For a small liberal arts institution, St. John鈥檚 College has a significant number of employees who are Fulbright scholars. Now St. John鈥檚 is working to help more of our undergraduate and graduate students enjoy a Fulbright experience abroad.
When Simran Thapa (SF22) heard about the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs National Women's Case Competition, she knew wanted to find a way to participate.
Jason Gots (EC96) is a writer, musician, and podcast producer who lectures in Columbia University鈥檚 Graduate School of the Arts鈥� writing department. After studying acting at NYU鈥檚 Tisch School of the Arts, he earned an Eastern Classics degree from St. John鈥檚 and a master鈥檚 in developmental psychology from Columbia. Here he discusses his memoir, Humanity is Trying, which was released by HarperCollins/Hanover Square Press on March 1, 2022 and chronicles (among other things) the loss of his sister Meri Gots (SF97), who died in 2015.
I think that鈥檚 a St. John鈥檚 trait鈥攖hat you never stop learning and that there are always things that you can learn from. I always tell folks that the greatest lesson that I got from my St. John鈥檚 experience is there鈥檚 nothing I can鈥檛 think about.
鈥淚 love taking apart things that aren鈥檛 working and putting them back together again,鈥� says Phelosha Collaros (SF00). Since becoming the St. John鈥檚 College Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations in 2016, she has done exactly that: revamping two collegewide departments and creating another from scratch, all while staff and budgets were being downsized.
