Message from the Dean

Dear PCPS faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends:

True to our nature, members of the Panuska College of Professional Studies have come together to support each other and to give back to a world that needs US now more than ever.

At the start of the global pandemic, PCPS sent out a biweekly e-newsletter, Embracing the Call to Care, with inspiring stories of students, staff and faculty during unprecedented times in our world.

As we continue to confront the many challenges that COVID-19 presents, this issue of Challenges in Theory and Practice focuses on stories that embrace the creative work being done by students, faculty, staff and the Board of Visitors to advance our strong academic college and continue our rich Catholic and Jesuit tradition of seeing the Divine in all things.

As many of you know, the beloved poet Mary Oliver brings me great inspiration. I think of her quote:

“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”

PCPS hears the “Call to Care” and uses that creative power to make a difference in teaching, learning and actions.

Walk through these pages with me and see a world filled with possibilities.

In deepest gratitude,

Debra Pellegrino, Ed.D. Academic Dean of the J.A. Panuska College of Professional Studies

The Edward R. Leahy, Jr. Endowment

THE WORLD I LIVE IN

I have refused to live locked in the orderly house of reasons and proofs. The world I live in and believe in is wider than that. And anyway, what’s wrong with Maybe?

You wouldn’t believe what once or twice I have seen. I’ll just tell you this: only if there are angels in your head will you ever, possibly, see one.

— Mary Oliver

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