Updates and Announcements

  • September 10, 2025
  • Provost Proceedings

Please send any accomplishments, announcements, etc. to provost@regis.edu or directly to Jake Bucher.

  • Please access these updates from Teaching and Learning Excellence. As a note to new colleagues, and a reminder to continuing ones, we will keep this site active with new and helpful information.
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  • Thanks to faculty and staff from Admissions, First Year Experience, Regis College Dean’s Office, Student Affairs and many others for helping register new and returning students. It was a huge lift, but a huge success.
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  • The Provost Advisory Council held our inaugural meeting and discussed a variety of topics to include establishing a scope for the group, the ITS transition, and the Presidential transition. Future topics include the HLC Quality Initiative, AI, DEIJ work, mental health and operations/budget. I will share future recommendations/insights from the group in future newsletters.
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  • For anyone looking for updates about implications of federal decisions on financial aid, please consult "Big Beautiful Bill" and Financial Aid Updates | Regis University.
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  • The entire Regis community is cordially invited to celebrate Ignatian Mission Day in the St. John Francis Regis Chapel on Sept. 11. Learn more about Ignatian Mission Day.
    • Mass of the Holy Spirit - 11 a.m., Regis Chapel
    • Community Picnic on Fortune Plaza after Mass
    • Talk by Chris Pramuk, Ph.D.: "We need a new language, a new imagination, a new story ... and it won't come from AI" - 3:30 p.m., Regis Chapel
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  • CoBe is serving soup outside our office (2nd floor of the Student Center) every Wednesday (11 a.m.-1 p.m.) to anyone who would like some. We are accepting donations of extra garden produce, canned beans, easy soup recipes, etc. If your office would like to sponsor a week, please let Junior Reina Toc or Nicki Gonzales know. As Padre Fernando says, “sin comida, no hay comunidad” (without food, there is no community).
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  • Happy HSI week (Sept. 8-12)! Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month view the full schedule of events.
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  • Sept. 22, MilVets will be sponsoring 22-a-Day Push-Up Challenge and Veteran Support Awareness.
       
    • Morning, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., the Quad: Join us outside the Student Center on September 22 for the 22-a-Day Push-Up Challenge. Test your strength and help raise awareness for the 22 veterans who die by suicide each day. Complete the challenge and earn a 22-Day Veteran Support Bracelet as a symbol of your commitment. All skill levels welcome — come out, push yourself and support this important cause. If you happen to be there when the Provost is around, you can get your bracelet by having him do your 22 push-ups!
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    • Afternoon, 3-5 p.m., Claver 315: Please join us for the 22-a-Day Suicide Awareness Presentation and Well-Being Fair. As part of the Good Trouble Conversation Initiative, we are honored to welcome Tegan Rowley, co-founder of the Wounded Healer Project, as our keynote presenter. Tegan will share her journey of resilience, healing and hope, addressing the critical importance of suicide awareness within our communities. Tegan is a Regis RHCHP alumna. Following the presentation, stay for a Well-Being Fair and Healing Zone, featuring resources, support opportunities and interactive spaces dedicated to personal wellness and community connection.
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  • Gabriella Carrión, Anthony Ortega, and Mariana Pereira Vieira (Regis College) are participating in the “Museo es tu Casa” exhibition at Museo de las Americas through September 21. The exhibition welcomes Hispanic Heritage Month by inviting artists to engage and explore the concept of hospitality in Latin American culture.
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  • Ethan Sanders (Regis College), has a book launching this fall – Building the African Nation: The African Association and Pan-Africanism in Twentieth Century East Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2025). Ethan was invited by AskHistorians.com (which claims to be the largest public history forum on the internet with 2.5 million readers) to do an “Ask Me Anything” session, where anyone can log in and ask typed questions about the book live.
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  • Liz Grassi (Regis College) had multiple presentations recently in Scotland and Norway, covering her research on integrated language and teaching.
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  • Loretta Notareschi (Regis College) had her work, "Be Still and Breathe," co-written with Gabe Perbieri, published by the Unitarian Universalist Association in the new virtual hymnal, Sing Out Love.
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  • In September, Jake Bucher presented on “Inclusive Masculinities” at the National Organization for Victim Advocacy’s Military Domestic Abuse Victim Advocate training conference in San Antonio.
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  • The Biology Department has received two separate equipment grants from the National Science Foundation. This is great news for our faculty and students, and is thanks to the great work of a collection of folks for successful grant applications.

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