Meet Mark Schersten

Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

Education

• Ph.D., Marquette University
• M.A., Claremont Graduate School
• B.A., Augustana College

Recent Awards and Achievements

• Edited Idea Tasting (4th ed.), with Sr. Eileen Rice, O.P. (Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, 1995)

Teaching Philosophy

“My approach in the classroom is first to acquaint my students with the great ideas, trying to get them to see the world through these ideas. I then challenge them to question these ideas and frame their own philosophies of life.”