IPS Welcomes Students and Faculty
IPS kicked off a new school year the week of August 16, welcoming 74 new and returning students, as well as former IPS Professors Daniel Robinson, Ph.D., and Craig Titus, Ph.D., along with new Professors Joanna Marino, Ph.D., and Hadley Bergstrom, Ph.D., who complete the esteemed IPS faculty.
Students began the week with a day-long spiritual retreat led by President Fr. Charles Sikorsky, LC, JD, JCL, followed by orientation on Tuesday for new students and Wednesday for returning students. By week's end, classes were well underway and the IPS campus was alive with academic activity.
During his address to the incoming students, Fr. Charles stressed, "As IPS students you have the opportunity to become agents of change for our culture, to make psychology what it's supposed to be, what God intends it to be."
Dr. Stephen Hamel, Director of the M.S. Clinical Program, told the orientation audience, "As psychologists you will have the possibility of positively affecting the life of another person, to peer into their heart and mind, especially within the integrative framework of the dignity of the person. We are healers."
Among the geographically and culturally diverse incoming student population are two priests, a mother of seven children, a journalist, and a former FOCUS missionary, hailing from such places as Maryland, California, South Dakota, Texas and The Netherlands.
IPS kicked off a new school year the week of August 16, welcoming 74 new and returning students, as well as former IPS Professors Daniel Robinson, Ph.D., and Craig Titus, Ph.D., along with new Professors Joanna Marino, Ph.D., and Hadley Bergstrom, Ph.D., who complete the esteemed IPS faculty.Students began the week with a day-long spiritual retreat led by President Fr. Charles Sikorsky, LC, JD, JCL, followed by orientation on Tuesday for new students and Wednesday for returning students. By week's end, classes were well underway and the IPS campus was alive with academic activity.
During his address to the incoming students, Fr. Charles stressed, "As IPS students you have the opportunity to become agents of change for our culture, to make psychology what it's supposed to be, what God intends it to be."
Dr. Stephen Hamel, Director of the M.S. Clinical Program, told the orientation audience, "As psychologists you will have the possibility of positively affecting the life of another person, to peer into their heart and mind, especially within the integrative framework of the dignity of the person. We are healers."
Among the geographically and culturally diverse incoming student population are two priests, a mother of seven children, a journalist, and a former FOCUS missionary, hailing from such places as Maryland, California, South Dakota, Texas and The Netherlands.