December 2016
About
Department/School/Division: Enrollment Systems Research and Reporting
Campus: Lake Shore Campus
Years at Loyola: 3
What is your favorite thing about working at Loyola?
I love working with students! Over the past two years I got to work with our new engineering program and our first couple classes of engineers. It is a great program, and the students love the hands-on learning. I taught their UNIV 101 class, and it was always great to hear about the projects they were working on and how much they loved their class.
What is your most memorable achievement as a Loyola employee?
Probably teaching eight sections of UNIV 101 in one semester while taking two graduate courses, that was quite the task, but a lot of fun!
What does Loyola's mission mean to you?
Everything. It is a huge part of who I am and who I try to be. Having attended undergrad here and worked for a couple other schools in the meantime, I just really appreciate how the mission speaks to others. Teaching about our mission and Jesuit values in UNIV 101 was always so easy because it’s a mission that actually motivates and inspires people to make our community a better place.
What motivates you to succeed each and every day?
Again I go back to the Jesuit values that I learned as a student here. When I took UNIV here, it was under a different model, and we had a Jesuit, Fr. Horan, teaching our UNIV class. I’ll never forget most of what he said in the class, but in particular he said that we were given a great gift of education that many around the world do not receive. He said that it was our job to use this gift and give it back to our community, however you define it, and make it a better place. I don’t think my writing does it justice, the way he phrased it at least, but it is something that continues to stick with me and inspire me every day.
Tell us how you show your Rambler pride.
When I think of Rambler pride it revolves around the true spirit of Loyola, which personally I think is service to others. I think you strongly see that spirit in our students. So I show my pride by giving back my love for math. I am finishing my master’s in statistics at Loyola, and I tutor students at a local high school to improve their math skills.
Tell us something most people at Loyola would be surprised to know about you.
I had a pair of the basketball shoes where you pump them up to make them fit better until I was older than I care to admit. That’s actually, probably not that surprising though. They were solid shoes.
