Navigating Thomas College: Your Guide to Technology and Resources
This article provides a comprehensive overview of the technological resources and academic environment at Thomas College, including information relevant to students and faculty. It aims to equip individuals with the knowledge necessary to navigate the college's intranet and utilize available resources effectively.
Getting Started at St. Thomas
Upon claiming your St. Thomas account, new students are encouraged to visit the Tommie Tech Canvas Site. This site serves as a central hub for accessing news, campus events, login links for university systems, and other essential information.
Technology in Residence Halls
To ensure a smooth transition into campus life, students living in residence halls should familiarize themselves with the approved technology guidelines. The article "Residence Halls: What Technology is Available" provides details on what items are permitted and what should be left at home.
Microsoft Office Suite
St. Thomas provides students with complimentary access to the full Microsoft Office suite, which can be downloaded on up to five personal devices (both Mac and PC). This eliminates the need to purchase the software separately.
Printing Services
Students receive a complimentary print credit at the beginning of each semester, covering the cost of approximately 400 black and white pages of printing. Printing is accessible from any computer on campus, through Web Print using any web browser, or by installing the PaperCut software on a personal laptop. If students choose to bring a printer to their residence hall room, a wired connection is recommended for network reliability.
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Computer Labs and Workstations
St. Thomas offers five computer labs available to all students in classrooms AD-126, AD-123, AL-116, AL-204 and the library. These labs are staffed by Services Desk support staff during opening hours. Workstation clusters are also available in various locations and residence halls around campus. Select residence hall clusters and a section of the library are accessible 24/7.
Computer Configuration Workshop
IT Services personnel conduct computer configuration workshops shortly after student arrival to provide operating system-specific guidance.
The Freedom Project at Wellesley College
In 2012, The Freedom Project at Wellesley College was founded, a program devoted to fostering pluralism, debate, and freedom of thought and expression at the College and organizing student internships with international organizations based in Oslo and London, dedicated to resistance against authoritarian regimes around the world. Under his direction, he initiated Wellesley College’s partnership with Scholars-at-Risk, an organization dedicated to protecting international scholars and the freedom to think, question, and share ideas.
Faculty and Research at Academic Institutions
Thomas Cushman (Wellesley College)
Thomas Cushman's areas of teaching and research include theories of modernity; the sociology of knowledge, intellectuals, and ideology; individualism and individuality; dissent and freedom of expression; emotions and society; most recently, non-Western nondualist philosophies and their relation to Western social theory. He received his graduate training at The University of Virginia, where he received a PhD in Sociology (1987) with a concentration in sociological theory, political sociology, and Soviet and East European studies. He received a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship from the US Department of Education for intensive Russian language training and was awarded a certificate in Soviet and East European Studies from the University of Virginia Center for Soviet and East European Studies.
His publications include Notes from Underground: Rock Music Counterculture in Russia (State University of New York Press, “Series in the Sociology of Culture”, 1995), based on intensive urban ethnographic fieldwork in St. Petersburg. The book was named as one of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Books in 1995; Critical Theory and the War in Bosnia and Croatia (University of Washington, Henry Jackson School of International Affairs, 1997); George Orwell: Into the 21st Century, with John Rodden (Paradigm, 2005); A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, editor (University of California Press, 2005); Terror, Iraq and the Left: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics, edited with Simon Cottee (New York University Press, 2008); and The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity, edited with Thomas Brudholm (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
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He is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights (2011), a standard reference work in the field, which presents 60 original essays from leading scholars across the world and across the disciplines on all areas of human rights. He was book series editor for “Post-Communist Cultural Studies” and “Essays on Human Rights”, both with Pennsylvania State University Press. He received grants from The National Science Foundation to train in the Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian language and to lead an extensive interview project on interethnic trust and mistrust in post-war Sarajevo. He published findings in Bosnian language journals and advised Bosnian leaders on projects to rebuild post-war society in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He published and spoke extensively in policy forums on the war and genocide against Bosnian Muslims and the indifference of Western liberal democracies and international organizations during the conflict. He organized internships for Wellesley students at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, where they attended and studied war crimes trials of those accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, including the trial of Slobodan Milosevic.
He has been a Fellow of the Harvard Russian Research Center; an Associate of the Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights; Visiting Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University; Visiting Professor of Law, School of the Humanities, at Birkbeck College, University of London; Honorary Professor in the Social Sciences at The University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa; and a Senior Research Fellow at The Eudaimonia Institute at Wake Forest University. Throughout his career, he has been actively involved in bringing social science perspectives to the understanding of international and national public policy issues. Since coming to Wellesley in 1989, he has taken an active role in the effort to enhance the public sphere at Wellesley by bringing over 100 speakers across a wide range of topics to the College: national and international academics across the disciplines, leading political and public policy figures, human rights scholars, jurists and activists, writers, and journalists.
On July 24, 2019, The United States Commission on Civil Rights appointed Professor Cushman to a four-year term as a member of its Massachusetts Advisory Committee, producing reports on a variety of civil rights issues in the Commonwealth.
John B. Hattendorf (Naval War College)
Nearly a century after Stephen B. Luce proposed the establishment of the Naval War College as “a place of original research on all questions relating to war and the statesmanship connected with war, or the prevention of war,” the Center for Naval Warfare Studies was established within the College for broadly based, advanced research on the naval contributions to national strategy.
John B. Evan Wilson (Naval War College)
Associate Professor John B. Evan Wilson researches the naval history of Britain and other countries from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. A recipient of the Sir Julian Corbett Prize in Modern Naval History, he is the author or editor of seven books, most recently Planning for War at Sea: 400 Years of Great Power Competition, which he edited with Paul Kennedy. Before coming to Newport, he was the Caird Senior Research Fellow at the National Maritime Museum (UK) and the Associate Director of International Security Studies at Yale University. He holds degrees from Yale, Cambridge and Oxford.
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Naval War College
The Naval War College (NWC) faculty and staff look forward to your arrival and the opportunity to get to know you and work with you during your time here. Naval War College (NWC) distance education programs were designed to fit into the geographic and time constraints of students unable to participate in our traditional residential program. Naval War College welcomes senior and midcareer officers from navies around the world.
Military Personnel
Rear Admiral Amy N. Bauernschmidt
Rear Adm. Amy N. Bauernschmidt is a native of Milwaukee, Wisc. Naval Academy with a BS in Ocean Engineering. She earned an MA from the Naval War College and was designated a Naval Aviator in 1996 with over 3,000 flight hours in naval aircraft. Her sea tours include the Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron Light 45 twice with USS John Young; aide-de-camp to Commander, Carrier Strike Group 7 with USS John C. Stennis; HSL-51 twice aboard USS Kitty Hawk; executive and commanding officer of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 70 aboard USS George H.W. Bush; and executive officer of USS Abraham Lincoln. Her tours ashore include instructor pilot and quality assurance officer of HSL-41; executive assistant and action officer to the Director, Joint Staff/J6; and senior military advisor to the Secretary of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues.
Rear Admiral Erik J. Eslich
Rear Adm. Erik J. Eslich is a native of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Pacific Fleet. At sea, he was Commander of Carrier Strike Group Twelve and served aboard USS Lake Erie, USS Wasp, and USS Oscar Austin. He was executive officer for both USS O’Kane and USS Ramage. Seventh Fleet.
Brigadier General Matthew Tracy
Brigadier General Matthew Tracy is the Commanding General, Education Command and President, Marine Corps University. Naval War College. His command assignments include Platoon Commander and Executive Officer with 3d Battalion, 8th Marines; Company Commander of 2d Battalion, 3d Marines; Battalion Commander of 3d Battalion, 3d Marines; and Commanding Officer of the 4th Marine Regiment. Special Operations Command. He has served as Assistant Chief of Staff, War Plans (G5) and Operations (G3) for III Marine Expeditionary Force. Most recently, he served at Headquarters, Marine Corps as the Future Operations Branch.
General Daniel R. Hokanson
General Daniel Hokanson is Chief of the National Guard Bureau and a Joint Chiefs of Staff member. In his role, he serves as an adviser on military matters to executive level departments. Additionally, he is the Department of Defense’s National Guard liaison to state-level leaders. Previously, he served as the Director of the Army National Guard, and as the Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau. Daniel R. Hokanson graduated from the United States Military Academy and served in multiple aircraft test organizations before joining the Oregon National Guard. He has multi-level command experience, served as the Adjutant General of Oregon, and in the North American Aerospace Defense Command. His multiple combat deployments included commands of an Infantry Brigade Combat Team and as Chief of Staff for Combined Joint Task Force Phoenix.
Admiral Charles A. Richard
Naval War College. His operational assignments include multiple submarine commands. Staff assignments include executive assistant and naval aide to the Under Secretary of the Navy; chief of staff, Submarine Force Atlantic; director of resources on the staff of the Under Secretary of Defense; squadron engineer on the staff of SUBRON-8 and duty on the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations staff. Strategic Command, Director of Undersea Warfare (OPNAV N97), Deputy Commander of Joint Functional Component Command for Global Strike, and command of Submarine Group 10. His most recent assignment was Commander, Submarine Forces in Norfolk, Virginia.
Admiral Samuel Paparo
From a maritime family, Samuel Paparo graduated from Villanova University and was commissioned in 1987. He earned an MA from Old Dominion University and an MS from the Naval Postgraduate School. A graduate of the Air Command and Staff College, the Air War College, the Naval War College, the Joint and Combined Warfighting School, and the TOPGUN program, he has flown over 6,000 hours and has over 1,000 carrier landings. His multiple operational command tours include, at sea: Carrier Air Wing 7, and Carrier Strike Group Ten, and, on the ground: Provincial Reconstruction Team with the 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade. Central Command, and Battle Director at the Combined Air and Space Operations Center, Al Udeid, Qatar.
Rear Admiral Deborah A. Mcclelland
A native of Ocean City, New Jersey, Rear Adm. McClelland graduated from Temple University in 1987, was commissioned in 1990, and earned her MA from Boston University in 2006. Naval War College Command and Staff Program. She had multiple Navy Reserve (NR) supply, contracting and logistics assignments, including several overseas, as well as multiple command tours. McClelland mobilized in 2009 as commanding officer, DLA Support Team - Afghanistan, embedded with the Army’s 101st Airborne Division. She deployed again in 2010 as the deputy group commander, Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group Forward, supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. A qualified Navy Expeditionary Supply Corps officer, McClelland assumed duties as commander, Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group in 2019.
Captain Mary Elizabeth Neill
Born in Baltimore, Md., Capt. Mary Elizabeth Neill has been part of the Dental Corps for more than three decades. Captain Neill received her B.S. from University of Maryland Baltimore County, her Doctor of Dental Surgery from University of Maryland College of Dental Surgery, her M.S. from University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio and her M.S. National Security and Strategic Studies 2016 from the U. S. Naval War College.
Brigadier General John J. Allen
Air Force, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. He is responsible for providing policy and oversight for the planning, development, construction, maintenance, utilities and environmental quality of 183 Air Force bases worldwide valued at more than $297 billion. This responsibility includes housing, fire emergency services, explosive ordnance disposal and emergency management services. He also influences resourcing for installation support functions with an annual budget of $11 billion and is the focal point for organizing, training and equipping the 51,000-person engineering force.
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