River Forest, IL – Dominican University will present Guatemalan filmmaker and social activist Luis Argueta in the Annual Lund-Gill Lecture on Thursday, November 18 at 7 p.m.  Argueta will share his personal experiences as a child impacted by the CIA’s 1950s Cold War activities in Guatemala, and discuss his decision to speak out about social injustices in his birth country--and in the U.S., his adopted country. The lecture will be held in the Martin Recital Hall.

Dominican University will host its annual Fair Trade Fair—just in time for the holidays—on Wednesday, November 10 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Parmer Hall Atrium, 7900 W. Division Street. The event will feature a wide range of products created by international artisans and sold by the following Chicago area organizations dedicated to sustainability, ethical production methods, and fair wages for workers across the world.

The Wednesday Journal wrote an article about Dominican University's celebration of Dia de los Muertos with the creation of four ofrendas across campus honoring loved ones who have passed. The ofrendas were built by many students and represented their experiences of loss and hope during the past year and a half, a period marked by COVID-19, racial reckoning and gun violence. 

Lisa Petrov, Title V project director and assistant professor of Spanish, co-authored, with Gina Garcia, an article in the American Psychology Association's Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. In "Becoming a racially just Hispanic-serving institution: Leveraging HSI grants for organizational identity change," the authors discuss how the 569 colleges and universities designated as HSIs can move from Latinx-enrolling to Latinx-serving, a status that requires institutions to become race-conscious and equity-minded.

Dominican alumna Maisie Sparks '10 wrote an article in Christian Science Monitor about a conversation she had with two neighbors concerning race and childhood racial experiences. The conversation was prompted by media attention on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre.  

Photo by Christian Science Monitor. 

Vice President of Student Success and Engagement Barrington Price wrote an op-ed in the Daily Herald Business Ledger discussing why Dominican is ranked #3 in the Midwest in US News & World Report's social mobility category. 

Sheila Bauer-Gatsos, associate professor of English; Tina Taylor-Ritzler, professor of psychology; and Mark Carbonara, director of advising and first-year experience, were quoted in an article in Diverse Issues in Higher Education. The three led a workshop for the virtual Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU)  35th annual conference, during which they shared tips that Dominican has used for improving student success metrics.

Kamil Orozco, a Dominican senior, is serving as a research technician fellow with Morton Arboretum's tree health program. In this video, created as part of the arboretum's fundraising campaign, she is conducting data analysis on trees in La Villita Park in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. "Trees are our first line of defense," she says in the video, which you watch here. 

Alumna Michelle Agins ’77 was profiled in the New York Times, where she has been a photographer for more than three decades. Agins' work was showcased in a retrospective this fall at the Photoville Festival in New York.

U.S. News & World Report ranks Dominican University #10 in the Midwest in its prestigious 2022 Best Colleges publication for the second year in a row.