Each year, just before the semester begins, the college president hosts a welcome-back dinner for all faculty and staff. The highlight of the evening comes at the end of the meal, when tiny chocolate cups of Frigolet – a Norbertine…
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New Roles, New Paths
If you’ve visited the St. Norbert College Magazine page on Facebook recently, you’ll have noticed new energy and a new voice. It’s the work of publications intern Emilie Smith ’20, who’s taken this channel under her wing – and lots…
A Slow Day at the Office
Today I’m practicing slow journalism. Today I said yes to an opportunity to which common sense dictated I say no. I drove south instead of north. I skipped the office, I went well off-campus; out on a limb, on the lam…
Food for Thought
Prediction: The top reader takeaways from our new issue will be two notes on food. 1) Gum as important study aid: “If you chew a certain flavor while you study for a test, then chew the same flavor during the…
Readers Everywhere You Look
We generate two new mailing lists – U.S. and Foreign – for every issue and it’s always cool to see how far we will travel. It’s the little tiny places that intrigue me the most. We have readers in the…
Things I Found Out This Week
I feel I live my working life pretty much chained to my desk but, any time I venture out on campus, it’s dangerous – you invariably come back with a story. Among things I found out this week: Two of…
Little Details, Big Deal
We did a couple of things differently in our summer issue, and I’d say the chances are high you haven’t spotted ’em yet! 1) It’s our habit to run a class year after the name each time we mention a…
In-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 bolded lead-in phrase (there’s probably a term for it) to…
Great 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 who could. I…
A 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 work there –…
