Academics
New VPAA Reilly
March 6, 2024
Incoming Beacon College vice president for academic affairs Dr. Kevin Reilly understands that to avoid disrupting a good thing, it’s going to take a lot of input from the people who are already on the ground.
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Strozzo Photoshops Learning into Teaching Students on the Other Side of the World
February 6, 2024
During the winter holiday season, Beacon College's Brittany Strozzo served as a teacher for Project Discovery in the United Arab Emirates.
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Love of Books Unites Beacon Couple in a Chapter of Romance
February 1, 2024
Beacon College has a handful of married couples working on campus, but to celebrate Valentine’s Day, we’re profiling one couple’s extraordinary international tale.
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New Global Ed Programs Takes Students to Land of the Rising Sun
December 8, 2023
A new study abroad program will send Beacon College students to the land of anime, gaming, and technology for 12 weeks starting in February.
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Record Class Learns College Hacks at Annual Convocation
September 5, 2023
As Alexander Morris-Wood surveyed the faces in Beacon College’s incoming class of 168 students — a school record and the most competitive class Beacon has ever had — gathered at the Venetian Center, he realized the numbers only told part of the story.
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National Numbers Show Attending Beacon is a “Sticky” Experience
September 5, 2023
New data shows that colleges across the country have quickly overcome pandemic-related struggles to retain students — and the numbers are even better at Beacon College.
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Student Artists Featured in Mason Art Gallery Color Pencil Painters Guild Exhibit
July 5, 2023
By Mary Wymer The Kristin Michelle Mason Art Gallery at Beacon College is hosting a summer exhibition uniting the creative talents of the Color Pencil Painters Guild (CPPG) and promising Beacon College student artists.
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Beacon Student Presents at Regional Psych Convention
April 27, 2023
Laney Leichter recently showed off her researching prowess on a big stage last month when she presented research she conducted as a Beacon College student at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Sh (No Longer) Happens: Beacon Library Turns Page on Tradition
April 27, 2023
By Richard Burnett Almost a decade ago, the popular cable series “The Librarians” materialized onto the small screen with a team of super-smart heroes who used their powers to battle mysterious foes and save the world from dangerous magic.
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Annual Student Art Exhibit Showcases Creativity of Budding Masters at Work
April 4, 2023
If art, as Pablo Picasso once observed, “is the elimination of the unnecessary,” the recent Annual Juried Student Exhibition in the Kristen Michelle Mason Art Gallery at Beacon College was an essential opportunity for the college’s creatives to showcase how all their brushwork, moulding, welding, carving, casting, and assemblage brilliantly produced what Picasso so eloquently
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ChatGPT Authors New Frontiers — and Challenges — in Classrooms
March 31, 2023
By Richard Burnett Earlier this year, Dr. James Fleming was teaching a course in assistive technology when he “met” ChatGPT, thanks to an enterprising student.
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Technology Professor Fleming Stands the Test of Time and Teaching
February 8, 2023
By Gabrielle Russon When Hurricane Frances peeled off the roof of Beacon College’s education building, there was the professor himself, Dr.