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student expectations based on childhood experience she can scarcely even imagine. Applied Feminist Pedagogy Applying feminist pedagogy to the foreign language classroom means asking how our theory and practice connect. The aims of feminist pedagogy are, first, to empower students to direct their own learning; second, to reduce hierarchical differences in student-teacher interactions; and third, to expose the biases and objectives of educational agendas. In the foreign language classroom, despite the

summer before my senior year of high school and fell in love with the campus immediately; everyone I met with was incredibly kind and welcoming. After hearing a little about the Environmental Studies program and the opportunities I would have to study away, I was hooked. I applied, got accepted, and received a pretty awesome financial aid package. I was amazed how perfectly everything fell into place. An added bonus was the fact that I wouldn’t have to deal with the harsh Minnesota winters any more

and determine links between data sets. Specific species of flora were consistently present in the pro-glacial environment along with trends of increasing densities of vegetation the further away from the terminus of the glacier and from the wetted edge of the river. This study brings to light another way to track and understand the activeness of a pro-glacial environment. Future work will include a refined approach that can be applied to more glaciers within the park. Claire E. Todd, Ph.D., and

the new BA and, in many fields, the applied Doctorate will be the new MA. While have a solid foothold in graduate education, we have, in recent years, tended to focus our greatest energy on undergraduate education. In the next decade, our focus will need to broaden (not change, but broaden) to include new Master’s and possible Doctoral programs. Our mission challenges us to do our part in meeting these emerging educational needs, and our opportunities for enrollment growth and financial return are

slight grin to a unique angle. I have always admired those who have captured that in their art, be it painters like Chuck Close and Frida Kahlo, or photographer Dorothea Lange. My work tends to be realis- tic, and I prefer to paint or draw with detail to represent the clarity of who a person is through the clarity of the image. Apparent texture or stylistic choice applied to my work, such as short painterly brushstrokes, is intended to represent something about the personality or mental status of the