Marymount University

I'm your host, Steve Anderson, and today our guest is Dr. Skye Donovan.

So she is vice president of the American Physical Therapy Association, and I'm going to have you tell us what your title is at Marymount University.

Sure,

and thanks for having me on.

Yeah.

Awesome.

So now you, uh, you're at Marymount university and so you're, you're working with APTA as well.

So you started out as just a faculty, not just a faculty.

Yeah, we did.

One went through Marymount University and that was shortly after we became a nonprofit.

It was a lot of fun and a lot of work and a lot of preparing for it.

And we had everybody who participated in the study had to be new to climbing.

This is a special bonus episode of the Connected College podcast recording in June, 2026 at the NASPA Student Success and Higher Education Conference.

Jeff Doyle from Marymount University and I tag-teamed this deep dive on belonging.

I shared some national context on belonging with definitions and trends, and then provided five ways that you can increase it.

Then Jeff offered his sense of belonging inventory.

I want to welcome my guest here, Dulce Rosales.

She's a student at Mary, Dulce Rosales, a student at Marymount University, and also a member of the Young America's Freedom And the TPUSA.

I'll say thanks for joining us here.

First time media exposed.

I think that's all we're trying to do is gather information and then get ready for this week.

We have a home game, which is, you know, unique and against Marymount University on Saturday.

So it's 12 o'clock start and Capital One Park is going to be bumping and weather looks pretty good.

We're excited to play another team on Saturday.

Go Steelers.

And moved to Northern Virginia to attend Marymount University as an English major.

You were ordained as a Roman Catholic priest on June 10th, 2000, and you have recently celebrated your 25th anniversary.

That's incredible.

So on 9/11, I was basically clearing airfields at Mount Weather as they were ferrying in, you know, the principals from the, from the White House and Congress on helicopters because they didn't know, uh, where, where the threat was going to be.

So fast-forward to my teaching counterterrorism in, in, uh, in classes, you know, created classes at, uh, Univer- Mount- uh, Marymount University.

I created an intelligence studies program, and then later at, uh, Georgetown, the students there, uh, were still really young at 9/11.

So while I was teaching, I could viscerally feel, you know, the, the impact, and the students can intellectually take in the impact and, you know, understand how terrible this was.

His name is Tiago D'Arago.

He's an adjunct professor at Marymount University.

He lectures on China and Latin America relations, and he is also a director of Arco Advice, a leading Brazilian political consulting firm.

[tense music] Tiago D'Arago, welcome to Global Roaming