• For Super-Citizen Sonia Rodriguez, Public Service Knows No Bounds

    December 19, 2024 | Current Student, News

    Dec. 19, 2024 Sonia Rodriguez has held one job for 26 years, and she loves it. She’s a senior registration clerk in the Bureau of Disease Control of the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She’s a member of the clinic team that provides people with free testing for sexually transmitted diseases and infections […]

  • Insights from Election Season: Students Reflect on Campaign Experience

    November 15, 2024 | Current Student, News

    Nov. 15, 2024 Below are reflections from students who worked on this fall’s political campaigns, and who responded to outreach from SLU staff. We welcome additional input, especially from those who worked for other political parties and campaigns not represented here. Together, the SLU community is making meaning of election outcomes. An open discussion was […]

  • Climbing the Job Ladder, Natasha Bartley Aims to Lift Others

    November 1, 2024 | Current Student, News

    Nov. 1, 2024 Natasha Bartley is near the home stretch of obtaining her master’s degree in Urban Studies at SLU. An employee of the city Department of Transportation for a decade, Bartley enrolled to boost her climb up the job ladder. She’s focused on getting that diploma in hand and seeing it enhance her career. […]

  • Student Spotlight: Steamfitter Brian Hunt Steaming Toward the BA Finish Line

    December 13, 2023 | Current Student

    Steamfitting – and union membership – are in Brian Hunt’s blood. Raised in a union family, his father was a steamfitter. After an early career stint working in finance, Brian was considering going back to school when he got the call to start the Local 638 Steamfitters five-year Apprenticeship program. He started on August 1, 2007 – and that was it. “I love it,” says Brian.