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Event Coverage  / News
Salve Regina’s families invited to Story Time with the Easter Bunny
salvetoday Posted On March 23, 2022


The Office of Alumni, Parent and Families will not hold its annual Easter Brunch and Egg Roll again this year, but they’ve decided to put on another virtual event with the Easter Bunny. On Sunday, April 3, at 11 a.m., Salve Regina families can join online for a Story Time with the Easter Bunny event. This event is co-sponsored by Sigma Phi Sigma. To register, go to the Eventbrite.

During the event, Sigma Phi Sigma students will be reading stories with the Easter Bunny. Coloring sheets will also be emailed to registrants in advance for children to color as they listen to the stories. Participants should register by Saturday, April 2, at the latest to ensure that they receive the coloring pages. Current staff, faculty and students can join the event, as well as alumni.

Sigma Phi Sigma is a National Mercy Honor Society in which members hold themselves to high standards of scholarship, fidelity and service. Some of Sigma Phi Sigma’s most notable events are helping at convocation and the Governor’s Ball, as well as Easter brunch event by welcoming guests, hosting the egg roll and making crafts with the children.

“Volunteering for the Alumni Easter Egg Roll was one of the most fun experiences I had while at Salve,” said Alley Harkness ’20, who was a Sigma Phi Sigma member. “All of the alumni were so kind, and all of their children were a joy to have on campus. It was a great way for alumni to stay connected to the University and for current students to meet alumni and see what the future could hold.”

Normally, funds raised through the Easter Brunch and Egg Roll event would benefit the Vision of Mercy Scholarship, but the Story Time with the Easter Bunny is free this year. If anyone would like to donate towards the scholarship, they can still do so.

To register for the event on Sunday, April 3, go to the event’s Eventbrite page.

Featured photo by Getty Images/kobeza


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Student Life
Committee seeks outstanding students for CLASS awards
salvetoday Posted On March 22, 2022


The Honors and Awards Committee will soon be considering nominations for the Campus Leadership and Student Service (CLASS) awards. Unlike other awards that recognize community service, these awards are specifically intended to recognize students for their demonstration of leadership and service to the University community.

Students will receive their awards at the Student Affairs Honors Dinner.

In order to qualify for a nomination, the student should be recognized by his or her peers, faculty, staff and administration as an outstanding contributor to the cohesiveness of the University community.

Please take time to carefully reflect on the students who have demonstrated the characteristics described on the nomination form. Please use a separate nomination form for each student and submit nominations by Friday, April 8.

Listed below are the names of students who have received this honor in previous years. These students are not eligible to be nominated again.

Isabelle Cole
Gregory Labrie
Anita Lahue
Izabella Mangual-Solivan
Alexia Moreno
Andrew Richard
Hannah Rossman
Georgia Rossetti
Emily Wyrick


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Event Coverage  / Graduate News  / Student Life
SRyou Student Exposition shares schedule of events for March 23
salvetoday Posted On March 22, 2022


SRyou Student Exposition is being held on Wednesday, March 23 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The day offers an opportunity for both undergraduate and graduate students to share curricular, co-curricular and extracurricular involvements with their peers, faculty, staff and community members.

The SRyou Student Exposition for 2022 will be held in a regular in-person format. There will be poster boards and table displays, as well as performing arts performances and presentations.

“Our theme this year is ‘Adventure is Waiting for SRyou,’” described Anita Lahue ’22, the SRyou Student Exposition planning committee chairwoman. “We wanted this theme to capture the spirit of curiosity and exploration that our presenters exhibit. Whether they are practicing a performance for hours on end, working closely with their faculty to complete ground-breaking research or going out into the community to serve others, the experiences we have at Salve take us on a journey of discovery and growth.”

Please visit the SRyou Student Exposition’s program to see what events will be held over the course of the day on Wednesday, March 23.

Photo from SRyou Student Exposition in 2019.

Due to current policies and procedures, SRyou is unable to welcome guests from outside of the immediate University community. It will be a safe environment for attendees by following the COVID-19 guidelines put forward by the University and the R.I. Department of Health. Masks and social distancing are required.

Through participating in this exposition, students benefit by:

  • Showcasing their academic, artistic and altruistic endeavors.
  • Developing professional presentation skills.
  • Enhancing their resumes.
  • Discovering the scope and diversity of the achievements of their peers.

Please visit the SRyou website for more information about SRyou Student Exposition, and the full schedule of events is located here. For more information, contact Lahue at anita.lahue@salve.edu, or email sryou@salve.edu.

Featured photo is of the SRyou Student Exposition in 2019. 


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Event Coverage  / News
Attend a conversation with Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League
salvetoday Posted On March 21, 2022


The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy’s spring 2022 lecture series is offering an event entitled “A Conversation with Marc Morial” on Tuesday, March 22, at 7 p.m. in the Pell Center’s Young Building at 518 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. The event will also be hybrid, and can be seen on the Pell Center’s Facebook page. To register, go here.

Marc Morial, who has been described as one of the few national leaders to possess “street smarts” and “boardroom savvy,” is the current president and CEO of the National Urban League, the nation’s largest historic civil rights and urban advocacy organization. He is a leading voice on the national stage in the battle for jobs, education, housing and voting rights equity.

Morial served as the highly successful and popular mayor of New Orleans as well as the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. He was also previously a Louisiana State Senator and was a lawyer in New Orleans with an active, high-profile practice.

Morial wrote about his leadership experiences and lessons in “The Gumbo Coalition,” which was published in 2020. The book was written to capture the leadership lessons of his mayoral race in New Orleans, when Morial built what he christened the “Gumbo Coalition,” an incredible mixture of all of New Orleans’s ingredients — African Americans, Whites, Latinos, Asians, business leaders, grassroots community activists, business leaders, clergy and more. This coalition was able to reduce crime and rebuild New Orleans’s reputation, which attracted Super Bowls, the NBA and the Essence Festival, the largest African American event in the nation.

A graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Pennsylvania, Morial has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential Black Americans by Ebony Magazine, one of the top 50 Non-Profit Leaders by the Non-Profit Times and one of the 100 Most Influential Black Lawyers in America. He has also been inducted into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia.

To register, go here.


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Pell Center to host lecture on American democracy with Congressman David Cicilline
salvetoday Posted On March 21, 2022


The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy and the League of Women Voters, Newport County will host Congressman David Cicilline as part of the Pell Center’s spring 2022 lecture series. The lecture will be held on Tuesday, March 22, at 11 a.m. in the Pell Center’s Young Building at 518 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. To register for this event, go here.

American democracy is under attack. Where the threat was long seen in terms of foreign disinformation, the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and efforts to suppress votes in state-houses across the country pose a substantial threat to the American republic. Congressman David Cicilline will explore the issues and update the audience on efforts in Washington, D.C., to protect American democracy.

Cicilline serves Rhode Island’s First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Cicilline is a leader in Congress on issues of core American values, serving as chairman of the House Antitrust Subcommittee, chair of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus, and vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

In Congress, Cicilline is working hard to restore the public’s confidence and trust in government by making our campaign finance system more transparent and by reducing the influence of corporate money in our elections. Cicilline has worked to overturn Citizens United, which opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate spending on elections, and continues to fight to end the influence of big money in our political system. He has also worked to clean up Congress by requiring every member of Congress to take annual ethics training.

Cicilline is also fighting to make it easier for people to participate in our democracy. He introduced the Automatic Voter Registration Act, which automatically registers people eligible citizens to vote at the DMV. Cicilline has also consistently supported efforts to renew the Voting Rights Act to prevent racial discrimination and ensure the voice of every American is heard in our democracy.

Prior to his election to Congress, Cicilline served two terms as mayor of Providence and four terms in the Rhode Island House of Representatives. He is a graduate of Brown University and the Georgetown University Law Center, and he resides today in Providence, Rhode Island.

The lecture will be held on Tuesday, March 22, at noon. To register for this event, go here.


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Mercy Mission  / News
Mercy Mondays: Chaplain’s Corner – Death and light during Lent
salvetoday Posted On March 21, 2022


The experience of death is always disturbing, but the death of a young person in the prime of life is overwhelming in its effects. It raises unanswerable questions, it challenges the very meaning and purpose of life, and it taxes our faith.

Recently at Salve Regina, there have been some sudden and tragic deaths. These tragedies have shocked the entire family at Salve Regina. Our hearts go out to their families and friends during this extremely difficult time.

We all have had experienced moments of black out when we are in the midst of watching Netflix and the TV goes off, listening to the radio and it goes silent, the elevator jerks to a halt, and worst of all the lights go out and we are plunged into darkness. Naturally we are upset and scared at times. We look for someone or something to blame for the black out. What do we do instinctively? We search for a light: a flashlight, a candle, a flame or even the light from our cell phone. Then what happens? The fear goes away, and we aren’t so angry or upset.

A sudden death can very much be like a blackout. One moment the sun is shining brightly and the next we thrown into what we consider to be an impenetrable darkness. So, just like an electrical blackout we need to search for the light that conquers darkness – Jesus Christ. Many times, we tend to question why? Sometimes we can blame it on human illness or sickness. Sometimes we just don’t know the answer, but what we can be certain is that God never wills evil.

During the season of Lent, we are asked to focus on the light of Christ that comes to us in a new way at Easter. The Catholic Church teaches that the season of Lent is a time of Hope. At liturgical celebrations the color violet is used in order to express and symbolize that hope. The hope that Christ has conquered death and has prepared a dwelling place for each one of us in his Father’s house in heaven, as described in John 14:1-6.

Today, we need to lean on this hope that presently awaits in this liturgical season.

This Lent has become a bit darker due to the loss of a beloved Salve Regina student. This tragic passing doesn’t negate the greatness of the light that we await at Easter. Just as Christ’s disciples encountered darkness after his death during an eclipse of the sun, so too, are we called to follow in their footsteps. After Christ’s death, the disciples went to Jesus and the Good News of the Resurrection was announced to the them — “He is not here, he is risen!” in Matthew 28:6.

My prayer for our Salve Regina family is that we can allow hope to grow in our hearts. Let’s pray that when we reach the great feast of Easter, we are comforted by the true light of Christ which comes to conquer all darkness.

Offered by Rev. Scott Pontes, chaplain at Salve Regina’s Our Lady of Mercy Chapel

This post is part of an ongoing series called Mercy Mondays that highlights Salve Regina’s dedication to its Mercy Mission. Search the tag Mercy Mission for more updates on the Mercy branches of Salve Regina.


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News
Salve Regina, Mary Immaculate College officials meet to bolster international collaboration
salvetoday Posted On March 17, 2022


Dr. Eugene Wall, president of Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland, visited Salve Regina today to engage in talks to bolster the college’s multi-pronged academic partnership with the University, a collaboration formally established between the two mercy institutions in 2007.

Joining with Wall and Holly Cowman, Mary Immaculate’s director of international engagement, were Salve Regina representatives Dr. Kelli J. Armstrong, president; Dr. Nancy Schreiber, provost/vice president for academic affairs; and Erin Fitzsgerald, director of the Center for Global Education and Fellowships.

“We’ve just had an enormously interesting time sharing different perspectives on education in our two countries and the mercy tradition in our two institutions,” Wall said. “It has allowed us to come to the United States, and it has allowed us to come here today. We’ve found a lot in common, and we plan to continue to develop that.”

Following the 2007 signing of a memorandum of understanding/bilateral exchange agreement between Mary Immaculate and Salve Regina, six Mary Immaculate students studied on Salve Regina’s campus between 2008 and 2014. The exchange agreement was revitalized in 2014, and since that time between two and four students have exchanged in both directions each academic year.

Mary Immaculate hosted Salve Regina’s two-week summer program in nursing in 2019, and in May, 15 nursing students will travel to Ireland along with two Salve Regina faculty for a program coordinated by Mary Immaculate and the University of Limerick’s nursing department. In addition to attending lectures, the Salve Regina contingency will visit health care and community organizations, including the Mercy Mission in Limerick, Ireland, and Mercy International House in Dublin, Ireland.

“We’re so blessed by this sister relationship across the ocean with Mary Immaculate College,” Armstrong said. “The fact that our students are welcome in this exchange and that we share these common values is deeply meaningful.”

Future collaborations between Salve Regina and Mary Immaculate are aimed at bolstering existing student exchange and short-term study abroad relationships. Faculty in Salve Regina’s Department of Education have expressed interest in developing collaborative research with Mary Immaculate faculty, and synergies between both institutions’ graduate programs for research and project-based residencies are being explored.

Founded in 1898, Mary Immaculate is a multi-campus liberal arts institution that is academically linked with the University of Limerick. The college enrolls more than 5,000 students in a variety of undergraduate programs in primary and post-primary education, liberal arts and early childhood care and education, with degrees at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels.


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Faculty/Staff  / News
Dr. Mary Keator publishes book on connecting spirituality, activism and education
salvetoday Posted On March 16, 2022


Dr. Mary Keator ’16 (PhD), adjunct professor in Salve Regina’s Ph.D. in humanities program and founder of Healthy Integrated Living, recently published “The Soul of Learning: Rituals of Awakening, Magnetic Pedagogy, and Living Justice.”

“My first book, ‘Lectio Divina as Contemplative Pedagogy,’ was the fruit of my years of study and practice, university teaching and Ph.D. studies,” Keator said. “It emphasized the need for reading, reflection, and contemplation in university classrooms.”

Published four years after Keator’s first book, “The Soul of Learning” was co-written by Dr. Vajra Watson, faculty director and professor of educational leadership and racial justice in the College of Education at Sacramento State University.

In “The Soul of Learning,” Keator and Watson connect spirituality, activism and education through activities, exercises and curated readings spanning various cultures and time-periods. It was inspired by Keator’s time in India in the winter of 2019-2020, along with her many years teaching world literature.

“I was invited to teach lectio divina as contemplative pedagogy to the professors at Dev Sanskriti University in Haridwar, India,” she said. “And to offer a keynote address for the first International Holistic Education Conference.”

Keator explained how the true inspiration for her new book surfaced from a conversation held outside the university’s walls. “While there, I met Dr. Watson. One day while walking to sit by the Ganges River, I shared with her the opening lines to ‘The Isha Upanishad, ‘” Keator said. “‘The Soul of Learning’ is the fruit of our dialogue that began in India.”

In her book, Keator offers parables, poems, scriptures and songs as a way to guide the reader and light the path to self-discovery, healing, sovereignty and beloved community. She hopes “The Soul of Learning” will become a trusted companion to its readers, helping them to better understand themselves and their place in this world.

“We have written it as an invitation to come to know oneself, love oneself and love one another,” she said.

But Keator’s hope for her book extends beyond the individual. Through “The Soul of Learning,” she hopes to reach educators, parents and policymakers, emphasizing the way in which spirituality not only encompasses education, but can inform it. She also underscores the significance of the soul. According to Keator, it’s the soul that awakens the desire to learn, deepens critical thinking, inspires creativity and builds compassionate classrooms.

Having gone through the struggles of meeting deadlines and writing through the COVID-19 pandemic, Keator’s dedication to the publication of “The Soul of Learning” shows the urgency that she felt to finish and share the book so that others can begin to embrace the lessons for themselves during a difficult time in the world.

“It was not just about the exterior writing process,” she said. “In order to write this way, we had to embody the words and live them. It was both beautiful and painful.”

Article written by student writer Taylor Majkowicz ’22


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News
“Fulfilling the Mercy Promise” is theme for Salve Regina’s 75th anniversary celebration
salvetoday Posted On March 15, 2022


In a letter sent on this day 75 years ago – March 15, 1947 – Robert Goelet gifted the family’s Newport mansion, Ochre Court, in memory of his father, Ogden Goelet. A special meeting of the Salve Regina Corporation was held five days later, when the deed to Ochre Court was officially presented to the Sisters of Mercy to establish the new college on Aquidneck Island.

In the short months that followed, the Sisters of Mercy turned their dream into reality. They officially opened the college to students on Sept. 25, 1947.

Today, the University is announcing the theme for its yearlong celebration – “Fulfilling the Mercy Promise” – to commemorate the milestones of Salve’s 75th anniversary year. The celebration will highlight the continued development of Salve Regina’s academic community and honor 75 years of mercy in higher education. The celebration will take place between September 2022 and September 2023.

In celebrating its 75th anniversary, the University recognizes Catherine McAuley and the Sisters of Mercy, who as leaders of change since 1831 have responded with one voice to the unmet needs of the times.

Throughout the anniversary year, the University will share its history as a transformative, academic community and showcase the many ways it continues fulfilling the mercy promise of giving light to those around us, seeking where we can make an impact, and working for a world that is harmonious, just and merciful.

In her inaugural address in 2019, Dr. Kelli J. Armstrong, Salve Regina’s president, reflected on the legacy of the Sisters of Mercy and how their vision will endure in Salve Regina’s future.

“There is a deep need at this moment in history for an institution like Salve Regina and its graduates – a need for the depth and power of a Mercy education,” Armstrong said. “Salve has never lost sight of who we are. We have always stood behind our beliefs and our commitment to the idea that each student has a gift to bring to the world as well as the responsibility to do so.”


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Health and Wellness  / Student Life
Class of 2022 embrace their Senior Challenge, focus on mental wellness
salvetoday Posted On March 15, 2022


For nearly 25 years, senior classes at Salve Regina have embraced a cause, set a goal and subsequently smashed their Senior Challenge. The Class of 2022 is no different.

Senior Challenge is an opportunity for graduating students to complement their Salve Regina experience by participating in a shared tradition that exemplifies the University’s culture of mercy and philanthropy.

When it was time to choose the cause that most closely connects the Class of 2022 to the campus community, the answer was clear: the Salve Student Wellness Fund. While the experience of every graduating class is different, this year’s seniors have had an experience more unique than most. For the last two years, they have dealt with COVID-19 and the pressures of the pandemic.

As the pandemic became more prolonged, challenges to student wellness became more pronounced, impacting the student experience on every level. No one was untouched. Whether the toll was felt academically, emotionally or financially, achieving personal goals was that much harder. Consequently, the demand for wellness initiatives – including mental health resources – increased.

The Salve Student Wellness Fund was established to address student wellness holistically – emotionally, intellectually, physically, socially and spiritually. Gifts to this fund support initiatives that help students cope, overcome and thrive.

The Class of 2022 Senior Challenge Committee is raising funds for their Senior Challenge through an online campaign. They will also raise funds through community events, senior gatherings and the annual Senior Cocktail Reception.

Anyone can learn more about Senior Challenge, the Salve Student Wellness Fund and watch the Class of 2022 campaign video here. For questions, please contact Mitchell Marsh at mitchell.marsh@salve.edu.


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