Accomplishments & Upcoming Events

Congratulations to Jaselyn Taubel, senior economics major, who had her paper entitled “Do Higher Levels of Educational Attainment Lead to Higher Levels of Happiness? An Empirical Study” selected as a finalist for the Midwest Economics Association’s Undergraduate Paper Competition. The conference will be held from March 19-21, 2010 in Evanston, Illinois. The winner of the contest will be selected from the papers that are presented at the conference.

Welcome New Social Science Faculty

Thaddee Badibanga, Economics Department

Derick Becker, Political Science Department

Janet Grochowski, Chair, Education Department

Cheryl Kelley-Bowman, Management Department

Rachel Malchow-Lloyd, Education Department

Xiaodan (Dan) Zhao, Economics Department

Social Science Division

The Social Science Division consists of the following departments and programs: Accounting and Finance, Economics, Education, Management, McNeely Center for Entrepreneurship, Military Science, Peace Studies, Physical Education, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work and Sociology. These departments are housed on the College of Saint Benedict campus and/or Saint John's University campus. Dr. Ernest Diedrich is the Social Science Division Head.

Overview of Division

We’re eleven departments and one program strong
Over 100 full-time professors, associate professors and instructors call our division home (about 30% of all full-time profs).
41% of CSB/SJU students major in the Social Science Division (p. 12 of the 2006-2007 Registrar’s Annual Report).
43% of the degrees granted by our institutions were to Social Science majors (p. 26 of the 2006-2007 Registrar’s Annual Report).
The Management Department has the largest number of majors and comprises about 13% of all majors at CSB/SJU.

Spotlight

Rooney Endowment Grant Awarded to E-Scholar Megan Kack

CSB junior Megan Kack along with management professor Sanford Moskowitz were recently awarded a Rooney Endowment Grant of over $7,000 to further examine cultural and social issues that can hinder the diffusion of advanced dental hygiene products in developing countries. Megan is a biology major and pre-dental student. In addition to being an E-Scholar, she was enrolled in Prof. Moskowitz’s Global Entrepreneurship class and participated in a recent trip to China. The project, which is a combination of the social sciences with the biological sciences it titled: “The Promotion and Marketing of Dental Hygiene in Rural China: Development of a Case Study for International Business."

Megan will return to China for approximately four weeks to conduct intensive research on the project. When she returns, she will work with Prof. Moskowitz over the final few weeks of the project to finish the research and write up the results and prepare a draft of the case study.

The Rooney Endowment Grant funds summer fellowships for students to work in collaboration with CSBSJU faculty on multi-disciplinary projects with a health emphasis. It provides funding for both the student and faculty moderator.

Division Head:
Ernie Diedrich
Simons Hall 268
Saint John’s University
Collegeville, MN 56321
320-363-3518 (Office)
320-363-3298 (Fax)
ediedrich@csbsju.edu

Division Office Coordinator:
Suzanne Reinert
Simons Hall 150
Saint John’s University
320/363-2731
OR
Main 426A
College of Saint Benedict
320/363-5161
sreinert@csbsju.edu