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The Magazine
of Dominican
University
FALL 2016
So Proudly Dominican
Y E A R S
and Counting on You.
THE STEWARSHIP STUDY, PRAYER, The Search for
OF LEGACY: SERVICE, COMMUNITY: Truth in the
Reflections on a The Four Pillars and Neuroscience Lab
Dominican Life Today’s Students
Story, by President
Donna M. Carroll
Dominican Magazine FALL 2016 CVR1
table of contents
The Magazine of Dominican University Domingo Félix de Guzmán
Fall 2016 (1170–1221), Castilian DU news
priest and founder of the
Order of Preachers. Saint
Celebrating 800 Years of
The Order of Preachers
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Dominic was canonized in The university reorganizes
PRESIDENT
1234. its academic enterprise
Donna M. Carroll As the community enters its ninth century of service, the Dominicans
into four colleges
are at work in 92 nations. This issue celebrates the order’s 800th Jubilee
VICE PRESIDENT FOR MARKETING
and presents a sketch of the legacy of Saint Dominic in our time.
A N D C O M M U N I C AT I O N S
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Jim Winters
Inside the new master’s
MAJOR PHOTOGRAPHY 10 program in information
management
Ryan Pagelow
Lesson One: Can libraries be
DESIGN
Jim Bernard Design
Don’t Fool Yourself a resource for
persons with
Professor Robert Calin-Jageman leads students on a painstaking autism?
search for truth in the neuroscience lab.
Dominican University Two DU students complete
7900 W. Division Street studies at Oxford
River Forest, Illinois 60305
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magazine@dom.edu Dominican honors Father
Gustavo Gutiérrez, the
Dominican Magazine is published twice “father of liberation
yearly by Dominican University for its theology”
alumnae/i and friends. Reproduction in
whole or part without written permission is
prohibited.
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© 2016 Dominican University
The Stewardship of Legacy
The Dominican tradition is ever evolving, and the next chapter is
ours to compose. Introducing the School of
By President Donna M. Carroll Information Studies
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The Four Pillars Today
Study. Prayer. Service. Community. After 800 years, these still
Making the campus high
form the foundation of lives informed by Dominican teaching and
tech and high touch
experience.
Meet Alyssa Domico ’17,
national finalist for the
32 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports
Staying Real in a Virtual World Scholar Award
Tracy Samantha Schmidt ’05 already has built an outstanding
career in journalism and higher education. Now she is on the front
lines of social media.
ON THE COVER
departments
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Caterina di Giacomo di Benincasa (1347–1380),
Dominican theologian and philosopher. She has class news in sympathy
been known since her canonization in 1461 as
Saint Catherine of Siena.
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about this issue
Short takes on a season at Dominican
“A transformative Inside the new master’s Making libraries a
Speaking of Dominican moment”: The university
adopts a new, four-
college model
program in information
management
PA G E F IVE
resource for people
with autism
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This year, the worldwide Dominican family is celebrating the 800th anniversary
“We hope to produce a of the founding of the Order of Preachers. Dominican University has marked the
publication that fully
milestone with (among other things) lectures, courses, ceremonies and a trip to
reflects the institution
it serves: challenging, Fanjeaux, France, the order’s birthplace. This issue of Dominican Magazine continues Making Good
aspiring, open-hearted, the celebration with a cover package on the Dominican tradition in contemporary life.
on a
down to earth and true Powerful
to life.” The issue also introduces a new look and refreshed format for the magazine. We Promise
have expanded the campus news section, added regular features on Dominican
faculty and alumnae/i and added to the content of the class news section. We also PHOTO TK
have worked to make the features more substantial, the graphics more lively, the
writing more engaging, brisk and clear.
We intend to continue to fulfill the traditional functions of a university publication:
by portraying the life of the campus—and by celebrating the achievements, explor-
In October, Dominican launches
ing the challenges and presenting the views of a far-flung university community.
the public phase of Powerful
We also aim to stimulate thought, to make this magazine a rewarding experience
Promise: The Campaign for
for all who take the time to read it. Most of all, we hope to produce a publication Dominican University. In its “silent”
that fully reflects the institution it serves: challenging, aspiring, open-hearted, down phase, the campaign has already
raised more than $40 million.
to earth and true to life. Our goal, in short, is to create a magazine in the spirit of
The public launch builds on a
Dominican University. strong fundraising year, with The
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more than $8.5 million in philan-
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In August, Dominican welcomed 495 freshmen, the second-largest
class in its 115-year history. The university enrolled 166 new transfer
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To meet student needs in challenging times,
the university reshapes its academic structure.
One University, Four Colleges
A Here is the new academic structure approved in April by the Board of Trustees.
TRANSF RMATIVE
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Dominican University is reorganizing its academic enterprise. The university began and comprehensive response. This academic
the 2016–2017 school year with a new college and a ratified plan for a reimagined realignment is the foundation for Dominican’s
institutional structure that will enable a complex institution to better integrate and response. Our goal is to organize ourselves in
leverage its substantial educational resources. new and efficient ways to meet the emerging
The reorganization is the product of a plines. We looked for ways to be creative about needs of today’s students—and to remain
robust process that began in 2014, and the synergies that might be found between relevant and affordable to them, assuring the
included a wide range of university commit- undergraduate and graduate education, and vitality of our mission well into the future.”
The restructuring was approved by the The Rosary College The Brennan School The College of Applied The College of Health
tees and constituencies. It was inspired by across disciplinary lines. We wanted to build an
Board of Trustees at its April 14, 2016, of Arts and Sciences of Business provides values- Social Sciences brings together Sciences addresses the aca-
a general perception that the institution had academic structure that was nimble, respon-
meeting. It organizes the university into four is the university’s oldest and larg- based academic and professional Dominican’s highly regarded demic and professional needs of
entered an era of constant challenge and sive and larger than the sum of its parts.”
academic units—two new and two continuing. est academic unit. It engages 57 preparation in accounting, econom- programs in education, social students in a growing range of
accelerating change—driven by technological
They are described in the accompanying story. percent of the faculty, offers more ics and business at the graduate work, and library and information health-related fields. Launched
advances, demographic shifts and a global The working group sought to build an academic
The new academic structure emerges nearly than 60 majors and pre-profes- and undergraduate levels. In 2014, science. The School of Education, in July, the college builds on
economy still struggling to fully emerge from a model that would:
two decades after Rosary College became sional programs, and plans to add the school earned accreditation the School of Social Work and the Dominican’s strengths in the social
historic recession. Leverage institutional resources to meet
n
Dominican University—a move that reflected graduate programs. The college from the Association to Advance newly named School of Informa- and natural sciences with new and
At Dominican and many other universi- current and anticipated student needs.
the institution’s commitment to sustaining its maintains a 12:1 student-to-faculty Collegiate Schools of Business, tion Studies (the former Graduate established programs in nursing,
ties, these pressures disrupted enrollment
n Encourage established graduate programs Catholic Dominican tradition in the service of ratio, and its relationship-centered the discipline’s largest and most School of Library and Information medical science, nutrition and
patterns. Well-established academic disci-
to develop undergraduate academic a growing, multidimensional and ambitious liberal arts tradition is central to prestigious accrediting body. Science) will retain their individual dietetics, and physician assistant
plines—including business, education, and
offerings in response to societal needs and academic program. The full implementation of Dominican’s institutional identity. “AACSB accreditation signals a identities and curricular autonomy studies. “The new college is a tan-
library and information science—felt the impact
student demand. the reorganization will take several academic “Undergraduates will continue to learning environment of the highest within the combined college, while gible expression of the university’s
sharply. The Board of Trustees challenged the
cycles, and will require careful consideration of take a consistent core curriculum quality, with certified faculty and benefiting from enhanced collab- ambitions in the health sciences,”
institutional leadership to rethink and reshape n Foster interdisciplinary learning to prepare
mission alignment, programmatic opportunities, under the new academic structure,” a comprehensive curriculum that oration across disciplines. The says Daniel Beach, professor of
its academic structure to ensure maximum students for maximum service in today’s
governance structures, financial requirements says Provost Jeffrey R. Breese. can withstand strict scrutiny,” says college will launch in July 2017, psychology and interim dean of the
efficiency and educational effectiveness. Over complex and demanding professions.
and space needs. “At the same time, the structure Dean Roberto Curci. “It is telling and also will offer the graduate and college. “This college will look out-
the last year, the process was led by the n Advance the university’s vision for expanded
“Once again, Dominican has made a bold will encourage faculty to develop that, of the 13,000 business pro- undergraduate programs of the ward to the community it serves,
provost, Jeffrey R. Breese, and an ad hoc offerings in the health sciences.
decision at a critical moment, in the service innovative academic programs grams in the world, less than five School of Professional and Con- enabling the university to do its
division of the university’s planning committee, Make the most effective use of space at
n
of mission,” says President Carroll. “This new that will contribute to Dominican’s percent are AACSB accredited. It tinuing Studies. “The new structure part to address critical shortages
the Academic Alignment and Implementation both the main and Priory campuses.
academic structure honors our 100+ year standing as a university offering a places us among the very best.” will allow us to be more agile and of health care professionals in
Working Group.
n Enhance the university’s capacity to tradition and, at the same time, results in an robust, compelling, interdisciplinary creative as we work to meet the the Chicago area and around the
“We began with a recognition that Dominican
remain financially healthy and affordable institution that it is more innovative, collaborative mix of undergraduate and graduate needs of students in these import- nation.”
is unusually well positioned to organize itself
to students by eliminating administrative and sustainable. It will enable this university to degrees.” ant and related fields,” says the
in ways that not only achieve efficiencies but
redundancies and cutting ancillary costs. remain a vital force for good, and to advance provost.
also foster the development of genuinely
innovative academic programs,” says Breese. “This is a transformative moment for our distinctive mission: to prepare students to
“We are, at once, small enough to know and Dominican University and for higher education pursue truth, to give compassionate service
understand our faculty colleagues, and large in general,” says President Donna M. Carroll. and to participate in the creation of a more just
enough to offer academic programming at “As an institution and an industry, we face a and humane world.”
various levels and in a wide range of disci- set of challenges that requires an innovative
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“We go beyond technical issues and focus
intentionally on human concerns....We consider the
ethical and responsible use of information.”
A Program
Inside the new
Big Data
That Fits the Way
master’s program People Work
For Human
in information The faculty designed the new
management program with working profes- Targeting Autism
Beings
sionals in mind.
n The 12-course (36 credit-
hour) curriculum features As the information revolution classes and workshops that will
nine required courses and
accelerates, the role of libraries in enable librarians to address the
three electives.
society continues to broaden to needs of persons with ASD, who
n Students can complete include service to new populations. often have difficulty communicat-
Assistant Professor
the program in two years A Dominican faculty member ing and interacting with others.
by taking two courses per Sujin Huggins has taken
is at the forefront of an effort to The program will begin on
semester, three semesters the lead in developing
make libraries a more responsive Dominican’s campus in spring
per year—or finish faster programs that will enable
resource for persons with autism 2017. The librarians will learn to
by taking three courses per librarians to address the
spectrum disorder (ASD) and their design physical spaces, provide
A World of semester. needs of persons with
families. needed accommodations and
Career Options n The first two courses are offered autism.
Assistant Professor Sujin create services and programs
in eight-week segments in
Today’s fast-changing Huggins is a director of Targeting that support the resource and
a hybrid format (four to five
workplace has an acute weekend sessions plus online Autism, a comprehensive training recreational needs of individuals
need for professionals coursework). and education program that of all ages with ASD. The initiative
who can manage vast enables librarians throughout the is funded through a $522,871
n Additional required courses
quantities of informa- State of Illinois to better support grant awarded to the Illinois State
are offered online or in
tion with a focus on persons with autism. The univer- Library from the Laura Bush 21st
hybrid formats.
user needs. Domini- sity has formed a partnership with Century Librarian Program of the
can’s new MSIM pro- n Electives are offered in a
Targeting Autism, and Huggins Institute of Museum and Library
gram prepares students variety of formats: in the
has taken the lead in developing Services.
for positions such as: evenings, on weekends,
online or hybrid.
• Data analyst
• Medical informatics n New cohorts begin each fall.
researcher Dominican University has launched a cutting-edge ease of online learning. Students can create their
• Clinical research
Dateline:
master’s program in information management that own learning plans or choose an area of specializa-
associate
prepares students to thrive in one of the world’s tion, such as analytics, cybersecurity, digital content
• Information architect fastest-growing fields. management or web design.
Oxford
• Business development The new MSIM program—Master of Science in The MSIM prepares students to comprehend
analyst
Information Management—is the only program of its and manage the vast amount of complex data that
• Clinical informatics kind in the Chicago area, and one of only 11 in the the “information revolution” has made accessible.
specialist
United States. The curriculum addresses the full range of strate-
• Front-end developer Lindsey Tocik and Branden Holtzman are certified members of the
“The information management field is growing gic, technical and ethical issues that have emerged
• Digital optimization at an astonishing rate,” says Kate Marek, dean of from a phenomenon that is transforming the way “Hogwarts Generation.” They have felt at home as undergraduates at
analyst
the School of Information Studies, which designed organizations operate and individuals navigate an Dominican, where some of the interiors resemble Harry Potters’s
• Desktop support Hogwarts. In the last academic year, they got to experience the inspi-
and offers the program. “Businesses and organi- increasingly complex information environment.
engineer
zations suddenly have access to unprecedented “We go beyond technical issues and focus ration for Hogwarts as students at the University of Oxford. Tocik,
quantities of invaluable data. Professionals who are intentionally on human concerns,” says Dean Marek. an English literature major, and Holtzman, a philosophy major, were
prepared to understand and manage that wealth of “We consider the ethical and responsible use of selected for the English university’s study abroad program, one of the
information with a sharp focus on user needs are information. Our courses dig deep into issues such most prestigious and competitive in the world. It offers only
in extremely high demand. This program directly as privacy, equity of access and the governance 25 openings for students from affiliated institutions in the United
addresses a critical need of today’s students and issues associated with information use. This focus States. In 2005, Dominican established an agreement with
the larger society.” is distinctly Dominican. It reflects our institutional Oxford’s Blackfriars Hall, the home to a diverse academic
Designed for working professionals, the MSIM mission of creating a more just and humane world, community, including more than 20 Dominican friars. Since
curriculum is offered in a flexible, hybrid format that and it gives our students a special perspective as 2005, six Dominican University students have completed
blends the benefits of personal interaction with the they prepare for technology-related careers.” the demanding year-long program at Oxford.
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A Challenge She Sets the Bar High
for Christians Alyssa Domico redefined the concept of ‘balanced
student’ on the way to becoming a national finalist for
On September 27, the university the Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award.
presented the 2016 Bradford-
O’Neill Medallion for Social
Justice to Gustavo Gutiérrez, OP, Alyssa Domico got her start in competitive
the distinguished Dominican softball as a five-year-old girl in Naperville.
scholar and “father of liberation “My dad coached softball, and he was always
Name That School
theology.” As a working priest in in the stands cheering for me,” she recalls.
the slums of Lima, Father Gutiérrez “He encouraged me to pursue my dreams.”
Years later, a chance encounter with a
The Graduate School of Library and Informa- start an undergraduate major and minor in coach at a softball tournament in Colorado
tion Science has a new name: The School informatics in January 2017. The school is led Alyssa to Dominican University. “I wanted
of Information Studies. It is the fourth name famous for its Master of Library and Information to play at the collegiate level, and I wanted to
for the academic unit founded in 1930 as the Science program (MLIS), accredited by the be a balanced student,” she says. “Dominican
Rosary College Library School, and reflects the American Library Association. seemed like the perfect fit for me.”
expansion of the discipline in the information The Graduate School of Social Work also At Dominican, Alyssa has redefined the
age. The change was approved by the faculty has a new name: The School of Social Work. concept of “balanced student.” She plays
in the spring and by the Board of Trustees at It is the second name for the school, which volleyball and basketball as well as first base
SPORTS SHORTS
its October meeting. enrolled its first class in 2001. Among other things, in softball. She volunteers as a coach with
“The name-change process was a highly it reflects plans to start offering academic pro- a youth league. She is completing a double Spring semester 2016 was
visible and interactive conversation among our grams at the undergraduate level. The school major (neuroscience and neurobiology) and the 20th semester in a row
faculty, staff, current students and graduates also is developing new interdisciplinary courses a double minor (business administration and in which the average cumu-
in medical, mental and behavioral health social lative grade point average of
of classes over several decades,” says Dean chemistry). She tutors students in a genetics
Dominican student-athletes
Kate Marek. “It included online outreach and work. In fall 2017, it will assume leadership for class, participates in the Honors Program,
exceeded 3.00.
discussion as well as several events.” In the degree offerings of The School of Profes- and maintains a perfect 4.00 grade-point
the fall, the school launched a new master’s sional and Continuing Studies, within the new average. In 2016, she was a national finalist for About one in five members of
program in information management; it plans to College of Applied Social Sciences. the prestigious Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar the entering freshman class
is a varsity athlete.
Award, which honors athletes who excel in
the classroom and on the field. Alyssa was In the 2015–2016 academic
the only finalist from NCAA Division III. year, seven team sports (out
High Tech, High Touch “Alyssa’s drive is what makes her an elite of a possible 10) qualified
witnessed the everyday scandal for its respective conference
The university is midway through a student-athlete,” says Cristina Lukas, the
of lives defined by poverty and tournaments.
five-year, $12 million technology plan. head softball coach, who first introduced
injustice. In his vastly influential
The front end of the plan was largely her to Dominican. “She sets the bar high
book, A Theology of Liberation,
about hardware, software and access; and works as hard as it takes to achieve
published in 1971, Guttiérez
the back end will focus on preparing her goals.” (Last season she posted the
challenged his Church to stand
faculty and staff to make the most of team high .410 batting average.) “She is
with the poor and the oppressed.
new technologies. Last summer, the an example of positive leadership for every
“Real, material poverty—this less-
university sponsored two intensive IT student-athlete in our program.”
than-human situation in which
“academies” in which 28 faculty mem- With the help of her faculty mentor, Dr.
most human beings live today—is
bers developed enhanced coursework Irina Calin-Jageman of the biology department,
a challenge which no Christian
that blends online and on-campus Alyssa landed an internship in a dentist’s
is free to overlook,” he said. The
learning. The staff has been working office. She plans to enter dental school in
book stands as the seminal text
to optimize the community’s usage 2017. “I once had a crooked set of teeth, and
of liberation theology, the spiritual,
of its technology infrastructure and I know how much better I felt with my trans-
intellectual and social movement
to launch a new IT support center. In formed smile,” she says. “I hope to become
that sees an active concern for
its inaugural year, the support center an orthodontist. I like to make people smile.”
the poor as a central tenet of
handled 18,000 cases; more than half
Christian teaching.
were resolved within 24 hours.
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the teacher’s art
Bob Calin-Jageman is a
founder of Dominican’s
LESSON ONE:
neuroscience program.
Another founder is his wife
and research partner, Irina
DON’T FOOL YOURSELF
Calin-Jageman. In 2015
the National Institutes
of Health awarded the
Calin-Jagemans a three-
year, $435,000 grant to
support their research
The search for truth in the neuroscience lab into the mechanisms of
memory.
By Andrew Santella
FOR BOB CALIN-JAGEMAN’S neuroscience tool for, at the same time, advancing science and
students, the opening phone call of a new research teaching students. A basic tenet of science, he notes,
project can be, well, awkward. is that findings should be reproducible. And young
Calin-Jageman and his student researchers often researchers working on a replication study learn in the
collaborate on replication projects—scientific studies same way that art students advance by copying the
that seek to verify findings that already have been great masters. “It is terrific training, the best kind of
Slug Lab 101
published by established researchers. A replication apprenticeship,” Calin-Jageman says. “A researcher has
Bob Calin-Jageman’s
project meticulously recreates the original investi- to make so many decisions, and any one answer can
research seeks to
gation, in a new setting and with new subjects, and understand the mech- bias the results. A replication study requires you to
sometimes with different results. The replicating anisms of memory. take the whole process apart and put it back together
researchers depend on the cooperation of the original Alongside students again. You really get to experience the nuts and bolts
in his lab, he studies
researchers, and not every scientist is happy to get a of research.”
a relatively simple
phone call from a curious bunch of Dominican under- life form, sea slugs. Calin-Jageman is an associate professor of psy-
graduates eager to subject his or her work to scrutiny. The research has the chology at Dominican and a founder of the uni-
“A lot is at stake for the researchers,” Calin-Jageman potential to contribute versity’s neuroscience program. Another founder is
to the alleviation of
explains. “It can get contentious. Some scientists human suffering from his wife and research partner, Irina Calin-Jageman,
withhold their cooperation, or throw up insuperable conditions such as an associate professor of biology. The couple met in
roadblocks to replicating their research. Others re- Alzheimer’s disease. graduate school at Wayne State University in Detroit.
spond with condescension. They tell the students, ‘I They came to Dominican in 2007 explicitly to start
don’t think you should try this. It’s too complicated the neuroscience program. It now occupies three labs
for you.’” in Parmer Hall. The study of the nervous system,
The professor is quick to add that his goal is neuroscience once was considered a branch of biology,
not to embarrass his fellow scientists, but rather to but has expanded to embrace psychology and many
introduce aspiring scientists to the subtleties and other subjects. The interdisciplinary nature of the
complexities of the research process. “I love sci- work is reflected by the space the program inhabits on
ence,” he says. “I’m rooting for the original studies the second floor of Parmer, between the biology and
to work.” He sees replication studies as a valuable psychology departments.
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The Calin-Jageman research seeks to statistics” are part of a growing academic without the borders. Lehmann under-
understand the mechanisms of memory. In movement to make research processes took her replication study as part of an
the lab, they study a relatively simple life more transparent and less biased. “It’s all honors project funded by the university’s
form, Aplysia californica—sea slugs—to trace about making it harder to fool ourselves Undergraduate Research Assistantship
the behavioral, neural and other changes that into seeing what we want to see in research Program. From the start, she recalls, she
occur in an organism when it forms a new results,” Calin-Jageman says. The text- had questions about the methods of the
memory in the brain. Students like to call book includes tips to help students avoid original study. “It used extremely small
the place the Slug Lab. Since 2012, 24 stu- common errors under the title “DON’T sample sizes, but consistently found
dents on Calin-Jageman research teams have FOOL YOURSELF.” large effect sizes. Having run a few small
contributed to published articles in peer- Replication projects at Dominican have studies for classes, I was used to studies
reviewed scientific journals. The most recent called into question scientific findings that failing because of small sample sizes,”
article, in the journal Learning and Memory, had been widely regarded as conclusive. she says. “It smelled fishy.” Lehmann
was entitled “Transcriptional analysis of a In the Spring 2016 semester, for example, worked with larger samples and followed
whole-body form of long-term habituation Kelsie Chasten, a senior, was selected to open-science practices. She eventually
in Aplysia californica.” participate in an international effort to rep- engaged more than 400 subjects (the
The research may sound abstruse, but it licate a 1988 study of the “facial feedback original study involved 50 subjects).
has the potential to contribute to the allevia- hypothesis.” It holds that facial expressions She found that red borders made no sig-
tion of human suffering from common con- (such as smiles) not only communicate nificant difference in perceived attractive-
ditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. In 2015,
the National Institutes of Health awarded
the Calin-Jagemans a three-year, $435,000
“A researcher has to make so many decisions, and any
grant to support their memory research. It
was the couple’s second NIH grant in seven
one answer can bias the results. A replication study was Leon Lederman, the Nobel Prize–winning Hands-on Learning
years, and it included funding to support the
requires you to take the whole process apart and put it physicist. Since 2012, 24 students
work of four student researchers a year. “We back together again. You really get to experience the In his skeptical way, Calin-Jageman enti- on Calin-Jageman
are absolutely committed to helping students nuts and bolts of research.” tled his Lund-Gill Lecture “Is Science Sick?” research teams have
“Each year our society invests billions in sci- contributed to articles pub-
apprentice into science in our lab,” says Irina
entific research, producing an awe-inspiring lished in peer-reviewed
Calin-Jageman. “Getting hands-on experi-
emotions but also shape them; it had been ness. Lehmann plans to attend graduate stream of breakthroughs and discoveries,” he journals. The most recent
ence can really ignite a passion for research,
cited as definitive in psychology textbooks school. “I learned so much about the says. “But is the scientific enterprise working NIH grant awarded to the
analysis and inquiry.”
for decades. However, the replication study process of carrying through a research as well as it could be?” He notes “a growing neuroscience program
A passion for truth—veritas, in the
in which Chasten participated did not con- project from start to finish,” she says. unease” among practitioners that science is includes funding to support
Dominican lexicon—also underlies the work
firm the original findings, raising questions “I feel a lot more prepared to carry out “producing findings that are much less reli- four student researchers
in the Slug Lab. Bob says he was “argumen-
about the viability of the hypothesis. research at a higher level now.” able and accurate” than they need to be. in each academic year.
tative and skeptical” even as an undergradu-
Chasten “helped to make a meaningful Last year, Bob Calin-Jageman won Calin-Jageman can be counted on to con- “We are absolutely com-
ate at Albion College, where he majored in
contribution to science,” Calin-Jageman the Excellence in Teaching and Leader- tinue to ask the hard questions, of his col- mitted to helping students
philosophy and cognitive science.
says. She is now a graduate student in ship Award of the Rosary College of Arts leagues and his students. He is determined apprentice into science
With Geoff Cumming, an emeritus pro-
occupational therapy at the University of and Sciences. In the 2016–2017 academ- to help the next generation of scientists in our lab,” says Irina
fessor of psychology at La Trobe University
Wisconsin–Milwaukee. ic year, he is the holder of the university’s acquire the probing habits of mind that lead Calin-Jageman. “Getting
in Melbourne, Australia, Bob is the author
Another Calin-Jageman student, Gabri- Lund-Gill Chair, which honors individu- to trustworthy findings. “I hope our students hands-on experience can
of a new textbook, Introduction to the New
elle Lehmann, replicated a widely reported als “of the highest moral and intellectual do more than just develop their skills in doing really ignite a passion for
Statistics. The book emphasizes what are
study that claimed to show that men found reputation who can address themes and science,” he says. “I hope they learn how hard research.”
called open-science practices, such as sharing
women in photos framed by red borders to issues at the heart of the liberal arts and you have to work—and how careful you
data and openly posting hypotheses prior
be more attractive than women in photos sciences.” The inaugural holder, in 2007, have to be—not to fool yourself.”
to studies. Replication studies and the “new
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SO PROUDY DOMINICAN YEARS AND COUNTING ON YOU
th e The Dominican tradition is ever evolving, and the next chapter is ours to compose.
stewardsh i p B Y D O N N A M. C A R R O L L
On November 4, 2015—Founders Day—President Donna M. Carroll
OF
delivered the annual Mazzuchelli Lecture in Rosary Chapel.
Named for Samuel Mazzuchelli, OP, the founder of the Sinisinawa
Dominicans, the lecture opened Dominican University’s celebration of
the 800th anniversary of the Order of Preachers.
This is the text of her address.
LEGaCY oldest daughter of the oldest daughter of the
oldest daughter, and the oldest of my generation.
When my Jesuit uncle had his first heart attack,
he called me back to New York City, actually to
the Bronx, and he gave me a brown paper bag.
In it were all the family cemetery plots, reaching
back to when my great-great-grandmother on my
mother’s side stepped off the boat from Ireland—
the story of the Driscolls in America. I begin here
“Had it not been for the
integrating vision of because the stewardship of legacy has, consciously
feminism and justice that or unconsciously, always been a part of the fabric
I found here among the of my life.
Dominicans, I would not
I have subtitled my talk “From Cincinnati to
have the adult Catholic
faith that I have today. And
Sinsinawa—Lost and Found in the Midwest” because
I know now, through expe- I also have a coincidental kinship with Samuel
rience, how inseparable Mazzuchelli, OP. We both started in New York, off
faith and leadership are in
the boat, so to speak, got our tickets punched in
the context of a Catholic
Cincinnati—he, his final vows, I, my doctorate—
university. Every choice,
every investment, every
and then, as young professionals, we ventured to
word spoken is a state- the frontier of the Midwest—at different times, but
ment of mission.” with the same sense of hope and trepidation.
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T IS NOT without some trepidation, and joy, that I give You can take the girl out of New York,
today’s lecture named for Samuel, because I recognize but you can’t take the New Yorker out of the
the importance of the moment, as Dominican Univer- girl, however, and, in hindsight, that East
sity celebrates the 800th anniversary of the Order of Coast “grit,” high heels and high
Preachers, and because, as significant, I feel the weight of expectations, were my offerings to the Dominican
the brown paper bag entrusted to me by the Dominican sisters as a first lay president. I walk fast and
women of Sinsinawa. with purpose, always. I remember Sister
This is a reflection about the inside of that bag— Kaye Ashe once saying to me, “Providence
about how it has shaped and enriched my life and provides, but don’t hesitate to give her a little
leadership, and more important, about how we, as a nudge every once in a while.” Little did she
Dominican community—faculty, staff, students and know! I had a mantra in my early deliber-
alumnae/i—are challenged to build upon that legacy. ations with the board: to not do it is not an
alternative. In other words, like Samuel, I am
In the Beginning a relentless doer—and as he said of himself,
More than 20 years ago, in April of 1995, I was inau- so describes me: “I am a Dominican and a
gurated as President of Rosary College, with a liturgy in warm one, like a Jesuit in disguise.”
“When my Jesuit uncle this very chapel. As the festivities were winding down,
had his first heart attack, my former boss, Joe O’Hare, S.J., then president of A Defining Legacy
he called me back to Fordham University, gave me a big hug and said, “For In her seminal book, Composing a Life,
New York City and gave years you have talked to me about all this touchy-feely, Mary Catherine Bateson asks a provocative President Donna M. Carroll
me a brown paper bag. process stuff. Now you have found an entire community question: Do we live our lives first and
In it were all the family like you!” retrospectively compose them, or do we first
cemetery plots, reaching I think that we all know the meaning of a good fit. compose them and then live according to the
back to when my great- You feel it in your heart, even if you cannot describe it. plot line? be no congregation or college. I know now commanding presence of Sister Vincent Saint Clara College to Rosary in 1922, as
great-grandmother on my Natural inclinations, like an open office door or the gift I know now that my Dominican life story that they were the instigators of my presi- Ferrer Bradford, OP, in the classroom and well as our residence, from Wisconsin to
mother’s side stepped off of a home phone number or the everlasting pursuit of is part invention, part discovery and part dency, creating the context in which a small, in politics; and our beloved Sister Clemente, Illinois; in the 1930s we added graduate
the boat from Ireland. a well-crafted sentence, are immediately familiar, and calling. I may be the caretaker of that brown struggling institution could risk hiring the scholar, musician and master teacher. And, of education, and then went co-ed in the
The stewardship of legacy, ultimately iconic—because they embody the character of paper bag but the legacy within that bag has youngest college president in the country. course, I am indebted to my own formation 1970s. In other words, history dictated a
consciously or uncon- the institution. defined me, as a woman, as a Catholic and Fast forward 70-plus years to the artful directors—Candida, Cyrille, Diane and Me- courageous path.
sciously, has always been Interestingly enough, I was not raised professionally as a president. It has provided that safe space and persistent leadership of Mother Samuel lissa—who raised me to be, to the best of my Had it not been for the integrating vision
a part of the fabric of to fit in, or to stay put, for that matter. Quite the con- for my emerging voice, just as I provide Coughlin, OP, in debate with Cardinal ability, bold, well-spoken, steadfast and kind, of feminism and justice that I found here
my life.” trary, I was mentored to aspire high, achieve early and space for undocumented students. After all, Mundelein about the location of Rosary at least some of the time. These are pioneer- among the Dominicans, I would not have
move on—so the sense of place-and-relationship that I I am a first-generation lay president, and as a College. He wanted a women’s college in ing women, feminists without fanfare, who the adult Catholic faith that I have today.
discovered at Rosary was unexpected. Like many of my woman leader in the Catholic Church, I am, the city; she sought space and beauty. We all dedicated their lives to mission. And my life, And I know now, through experience, how
faculty colleagues, I came from academic privilege, and arguably, undocumented. know how that story ended—a triumph of and each of yours, is richer by inheritance inseparable faith and leadership are in the
it was assumed that I would settle among the privileged There are so many wonderful stories and emotional intelligence, creating the plat- and association. context of a Catholic university. Every
and pursue my individual pathway to success. Instead, models of strong women of purpose in that form for so many future stories and lessons It was the bold decisions of past sister choice, every investment, every word spoken
the Dominican family offered me an alternate, more Dominican bag. Consider the original four learned. presidents that gave me the comfort and the is a statement of mission. And while the
equitable worldview, and the opportunity to put my Dominican “cornerstones”—Josephine, I think of Sister Aurelia and her courage license to change the name of Rosary College academy is not the sacramental Church, with a
skills and drive to work in the service of a collaborative Clara, Ignatia and Rachel—without whose in welcoming the first African American to Dominican University in 1997. After capital “c,” our small “c” Catholic Dominican
mission—and in your service. That became my privilege. courage and youthful resolve there would students to Rosary in the 1950s; and the all, we had changed our name before, from University must be a vibrant example of a faith-
16 Dominican Magazine FALL 2016 Dominican Magazine FALL 2016 17Last summer I had the
opportunity to visit the
THE STEWARDSHIP OF LEGACY Roman Basilica di Santa
Sabina, the mother church
of the Dominicans since
1222. How absolutely
filled community: thoughtful, forthright say to your constituents, “Trust me. I made that our lifestyle, grounded in meaningful element upon which Don and I agree, but In other words, there is an expansive and
in our values, inclusive, loving and open the best decision for the good of the univer- dialogue, relationship and a commitment
cool it was to see Samuel
frame somewhat differently. There is warmth integrating element to vocation. It is the
to that spirit of encounter described by sity.” And then the bank account needs to to the common good, is countercultural.
Mazzuchelli’s name on
and immediate connection to the concept engine that turns a good idea into a plan
Pope Francis. The president of a Catholic be replenished. So how do we make sense of this academic the wall of past residents, of action, and a group of individuals into a
of friendship that I believe should be the
university must be the guardian of that Tenure and graduation are blood ties, so life that we have chosen (or in some cases, along with Dominic and promise of a Dominican education, in the brown-bag-inspired community.
tradition—and sometimes, its loving critic. it is a faulty assumption for a president to upon which we have stumbled), and what Thomas Aquinas.... Of classroom and among the providers. That is Which brings me to my third element:
think that she is running a business. Rather, do we do, as a community, to strengthen course, it made me wish a tall order in today’s busy, fractured world, engagement or agency. When it comes to the
Lessons Learned I have come to approach university leader- and advance it? that I had inherited a wall because it requires a deeper knowing, a promise of a Dominican education, the proof
So how has all of the above shaped and ship as if I am navigating the complexities Although it may sound odd, I believe instead of a bag of ceme- higher level of care and constant mindful- is in the practice. Dominic established the
enriched my service as president? Let me share of an extended family, where everything that we begin with a recognition of our tery plots, but it also made ness of the other. I sometimes wonder at the Order of Preachers to be useful—trusting in
a few specific lessons learned. is personal. Our Dominican family has differences, and the constraints and oppor- me so very proud of our resilience of friendship when I walk out of God’s grace and sensitive to the signs of the
I am not a great role model for balance. particularly deep ties, anchored by religious tunities inherent in an increasingly diverse Samuel. He was the real an Academic Council meeting. Then again, I time. It is no coincidence that Rosary College
vocation; and those ties create high expec- community. “This is not your mother’s
In fact, I do not think in terms of balance. deal. know that we can do better, be kinder. was an early adopter of graduate professional
The presidency is not a job that I fit into tations for all of us. Sometimes they invite college anymore,” as a limited edition Timothy Radcliffe, OP, refers to teaching education, not because we were straying from
my week; rather, it is the life that I live. deep disappointments, and the president T-shirt once advertised. We are no longer an as an act of friendship. Friendship, he says, our liberal arts roots or selling our soul, but
I used to try to separate role and person, shoulders that burden. undergraduate women’s college, staffed by “is the place where we learn the truth about because those professional degrees produced
to avoid being wounded by the inevitable Ultimately, then, as president, I have a congregation of religious sisters—though ourselves and others, and what it means to be mission-centered practitioners. Today, under-
darts that come at leadership. At Domin- learned that leadership is all about creating we cherish those among us. We are a com- in a relationship.” Each year, I look toward standing the signs of this time, Dominican
ican, I learned to integrate the two—to and sustaining a context for hope and new plex university community of lay scholars, that moment midway through freshman University is expanding into the health sciences—
embrace the joy and the heartbreak that opportunities. While the brown paper bag teachers and professional staff, with differ- year, when a student is comparing her college again, to be useful, anchored by mission.
happen when you leave your door open and provides our sense of history and identity, it ent backgrounds, interests and affiliations, experience to that of friends at larger univer- Of course, civic and religious engagement
lead with care. I am a relentless attender is what we add to that bag, our own stories working with an equally complex student sities. Can she say that she prefers Dominican remain foundational elements of the under-
of Dominican functions, from lectures to and talents, that help to ensure the future of body, demographically, financially, experi- because of the quality of the new friendships graduate liberal arts curriculum, and now
soccer games to the recent Mr. Dominican the Dominican tradition. entially, and in its aspirations. Appreciating that she is developing, in and out of the class- the program for the future Student Com-
Pageant, a practice that Sister Jean Murray this rich diversity and fully engaging that room? That is a worthy aspiration. mons, precisely because such experiential and
describes as a “ministry of presence.” Legacy Building difference in the service of one mission is To make such relationships pervasive co-curricular activities deepen classroom learning,
I know now that presidential leadership It is no surprise then that our 2016 the task of our day. requires an unusually high level of involve- through application and reflection.
is about showing up every day—trying to Dominican Jubilee is titled “So Proudly ment, and so my second core element is My fourth element brings me full circle, to
be fair, and honest, and dependable. It is Dominican: 800 Years and Counting on The Pillars clarity of purpose, or, for some, vocation. the primary task of our academic enterprise.
about being useful, getting the lights turned You”—because the Dominican tradition is Several years ago, Don Goergen, OP, wrote You have heard the often-quoted definition I believe wholeheartedly that achieving the
on and the bills paid, so that the primary ever evolving, and the next chapter is ours an essay titled “The Pillars Revisited,” in of vocation as “the place where your deep promise of a distinctly Dominican education
task of the university, excellent teaching and to compose. which he attempted to make the core ele- gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” in our day depends upon a commitment to
learning, can proceed without distraction. Let me be clear, so as not to inflate our ments of the Dominican tradition—study, By deep gladness, do you suppose that the inclusive excellence. Excellent teaching—that
In other words, it is not about me. It is own importance: this university is one small prayer, community and service—more Built in 422, Santa Sabina author means contentment, or does he mean special blend of rigor, care and engagement—
about each of you—and about engaging piece of a much larger Dominican story. We accessible to a contemporary audience. It represented a high point of the kind of joy that encourages you to truly always has been our hallmark. And the Order
church building in its day. The
the Dominican intellectual and spiritual add to that story at Dominic’s invitation, occurred to me that this talk may be the invest in a mission or a degree or a project, of Preachers, the Sinsinawa Dominicans and
new Order of Preachers assumed
heritage for generations to come. because for him, and for us through him, right time to revisit that exercise, with a lay responsibility for the care of the even when it causes you to suffer at times? Dominican University, by inheritance, always
At Dominican, I learned that the ulti- what is essential is the pursuit of the truth. lens and a focus on the academy. church in 1222. I like to think that that is also a part of the have been committed to issues of equity and
mate currency in academic life, especially And for this reason, the Dominican story So, I asked myself: from my own 20- promise of our distinctively Dominican diversity. However, the challenge of inclusive
in a radically democratic community like always marries tradition to the signs of the time. plus years of Dominican experience, and experience—that kind of resilient joy. But excellence is more expansive. It leaves no
ours, is trust. And trust must be managed The times are inevitably challenging for looking to the future, what are the key it is only sustainable if each of us establishes course or program untouched. It requires
intentionally, like dollars in a bank account. a university like Dominican, because, by elements that should bind us together and some authentic connection with the mission everyone’s involvement—and ultimately
Sometimes a president has to make a quick mission and circumstance, we live at the shape our future agenda as a distinctively of the university, beyond discipline, job or it should transform our very definition of
decision without much consultation. You edge—“where the work is great and diffi- Dominican academic community? degree—and then actively participates from excellence, and all that makes us so proudly
need to have accumulated sufficient trust to cult,” in Samuel’s words. Some might say Let me begin with friendship, an that deep connection. Dominican.
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Dominican family, still take to heart his
directive “to make college as much like home
as possible.”
I offer these four pillars—inclusive excel-
The End
lence, purpose, agency and friendship—as
a new interpretation of an old story, and as And it is that stewardship of legacy has
guideposts for future planning. always has been a part of the fabric, and the
privilege, of my life.
About Samuel I mentioned earlier that I am the oldest
daughter of the oldest daughter. What I
Last summer I had the opportunity to visit
did not mention is that today, by some
the Roman Basilica di Santa Sabina, the
weird, cosmic alignment, is the anniversary
mother church of the Dominicans since
of my mother’s death. When I got the call
1222. How absolutely cool it was to see
that she died 13 years ago, I dug frantically
Samuel Mazzuchelli’s name on the wall of
through the closets of my house to find the
past residents, along with Dominic and
brown paper bag—and I hopped on a plane
Thomas Aquinas and so many other famil-
to New York with more plots than clothes.
iar historical figures. Of course, it made me
As I sat down with my siblings to revisit our
wish that I had inherited a wall instead of a bag
family tree and decide on a final resting place
of cemetery plots, but it also made me so very
for my mother, I remember that my younger
proud of our Samuel. He was the real deal.
sister looked at me, rolled her eyes and said,
So, how do we understand the con-
“Donna, mom would never want to be
tributions of founding father Samuel
buried in Brooklyn.” And so the story of the
Mazzuchelli, OP, to our Dominican brown
Driscolls in America began a new chapter.
paper bag—so that we can handle with
WISDOM and INSPIRATION care? I tend to credit Samuel with the
More than 22 years ago, the Dominican
Father Samuel
women of Sinsinawa entrusted me with
n Tuesday, August 30, the second the legacy that we recognize today reaches practical essentials. For instance, we can Mazzuchelli, OP
their brown paper bag, and in so doing,
day of the school year, more than far beyond a particular discipline, beyond trace our liberal arts roots to Samuel. And, In 1828, Samuel
began a new chapter—with my leadership
200 members of the Dominican fam- any one style of instruction or publication or were it not for him, Dominican University Mazzuchelli, a young
ily gathered in Rosary Chapel to say leadership. It defines a way of being
and, through me, with the thoughtful
The Honorees: might not have the breadth and rigor in the
engagement of each of you. The steward-
Dominican, left his native
farewell to four of their own. Dominican—born of deep conviction,
sciences that it has today. Milan for what was then
The congregants at the evening prayer nurtured by study, lived in community and ship of this legacy is a gift, and ultimately, a
Sister Philip Mary Reilly Samuel was a feminist who believed that called the American West.
service included students, faculty, staff, in good conscience, and revealed to us in shared responsibility.
RETIRED PROFESSOR OF SPANISH AND
sisters, trustees and graduates from classes countless deeds of courage and mercy. young women should have the same access He traversed vast distances
MENTOR TO STUDENTS AND FACULTY As Dominican University celebrates
spread over six decades. They came from as These four sisters embody the distinction to higher education as young men. For his around the Great Lakes
the 800th anniversary of the Order of
far away as St. Louis to mark the departure Sister Jean Murray that we promise to our students—a standard day, that was a miracle. And to this day, to minister to a far-flung
from campus of four women who, taken of thought and care that we strive to achieve
Preachers, we recognize, with deep respect
PROFESSOR OF FRENCH AND Dominican maintains a deep respect for the flock. In 1847, he founded
together, had provided more than 200 years PRESIDENT EMERITA daily. And so, it is with a heightened sense and affection, the many great Dominicans,
leadership and contributions of women. a community of Dominican
of service to the university community. of responsibility, as well as deep gratitude, sisters, nuns and friars, whose contributions
The four women, listed at right, were that we gather in this place, to raise up this
Samuel embraced diversity. He would sisters in Sinsinawa, a
Sister Jeanne Crapo have shaped our Dominican story, and
leaving the university to live in retirement at RETIRED PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND legacy. applaud the work of our language access hamlet in the Wisconsin
upon whose shoulders we stand today. We
Sinsinawa Mound, the motherhouse of the FORMER UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST “As our hearts swell with feelings of task force. He was also a trailblazer in Territory. The following
also recognize the signs of the time, the
Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters of the Most loss, we take solace in the gospel’s promise interfaith dialogue, encouraging a religiously year, with the sisters,
Holy Rosary, where each of them had pro- Sister Clemente Davlin that ‘a city on a mountain cannot be hid- emerging role of lay leaders. And we under-
mixed student body to “form one family he launched St. Clara
fessed vows years before. PROFESSOR EMERITA OF ENGLISH AND den’—that this move to the Mound will not stand, with some trepidation and joy, that
in peace and harmony.” Academy, an ambitious
“Without question, these are four great SCHOLAR OF MEDIEVAL LITERATURE extinguish the light of these four sisters, but the Dominican family is counting on us—
scholar-teachers, each with a lengthy and (HONORED IN ABSENTIA) rather focus it, like a brightly lit lamp, toward
Finally, Samuel was a builder—not school for young women
you and me—to continue the Dominican
lauded history in the classroom,” President which we are continually drawn for wisdom only of churches and schools, but also of that ultimately became
story—which we will do, in our own way,
Donna M. Carroll said at the service. “But and inspiration.” communities. And we, the contemporary Dominican University.
in our own time, just as Dominic intended.
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