Speeches by the President

Mount Mary All College Workshop, January 2013
Dr. Schwalbach speaks about the college's 100th anniversary and transition into a University.

"The School Sisters have offered a model for our continuing creative evolution: responsible and responsive action to meet needs and extend impact ... to provide an excellent, leading edge education that prepares students to meet the changing needs of society and work to transform the world."
-- Dr. Schwalbach, January 2013

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Commencement Address, Mount Mary College, May 2012
Dr. Schwalbach speaks about the College's commitment to compassion and how new graduates can carry that mission into the world.

"Catholic social teaching with its emphasis on the sanctity of life and the dignity of every human person also undergirds our emphasis on compassion in our mission ...

... you are the ones who will be living out the mission of the college ... you are the recipients of the legacy of compassion ... And so I challenge you on this special day: What will your legacy be?"
--Dr. Schwalbach, May 2012

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Commencement Address, Mount Mary College, May 2011
Dr. Schwalbach encourages graduates to create change, recognizing the power of every effort, large and small.

"... don't underestimate the power of small changes. As Mother Teresa of Calcutta said, 'What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.'

We must be that one drop. We must create change in the world by working to build community. So ask yourself: How am I that one drop, working to build and serve the community?"
--Dr. Eileen Schwalbach, May 2011

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Action Research, Carroll University, April 2011
Dr. Schwalbach discussed the cyclical process of teaching, analyzing student learning, drawing conclusions, modifying instruction and/or curriculum, teaching or the "process of action research."

"Teachers do have control of the most important factors that affect learning. And this perspective of being a teacher/researcher becomes a habit of mind that permeates their teaching."
--Dr. Eileen Schwalbach, April 2011

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"Vision for the Second Decade of the 21st Century"
All College Workshop, Mount Mary College, January 2011
Dr. Schwalbach addressed the administration and faculty at the start of the semester during an annual all-college workshop at Mount Mary College.

"... my vision for the college is the college's vision: educating to transform the world. And that's what will not change. It is our aspirational goal, our life-giving inspiration, our true north."
-- Dr. Eileen Schwalbach, January 2011.

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All College Workshop, Mount Mary College, August 2010
Dr. Schwalbach addresses the Mount Mary College community during the annual All College Workshop.

"We stand on the shoulders of the sisters who founded the School Sisters of Notre Dame so that girls, especially poor girls, could get an education ... This is the legacy that we have inherited. This is the legacy that we will honor."
-- Dr. Eileen Schwalbach, August 2010

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Inaugural Address, Mount Mary College, September 2009
Dr. Schwalbach spoke to the entire community of Mount Mary College during her inauguration as the 11th President of the college.

"Ultimately, Mount Mary College helps all students to reach their potential. Some may enter with certain labels, like "gifted," "average" or "underserved," but they graduate with their spirits ignited to continue learning, leading, and living as agents of change."
-- Dr. Eileen Schwalbach, September 2009

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