Over 40 majors in undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs.
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Over 40 majors in undergraduate, graduate, and professional education programs
We make it easy to find your way into our community.
Saint Joe鈥檚 is the place where student life and community life come together.
A rich tradition in Catholic education for more than a hundred years.
General Inquiries: 855-752-4636 Send An Email
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For decades, Saint Joseph鈥檚 College has worked to make education accessible to non-traditional students through its distance education programs. Now, in an innovative partnership with the Maine based construction company Cianbro, the college is granting Cianbro employees academic credit for the company鈥檚 own training programs, which can be put toward degree programs at Saint Joseph鈥檚. [...]
Exercise science majors聽can tout a major addition to their academic toolkit with the recent opening of the Human Performance Laboratory in the Alfond Center. According to faculty member Tom Dann, this new performance lab will give students a great hands-on experience with their fitness clients, who initially will be faculty, staff, students and student athletes [...]
Dr. Patricia Ireland鈥檚 family is well-traveled. Her two sons recently returned from missions in Africa, and her daughter is leaving for a service trip to Mexico. Dr. Ireland is making a shorter, though no less significant, voyage: She鈥檚 moving from Dominican College in Orangeburg, N.Y., to Saint Joseph鈥檚 College in Standish, Maine, to become the [...]
When the college began Pearson鈥檚 Town Farm in the spring of 2009, we knew that we wanted to reconnect people to their food and its production. As the farm evolved, we came to see the importance of relationships. The very real importance of the relationship between plants and the soil, between rain and the insects, [...]
At Saint Joseph鈥檚 College, the community is an extension of the classroom, thanks to innovative courses that incorporate service learning. Service learning gives students a chance to apply what they鈥檝e learned to real-world settings, making them more active participants in their education. In the Mercy spirit of service, the students share their skills at a [...]
You鈥檝e held several important administrative positions on college campuses, but you say that, at heart, you鈥檙e a teacher. Tell us about your educational journey as a teacher and administrator. While I was at the University of Virginia as a graduate instructor, I really came to understand how much teaching is a part of who I [...]
Born and raised in Houlton, Maine, Sr. Anne Fitzpatrick 鈥�64 has been a Sister of Mercy for 53 years. Her father worked at Madigan Hospital, which was sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy, so she knew many of the nuns as a child. She says her father would fix the nuns鈥� rosary beads for them, [...]
Dave Stamm 鈥�11 recently finished his bachelor鈥檚 degree with a concentration in adult education and training. Stamm, of Selinsgrove, Pa., finished his online program last December and celebrated by coming to Commencement in May. In his spare time he is a musician in a band called Lucky Afternoon. Congratulations to Dave and all the other [...]
Since Saint Joseph鈥檚 College started, more than 17,000 people have earned undergraduate and graduate degrees through on-campus and distance education programs. The top 10 states where the most Saint Joseph鈥檚 alumni live are (in descending order): Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Florida, New York, New Hampshire, Ohio, New Jersey, North Carolina and Texas. The Sisters of Mercy [...]
Charlie Furbush went from once thinking he鈥檇 never throw a baseball again to a spot in the rotation for the major league Seattle Mariners last summer. The lanky pitcher, once a hopeful Division III athlete at St. Joe鈥檚 looking to play baseball while he earned a degree, became the key return for the Mariners in [...]
