Reflections Magazine Issue #83 - Fall 2015 | Page 5

Campus News

from the heights
SHU Named Gold Level
Veteran-Friendly School
Siena Heights University was one of 28
Michigan colleges and universities that
earned Gold Level status in VeteranFriendly School
program created
by the Michigan
Veterans Affairs
Agency. The program recognizes
institutions of higher
learning for their dedication to student
veterans and dependents utilizing their
G.I. Bill and other educational benefits.

SHU Again Recognized for
Online Veterans Program
Siena Heights University was again
recognized as 2015 Best Online Programs
for Veterans by U.S. News and World
Report. SHU is ranked the following in
this year’s listing:
• 21st overall (tied),
• Second in Michigan,
• First among Michigan private
institutions.
Last year, Siena Heights was ranked
47th in the same category. To qualify for
the Best Online Programs for Veterans
rankings, the 737 online degree programs
featured first had to be among the top
75 percent of schools ranked in the
2015 Best Online Programs rankings.

Ripper Presents at Center
for Scholastic Inquiry
Conference
SHU Assistant Professor of Business
Matthew Ripper had two papers accepted
by and presented at the October 2015
international conference in Charleston,
S.C., on behalf of the Center for Scholastic
Inquiry. His two papers are entitled
“Building an Authentic Workplace
Community Through Social Media” and
“Community Benefits Districts: Nonprofit
Governance Using Social Capital and
Cross-organizational Collaboration.”

Carter Receives Adult
Learner Champion Award
from CAHEN

Weinstein Earns Fiction
Writing Award
SHU Assistant Professor of English
Alexander Weinstein (above) was
recently awarded a Sustainable Arts
Foundation Award for his fiction writing.
His work was chosen out of more than
1,000 applicants. His short story, “The
Cartographers,” was also accepted for
publication in the 2015 Lascaux Fiction
Prize Anthology. Another of Weinstein’s
short stories, “The Museum of False
Doors,” was chosen as a finalist for the
River Styx Microfiction Prize and will
appear in the upcoming issue. He also
presented “Locating Digital Storytelling
in the Undergraduate Creative Writing
Curriculum” at the National 2015
Association of Writers and Writing
Programs Conference in Minneapolis,
Minn. His short story “The Museum of
False Doors” received an honorable
mention in the River Styx Microfiction
Contest and appeared in the summer
2015 issue. Two of his translations of
Danish poet Josefine Klougart appear
in the spring issue of The Massachusetts
Review. Finally, his non-fiction essay,
“Toward a Fiction of Compassion,”
appeared in the winter 2015 issue
of Pleiades.

Recently retired Dean of
the College for Professional Studies Deb Carter
received Adult Learner
Champion award and
plaque at the annual
Outstanding Adult
Learner event for the Capital Area Higher
Education Network (CAHEN) at Cooley
Law School in Lansing on April 15.
Also, Lacie Hill, a December community
services/family systems graduate of
SHU’s Lansing location, was named the
Outstanding Adu X\