{"id":5845,"date":"2026-01-23T14:34:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/winter-2026\/last-words\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:05:11","slug":"last-words","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/winter-2026\/last-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy vision is to further strengthen Trinity and its academic core so we are ensuring that our curriculum is the right content for a 21st century graduate to be able to compete out there in the world.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014<strong>Dan Lugo<\/strong>,\u00a0Trinity College president, on the College\u2019s role in the future; WTNH\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtnh.com\/on-air\/thisweekinconnecticut\/new-trinity-college-president-on-vision-for-the-future-relationship-with-city-this-week-in-connecticut\/\"><em>This Week in Connecticut<\/em><\/a>, September 14, 2025<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I really want my students to be excited and to feel that what I\u2019m teaching is relevant to them and to their lives.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Sarah Bilston, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of English, on creativity in the classroom, including a project in her \u201cVictorian Short Fiction\u201d course that asks students to write a ghost story on TikTok; <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1129632136?autoplay=1&amp;muted=1&amp;stream_id=Y2xpcHN8NzMyMDI2Mzh8aWQ6ZGVzY3xbXQ%3D%3D\">Trinity College Inauguration Symposium I: Human Creativity<\/a>, October 17, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFor 200 years, we have been invested in the success of Trinity because it has so much to do with the future of the city of Hartford.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Arunan Arulampalam, mayor of Hartford, on the interconnectedness of Trinity College and Hartford; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z1YRgJEY1xo\">Trinity College Inauguration<\/a>, October 18, 2025<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlumni of small colleges have a clear edge when it comes to career networking.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Sonia Cardenas, dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs, on LinkedIn\u2019s new college rankings, which placed Trinity as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/news\/trinity-receives-wide-recognition-for-value-to-students-success-of-alumni\/\">No. 4 top liberal arts college<\/a> in the nation and the highest ranked of its NESCAC peers; <a href=\"https:\/\/universitybusiness.com\/what-a-new-college-ranking-tells-us-about-career-outcomes-for-liberal-arts-graduates\/\"><em>University Business<\/em><\/a>, September 23, 2025<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe realized we weren\u2019t just training voter captains for one election, but we were also seeding the community with people who are motivated about their civic duty. We\u2019re hoping that continues to spread over time.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Dang Do, assistant professor of political science, on the Voter Captain Project, for which he received the 2025 Outstanding Civic Engagement Project award from the American Political Science Association; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/news\/trinity-professor-receives-award-for-civic-engagement-and-grants-for-research\/\">trincoll.edu<\/a>, September 29, 2025<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor today\u2019s college students, my strongest advice is to prioritize gaining career-aligned work experience as early as possible\u2014ideally beginning in their first year of college.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Jane Swift \u201987, CEO of the nonprofit Education at Work and former governor of Massachusetts, with suggestions for students who want to prepare for the work world; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereducationdigest.com\/empowering-students-through-career-readiness-initiatives\/\"><em>Higher Education Digest<\/em><\/a>, September 29, 2025<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s extremely smart. 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I talk to her a lot.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Major League Baseball All-Star George Springer of the Toronto Blue Jays on his sister Lena Springer, Trinity assistant professor of physical education and head softball coach; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/onsi\/softball\/news\/ohio-state-softball-alum-s-reaction-to-brother-s-game-7-alcs-home-run-is-pure-joy\"><em>Softball on SI<\/em><\/a>, October 23, 2025<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy vision is to further strengthen Trinity and its academic core so we are ensuring that our curriculum is the right content for a 21st century graduate to be able to compete out there in the world.\u201d \u2014Dan Lugo,\u00a0Trinity College president, on the College\u2019s role in the future; WTNH\u2019s This Week in Connecticut, September 14, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"parent":5495,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5845","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.5 (Yoast SEO v25.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Last Words - The Trinity Reporter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/winter-2026\/last-words\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Last Words\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cMy vision is to further strengthen Trinity and its academic core so we are ensuring that our curriculum is the right content for a 21st century graduate to be able to compete out there in the world.\u201d \u2014Dan Lugo,\u00a0Trinity College president, on the College\u2019s role in the future; 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