Campus Life

What does it mean to be human in the age of artificial intelligence? 

Six Saint Anselm College faculty members with backgrounds in natural and social sciences will draw on their professional expertise to discuss Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica humanitas in this moderated conversation. Audience members both in-person and online will be invited to ask questions.

Light refreshments will be available. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

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Meet the Panelists:

• Theresa Dabruzzi – Biological Sciences
• Ian Durham - Physics
• Anne Holthoefer – Politics
• Aubrey Schoepner-Torres – Education; Director of the First-Year Experience
• Amy Schmidt – Economics and Business
• Sara Smits-Keeney – Sociology & Social Work; Peace and Justice Studies

This is a four-part course. All four courses are required to earn the certificate. You do not have to sign up for all four courses at once. The four courses can be taken in any order.

DESCRIPTION: This innovative online certificate program is designed to explore the various components necessary to develop and run simulation scenarios within an academic or clinical setting.

WHO: Any nurse practicing in an education role who is interested in developing or working in a simulation program. This would be applicable to nurse educators in academia or healthcare facilities, preceptors, mentors, or staff nurses who are interested in learning more about this teaching pedagogy.

WHY: The content will provide the nuts and bolts of simulation to include how to assess educational needs, develop, implement and evaluate simulation experiences.

WHAT: In order to receive this 60-hour certificate (equal to 60 contact hours), completion of the four modules is required. Each module is 15 contact hours and is taught in an online format: 6 hours virtual live webinar, 9 hours online utilizing discussion boards and case studies, and required reading over the course of 4 weeks in an asynchronous manner.
 

Module 3: Desiging and Implementing Simulation Scenarios

Topics: nursing education simulation framework incorporating roles of facilitator and participant, educational practices, simulation outcomes and design characteristics.

Learning Outcome: Upon successful completion of this module, the participant will be able to discuss the important components of simulation design and important aspects to consider for simulation scenario implementation in both the hospital and academic settings

Agenda for Live Day:

• Session 1: Components of the NLN/Jeffries Simulation Theory and the INACSL Standards for Best Practice: Simulation Design
• Session 2: Fidelity in Simulation: The physical, conceptual, and psychological components of fidelity
• Session 3: The constructs of participant, facilitator, and educational practices as they relate to simulation scenario design and implementation
• 4 weeks of Readings and Discussion Board Posts and Responses on the Canvas LMS platform

September 30- October 27, 2026, live virtual webinar on September 30, 2026

Cost: $350
 

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“The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed.” This headline from a New York Times editorial written by Harvard and Yale law professors is a more hyperbolic expression of a view increasingly prominent in the writings of law professors, journalists, political scientists, and politicians who deem the Constitution to be “broken,” “paralyzing,” “undemocratic,” and “obsolete.”

Join us for a discussion with Dennis Hale and Marc Landy of Boston College, authors of Keeping the Republic: A Defense of American Constitutionalism, as they provide a defense of American constitutionalism in the face of those criticisms.

The authors argue that such critics often forget what the Constitution attempts to achieve: a republican form of government in a nation as large as an empire. Complicating matters is that America was the first modern state—the first to be shaped by the expectation that government exists to protect natural rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”—and that it had to cope with inherent difficulties modernity poses for a diverse, as well as incurably commercially minded, society.

The Framers recognized that to sustain republican government in such circumstances required both an embrace of modernity and a determination to tame modernity’s most anti-republican excesses. This framework for building and constraining a modern state remains the best one for coping with the problems modernity still poses.

Peter B. Josephson, Professor of Politics at Saint Anselm College, will moderate the discussion.

Books will be available for purchase, and a book signing with the authors will follow.

This event is free and open to the public. No advance registration required.
 

Bio:

Dennis Hale served as a professor of political science at Boston College for 47 years, including as department chair, before retiring. His publications include The Jury in America: Triumph and Decline and Keeping the Republic: A Defense of American Constitutionalism, co-authored with Marc Landy. His insights have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Epoch Times.

Marc Landy is Professor of Political Science at Boston College. He and Dennis Hale authored Keeping the Republic: A Defense of American Constitutionalism. He and Sidney Milkis authored Presidential Greatness. His most recent article Democrats Search Their Souls, appeared in National Affairs, Summer 2025. He is also a frequent media commentator, appearing on outlets such as NPR and the BBC to discuss executive power and American governance.

Peter B. Josephson is a Professor of Politics at Saint Anselm College, specializing in political theory and philosophy. He has published articles and book chapters on politics and popular culture, the political philosophy of Henry Kissinger, the roots of modern political economy, religion and liberal politics, and the political practices of classical liberalism. His books include works on John Locke and, with co-author R. Ward Holder, on the presidency of Barack Obama and the political theology of Reinhold Niebuhr.

Wednesday, September 30th at 7:30pm

A Dance Revolution

The Geisel Library will host its 36th Annual Book Sale Friday, October 2 - Sunday, October 4, 2026. The book sale includes thousands of books across academic disciplines and genres, fiction and non-fiction alike. This year's sale includes extensive offerings in literature and drama, history, arts, religion and so much more. Also on sale are DVDs, VHS tapes and music CDs.

Hours

Pricing

Cash and credit card accepted

• $1 paperbacks and audiovisual materials
• $2 hardcover books

*A separate specials table will be set up for unique titles and large book sets with separate pricing.

Professor Marc Rugani, Theology Department

Ella Calisi ‘29