February 5, 2012

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Dr. Palmer’s Update: February 2012

The new semester finds me back in the classroom—always one of my favorite places to be. Ten advanced business students and I are working together in a Management Consulting course. This ...

100 Years of Academic Excellence: Focus on Art and Art History

Marking a century of higher education at Principia, 2012 is an ideal year to celebrate and highlight excellence across campus—in academics, athletics, and the arts—among our students and faculty, past ...

Dance Intensive Brings World-Class Dancers and Choreographers to Elsah

The rest of the campus may have been quiet and dark over Christmas break, but the dance studios were humming with energy and creativity. From December 15–21, 10 dancers from ...

College Actors Compete in the ACTF Finals

College Actors Compete in the ACTF Finals

Winter break gave senior Jay Amuka time to investigate graduate film schools in New York City. His trip was cut short, though, as he rushed back to campus to rehearse for competition at the regional Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (ACTF) in Champaign, Illinois. “I got back at 2 p.m. on New Year’s Day,” ...

What Makes a Leader? Watch and Learn.

What Makes a Leader? Watch and Learn.

What do Harry Potter, Captain Jack Sparrow, Lord of the Rings’ Aragorn, and Andy Dufresne of Shawshank State Prison have in common? That question kept members of a College leadership study group talking late into the night this past semester. Besides being larger-than-life film characters, these on-screen fictional heroes (and antiheroes) proved to be great discussion ...

100 Years of Academic Excellence: Focus on English and Mass Communication

100 Years of Academic Excellence: Focus on English and Mass Communication

In the second month of our 2012 celebration of a century of higher education at Principia, the English and Mass Communication Departments stand front and center. Training in writing, literary analysis, critical listening and thinking, speaking, and the many facets of communication in our complex times couldn’t be more vital or central to a rewarding ...