T(cid:79)e (cid:88)ue(cid:90)t(cid:80)on(cid:90) (cid:74)over t(cid:79)e have teamed up to spread awareness of the
needs to do better. level of academic challenge, the larger campus survey and put its data to active use. They
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high levels in several key categories, including

4 Dominican Magazine SPRING 2017
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example, they worked hard to understand a
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rated with other students on projects or exam
The 2016 NSSE survey reported the responses of 369 Dominican students
preparation. A plausible explanation surfaced
to questions about their classroom and campus experiences. The survey also
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includes data on student demographics. At Dominican, for example, 73% of
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freshmen and 67% of seniors are first-generation college students (neither
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parent holds a bachelor’s degree). Nationally, less than half of both freshmen
both results are far higher than the national
and seniors are first-generation.
average. That likely reduces the time stu-
dents have to collaborate outside class. Dick
Walstra, an assistant professor of accounting,
proposed a solution: faculty should try to
weave more time for collaborative work into
the classroom.
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Diversity in the Engaging Relating
“ T(cid:79)e (cid:196)nd(cid:80)n(cid:78)(cid:90) (cid:80)nd(cid:80)(cid:74)ate Classroom Difference with Faculty
that Dominican does an 69% of freshmen said their Among seniors, 79% fre- 57% of Dominican seniors
classroom discussions or quently had discussions with said they had talked often
excellent job of providing
assignments included the people from a different race about their career plans with
an enviroment that
perspectives of diverse or ethnicity; 75% frequently a faculty member, compared
enables students to groups of people, compared had discussions with people with just 41% nationally.
with 52 percent nationally. with other religious beliefs.
deal with real-world
These results are six per-
issues during and after
centage points higher than
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Jeffrey R. Breese
Provost
the data in her work as director of the Center
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runs summer academies for faculty to improve
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really gets at their interactions in the classroom Social Issues for the Person Serve
and with each other, what they bring to the
65% of Dominican seniors More than half of Dominican 68% of freshmen and 74%
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said the university encourages freshmen said the university of seniors said some of their
Administrative departments across campus
students to attend events supported them in managing courses include a community
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on important social issues. non-academic responsibil- service-learning project.
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Nationally, 45% of seniors ities involving things like Nationally, the figures were
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said the same about their work and family. The national much lower: 53% and 61%.
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Dominican Magazine SPRING 2017 5
“I love the fast-paced nature of it,
how it’s different every single day.”
—Alex Vogt, PA graduate student
On the Fast Track into the Medical Field
DU’s new Physician Assistant Studies program taps into a dynamic
sector and puts students on a faster route to high-level medical practice.
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ard Salcido, director of
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gram, sums up demand On a life-size tabletop touchscreen, students career and the chance to function as part of a team
for PAs. The number of
zoomed in on real digitized 3D scans of the human with other health care workers.
PA jobs is forecast to
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grow 30% between 2014
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than 94,000 physician
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assistants in the U.S. The
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Food for Healing
DU’s nutrition science program launches a graduate track this
fall. The field is undergoing intense growth as businesses and
organizations seek dietitians to advise them on the role of
food and nutrition in promoting health and managing disease.
Here are a few things to know about the program:
Tougher requirements Bureau of Labor Statistics. recently, an animal nutrition A focus on mission, a
for entering the field Careers are as varied as sports program at the Brookfield push for diversity
Dominican designed its program nutrition, clinical dietetics and Zoo. Dominican’s standout
to get a jump on tougher industry food service management. partnership is with Head Start, Until now, the department’s
standards. Starting in 2024, Registered dietitians are also a child development program only graduate offering was one
the Academy of Nutrition and in increasing demand by that serves preschool children that combines a registered
Dietetics will require entry-level businesses, especially health and their families who live at dietitian degree with an MBA,
registered dietitians to have a clubs, grocery store chains and or below the federal poverty the only such dual program
master’s degree in order to be the growing number of meal- level. Dominican’s Nutrition in the country. The new MS in
accredited. The change mirrors delivery startups. Science Department provides Nutrition reflects Dominican’s
requirements for more advanced all of the nutrition services for larger mission of service and
degrees in other health fields. Unique partnerships and its Chicago locations. “That is includes a class called Food
And as the nutrition field grows, real-world experience a huge partnership that makes Health and Social Justice.
there is a push for practitioners The two-year program will us unique,” says Elisa D’Urso Dietitians have an important
to have more specialized prepare students for jobs in Fischer, director of the role to play in alleviating child
knowledge. clinical settings like hospitals department’s coordinated poverty, eliminating food deserts
Great job outlook and in community locations program in dietetics. “Our and targeting other injustices,
Employment in the field is like nonprofits, food pantries students work in every facet Fischer explains. “Literally, one
projected to grow at about 16 and after-school programs. of that program, from meeting out of five children in Chicago
percent over the coming years. Students can choose from with families and children are living in an insecure food
That’s more than double the supervised practice rotations to inspecting kitchens and environment,” Fischer says.
average growth rate for all at around 100 sites that partner affecting policy.”
occupations, according to the with Dominican, including, most DDoommiinniiccaann MMaaggaazziinnee SSPPRRIINNGG 22001177 77
Among Leaders
The School of Information
Studies has been accepted
for membership in iSchools,
a leading consortium of
more than 80 information
schools around the world
dedicated to advancing
the burgeoning field. The
organization was founded in
2005 to bring together pro-
grams rooted in information
technology, library science,
informatics and information
science.
Dean Kate Marek says acceptance
into the organization is great news
for the school, which until recently
Dominican Becomes a Sanctuary Campus
was known as the Graduate School
of Library and Information Science.
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program. It also offers Domini-
politics. It is a human rights issue, guided by t(cid:79)e un(cid:80)ver(cid:90)(cid:80)ty’(cid:90) ad(cid:84)(cid:80)n(cid:80)(cid:90)trat(cid:80)on and (cid:77)a(cid:74)u(cid:83)ty (cid:79)ave
can’s first Ph.D. program. In the
(cid:77)a(cid:80)t(cid:79)(cid:19)” t(cid:79)e re(cid:90)o(cid:83)ut(cid:80)on (cid:90)tate(cid:90)(cid:21) “(cid:62)e are (cid:74)o(cid:84)- taken a leadership role around issues of immi-
fall, the school launched a new
pelled by mission to advocate for, and walk gration reform and the rights of undocumented
master’s program in information
alongside, our undocumented students, their students.
management. It began offering an
families and their communities, whose future is A (cid:74)o(cid:84)(cid:84)(cid:80)ttee o(cid:77) (cid:77)a(cid:74)u(cid:83)ty and (cid:90)taff (cid:74)urrent(cid:83)y (cid:80)(cid:90)
undergraduate major and minor in
(cid:90)o un(cid:74)erta(cid:80)n(cid:21)” working on grassroots strategies to implement
informatics in January.
The foundational elements of the reso- t(cid:79)e (cid:73)oard’(cid:90) re(cid:90)o(cid:83)ut(cid:80)on(cid:21)
lution were recommended by the University

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