By Anita V. M. Shea
Dean (Retired), School of Arts and Sciences
Until 1997, undergraduate research activities in the School of Arts and Sciences were based mainly in selected departments relying on a nucleus of committed faculty or on an occasional grant. In general, those efforts were neither publicly acknowledged nor supported in concept by the college community. That [...]

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By J. D. Scrimgeour
English Department

As a teacher of writing at Salem State College, I hear a lot of stories: The mother who lost her husband early and was trying to stay enrolled, but at last couldn’t afford it; the woman who lived in a shelter with her infant; the man who had grown up in [...]

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