Tag: education

About 300 Gonzaga University students, Jesuits, faculty, staff, alumni, family and friends are expected to take part in the university’s 44th annual pilgrimage to the historic Mission of the Sacred Heart – or Cataldo Mission – in Cataldo, Idaho on Sept. 14, according to a press release. The pilgrimage is open to all members of the Gonzaga community.

The Gonzaga University School of Law will present the 2013 Red Mass for the Legal Profession at 5:30 p.m.,, Sept. 17 at the University Chapel in College Hall (502 E. Boone Ave.). A reception will follow from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Cowles Rare Book Reading Room, on the third Floor of the Foley Center Library.

With Michelle Wheatley’s anticipated promotion to director of University Ministry at Gonzaga, comes another first for the university.

Wheatley is the first laywoman to lead the program. Her promotion comes four years after the university elected Thayne McCulloh as its first lay president.

On Sept. 17, approximately 1,000 Whitworth students, faculty and staff will lend a hand to nonprofit organizations across Spokane in efforts to help strengthen the community, according to a press release.

Community Building Day is an annual Whitworth event that began in 1907 as a student-led campus-beautification endeavor called Campus Day. 

Please welcome our newest intern, Josie Camarillo.

Camarillo is a senior at Whitworth University seeking degrees both in English and psychology.

"Spokane Public Schools could have its own armed police force starting in January," The Spokesman Review reported this week.

As a safety measure, the district is considering having its 13 peace officers carry .40-caliber Glock pistols while on duty.

Twenty-five teachers from the Charles Lwanga College of Education in Zambia are currently at Gonzaga University as part of a program Gonzaga designed to help them, "realize their dream of turning their school into an independent university," according to a press release.

Gonzaga also said in the press release that it hopes the effort will assist the college in transforming teacher education in Zambia.