Going Viral: It May Be Catching
Two girls and a puppy – what’s not to Like? Along with the rest of the world, we’ve been enjoying watching the story of our former colleague whose daughters’ plea for a puppy attracted more than a...
View ArticleCould’ve, Would’ve, Should’ve
Could’ve written this article myself. Why You Should Work From a Coffee Shop, Even When You Have An Office. Every word of it is truth for me. And, isn’t it great when you find out it’s not just you?...
View ArticleReturn to the Library
I like books; I like words; I like it when we can (rarely) commission art for the magazine; and I like Father Jim Neilson ’88, a lot! So no surprise that Winter 2008 is one of my favorite covers. The...
View ArticleHow to Excel in Dutch
I’ve been developing an article about a Belgian who collects Praemonstratensia – items connected to the history of our founding order. He’s sent me a carefully prepared Excel document in which he has...
View ArticleA Week in Portraits
Acquired, commissioned, art directed, shot. Swapped. Mooched. A scrapbook of this past week offered in awed appreciation to Bart Colson in Zwevegem, Belgium; Mike Roemer and Corey Wilson in Green Bay;...
View ArticleMatters of Science
Well, we knew we’d have good news about science to share in our next issue: we just couldn’t necessarily say what that might be or when we would hear. So we prepped a cover story about the future of...
View ArticleA Word From the First Year
Happy anniversary to us! A year ago today publications intern Nicole Jagielski ’12 and I launched this blog with a post called – and I believe you can see the full might of our joint creative powers at...
View ArticleOne Student, Three Stories …
… good news everywhere you look. OK, that’s a long headline. It’s the kind of issue you’re going to run into with students like Steven Garza ’13. I first came across this senior when he gave a...
View ArticleOld Friend, New Friend
We’ve been talking about a redesign for the magazine for a couple of years now, and I’ve been broaching the topic whenever I run into an interested reader. I’ve sometimes been taken aback by the...
View ArticleRedesign Hits the Streets Today
The print issue mails today and the online magazine is already available. We hope we took care of our readers and we feel the new look does the college proud. If you like it too, we hope you share our...
View ArticleOn and Off the Shelf: A Calling to Share
All my books on vocation* would neatly fill one shelf – if they just felt called to stay put! This small collection has almost all come my way via the reading groups sponsored by the office of faith...
View ArticleThe Perfect Type of a Gentleman
The typewritten envelope habitually arrives about a week or so after publication of each issue. It comes via snail mail, the letter inside laid out in memo format on blue office paper. Don Salmon,...
View ArticleTo Be Applied Liberally
I just had occasion to list these features, currently in development for our summer issue: Socially Connected (social media as a career path – one indeed already taken by several of our alums)...
View ArticleTwenty Minutes With Spring 2013
Got 20 minutes to sit down with our latest issue? Here’s how we’d suggest you spend it. Enjoy! If you like to read with a cup of coffee in your hand, then a coffee-related story makes for a good place...
View ArticleGreat Thing About Working in Higher Ed #73:
… e-mails like this one, from a reader who was hoping for help finding an up-to-date address for our former career counsellor Linda Clay: “I am wondering if you could help me or direct me to someone...
View ArticleHeavenly Memory
My commute to and from St. Norbert takes me past the campus of another Wisconsin school, Lawrence University and, every now and then if I’ve been working into the evening I’ll stop there on the way...
View ArticleBetween the Covers
Well, my summer’s reading is set. There’s a towering stack of books in the corner of my office, gathered in anticipation of a photo shot Monday and, once that’s over, I can’t wait to get stuck in. For...
View ArticleBlossoming Rivalry
Drew is having a little contest against himself to see how many Likes his photography can get on the college’s Facebook page. He enjoys taking off with a camera from time to time to see what’s going...
View ArticleTwo Minutes with June’s @St. Norbert
Got just two minutes to spend with our June news update? Why not: Raise a cheer for the men’s golf team, who took home their first-ever conference championship. Note the fact that 61 percent of our...
View ArticleIn-triguing Enough
When we redesigned our print-issue Table of Contents page we found we needed an unobtrusive way of differentiating the various online extras listed. Headlines were too much, so instead we devised a...
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