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On The Hill

Signature Experience Lets Students Who Study Away Dive Deeper

by  Stephanie Ash

Study away as a Gustavus Signature Experience means encounters with new worlds intentionally framed to inform students’ future professional lives.

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Great Reads

How Does Gustavus Use AI?

by  Stephanie Ash

Professors Rachel Flynn (Library and Archives) and Guarionex Salivia (Computer Science) co-chair the AI Fellows, which shapes AI on campus.

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Community

Gusties Gather: Fall 2026

by  Stephanie Ash

Around the world, Gusties get together. Here are several. Do you have photos of your favorite Gusties gathering?

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Great Reads

Teaching Students to Be Well

by  Stephanie Ash

A student’s efficacy in dealing with the messiness of being a human being relates to their ability to live a productive, purposeful life.

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Great Reads

20 Years of Public Discourse

by  Stephanie Ash

The Communication Studies faculty reinvented a required public speaking course—into something AI can’t do.

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Shine

SHINE: Jon Ivan Gill

by  Emily Elveru

Somewhere between Plato, the Bible, and MC Hammer is the heart of this philosopher-professor-artist.

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Shine

SHINE: Pamela Conners

by  Stephanie Ash

The interim Gustavus provost and dean of the college on truth, discourse, and what’s in students’ pockets.

The president of a college in robes with the college's official staff upon his inauguration.
Great Reads

The Inauguration of John Volin, President of Gustavus

by  Stephanie Ash

On April 17, 2026, the college’s new president received the Presidential Rites of Installation.