Alumni Virtual Connections

Lifelong Learning

Reunion 2021 Programs

Vespers, May Our Love Give Life, Reunion 2021, Prayer Leader Sister Karen Hilgers, Music by Rosie Romportl, Choir Director Ginny Claessens McDonald '57, First Reading by Sister Sharon Howell and alumna celebrant Mary Albright Michel '71, Storyteller is Sister Therese Sherlock and the reflection on the readings is written and offered by Sister Joan Mitchell. Watch the recording HERE.

Reflections from the President, presented by ReBecca Koenig Roloff '76. Watch the recording HERE.

Leading with the Heart in Mind, presented by Sharon Radd, EdD, Associate Professor and Program Director of the MA-Organizational Leadership program. Powerpoint with link to resources. Watch the recording HERE.

Financial Acumen, presented by Presented by Megan Kalina and Sally Adams. Powerpoint with links to resources. Watch the recording HERE.

Using Your Influencing Skills to Get Things Done, presented by Julie Beckel Nelsen ’91, MBA, assistant professor of business administration. Powerpoint with links to resources. Watch the recording HERE.

Higher Education as a River of Fire: A Lifelong Quest for Growth, presented by Bill McDonough, PhD, professor of theology and coordinator of graduate theology. Powerpoint. Watch the recording HERE.

Digital Storytelling and the Liberal Arts, presented by Todd Deutsch, MFA, professor of art and art history. Watch the recording HERE. LINK to the Storytelling Collective.

Social Change and the Dear Neighbor, presented by D’Ann Lesch, Director of Community Work and Learning and Strategic Director for the new Office of Scholarly Engagement. Powerpoint with link to resources.

Online learning archive

Conversation with Books

A tradition since 1965! Enjoy a lively panel discussion about the best new fiction and non-fiction, with a few selections to enhance our backgrounds in reading. Panelists include St. Catherine University English professor Cecilia Konchar Farr, PhD, along with alumnae readers Judie Martens Flahavan ’60 and Ruth Haag Brombach ’60.  Alumna poet Norita Dittberner-Jax ’66 will read a favorite poem from her recently published collection

WATCH the recorded version of Conversation with Books 2021
Printable version of 2021 Book List
Questions? Email Ruth Brombach at rcbrombach@stkate.edu

St. Kate's Reads, Virtual

Margret McCue-Enser, assistant professor of communication studies, will present her research on "Ada Deer,"  a Menominee spokesperson and Native American Rights advocate. Suggested reading: Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice by Ada Deer and Theda Perdue, University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. Link to book.
Watch the recording! 

Daybreak Woman: An Anglo-Dakota Life by Jane Carroll, History, International Studies and Women’s Studies, Sister Mona Riley Endowed Chair in the Humanities. Read the book in advance of the online program and join the discussion.
Watch the recorded version of St. Kate's Reads with Jane Carroll!

Join the St. Kate's community — alumni, students, faculty, staff, and neighbors — throughout the year in book discussions and celebrations at St. Kate’s and St. Kate’s-sponsored events. 

St. Kate's Integrated Learning Series Lectures

Integrated Learning at St. Catherine University is a multidimensional expression of an active Liberal Arts pedagogy. Located at the intersection of creative energy and critical reflection, the Integrated Learning Series is one way we partner academics with activism, the paper with the performance, and the campus with the community. It is the array of courses, activities, speakers, events, performances and exhibitions that coalesce into our ways of knowing. The Integrated Learning Series is the web that binds our learning experiences together and the narratives that connect our collective community.
View any or all of these recordings:

• Minnesota Native 101, presented by Dawn Quigley, PhD, Education Department, St. Catherine University

• Say Their Names: The Black Diaspora, Systemic Racism and Black Movements in Global Perspective presented by Daniel Williams, PhD, Sociology Department, St. Catherine University

• COVID-19: Unmasking Health Inequities with Fardowsa Mohammed, MPAS, PA-C; Tara Rick, MPAS, PA-C, Adjunct Professor MPAS program and current St. Catherine MPAS students
   

Audit an Online Course

Many of St. Kate’s courses will be offered online due to the pandemic. Alumni near and far, this is your chance to audit an online course.
More alumni audit details.

Book Recommendations

Faculty and alumni suggest books for your reading list.

View book lists

Lesson Plans for Families

Pivoting to this virtual world with young children at home has presented challenges and victories. In an effort to share St. Kate’s resources with families acclimating to distance learning, we have partnered with our Early Childhood Center to offer some of their lesson plans to you. May 2021 lessons,  March 2021 lessons,  February 2021 lessons, January 2021 lessons.  2020 lessons: November lessons - October lessons -  August lessons - July lessons -  June lessons  - May lessons