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The Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library is more than just a building—it’s a dynamic academic environment intentionally designed to support discovery, collaboration, and student success.

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Jay Hake is a faculty member in the Business and Economics Department, where he teaches Business Law, Conflict Management, Entrepreneurship, and Social Entrepreneurship. Jay brings an integrated perspective to his faculty role: that of a licensed attorney, seasoned executive, and entrepreneur who has built companies, closed venture financings, and advised startup founders navigating the full arc of early-stage growth.

Jay's teaching philosophy centers on experiential, student-led inquiry. He believes that rigorous frameworks become meaningful only when students apply them to real decisions, and his courses are designed to support this approach, incorporating active discussion, case-based reasoning, and real world application. Whether working through contract disputes, conflict resolution scenarios, or the design of ventures built to generate both economic and social value, his students engage with material that mirrors the complexity of professional life.

Jay’s professional background spans roles as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and General Counsel across technology, software, and consumer products companies. He has structured equity financings, negotiated complex commercial agreements, managed board and investor relations, and guided organizations through periods of rapid scaling. That operational and legal experience informs his approach to teaching at every stage: from identifying opportunity and building teams, to navigating the legal, ethical, and strategic challenges that define a business’s trajectory.

In addition to his work at Gustavus, Jay leads a boutique consulting firm, serving executives and startup leaders on strategic planning, leadership development, and organizational growth.

Outside of the classroom, Jay is an avid fly fisherman, hiker, lover of the outdoors, and a reader.
 

Gustavus International Admission: Free application; SAT/ACT optional; required TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo for non‑English speakers; eligible for scholarships up to $40,000 per year. Learn more here.

Sarah Erickson Lume grew up near Ann Arbor, MI and had the privilege of spending summers at the international music camp, Interlochen Center for the Arts. This experience instilled in her the love of music making and she began to cultivate the artistic discipline of practicing, rehearsing, and performing within the context of a supportive community. Valuing a liberal arts education, she attended Sarah Lawrence College, outside of New York City while continuing to study oboe with Laura Ahlbeck (Metropolitan Opera) and Randall Wolfgang (New York City Ballet).

Sarah worked at NYC’s Carnegie Hall before entering graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was the student of her most influential teacher, Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida (Principal Oboist of the Pittsburgh Symphony). While pursuing a master’s degree in music performance, her momentum flourished both as a musician and as a reed maker. The Philadelphia style of reed making, and the resulting benefits to the oboist, is a specialty she now passes on to her own students. During this time, Sarah also attended Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, and Orford Music Festival, in Quebec.

Her work in the Twin Cities includes chamber music and freelance performances as well as previous work with the Duluth Symphony Orchestra, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, and Minnesota Waldorf School. Having been an oboe instructor at Gustavus Adolphus College for more than twenty years, Sarah has found teaching to be one of the most fulfilling jobs of her career. She maintains a private home studio and teaches as an adjunct faculty member at other area colleges. Her interests include Alexander Technique, optimal performance psychology, practicing the piano, and recorder, as well as running. Sarah and her husband, a visual artist and professor, have two daughters.

Gustavus Technology Services (GTS) provides campus-wide tech support including the helpline, account setup, network access, software, printing tools, and cybersecurity. Their site provides information on common questions such as access to the virtual lab, gusmail, connecting to wifi, loaner laptops, and printing on campus.

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Dr. Sarah Wolter serves as an Associate Professor and Chair of Communication Studies as well as an Assistant Women’s Golf Coach at Gustavus Adolphus College.

Dr. Wolter teaches a diverse range of courses, most notably Introduction to Critical Media Studies (COM 115), Public Discourse (COM 120), and the Sport Management cross-listed Communication and Sport (COM 373). Driven by a commitment to critical pedagogy, she utilizes evidence-based, high-impact practices and systematic assessment to elevate student learning. Her dedication to the classroom has earned her several honors, including the Gustavus Innovative Teaching Award, the Gustavus Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence, and the Minnesota Campus Compact President’s Civic Engagement Steward Award.

Dr. Wolter’s scholarship spans two distinct areas of inquiry: the impact of sport media on culture and institutions and civic engagement and media literacy in communication pedagogy. Dr. Wolter’s scholarship is published in leading journals such as the International Journal of Sport Communication, Communication and Sport, the Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, and the Journal of Community Engagement in Higher Education.

Beyond the classroom, Dr. Wolter serves in a variety of institutional service roles. As an assistant coach for the Gustavus women’s golf team, she helps manage practices and team travel for regional and national tournaments, where she intentionally infuses liberal arts values to bridge the gap between student athletes’ academic and athletic pursuits. Beyond athletics, in addition to her role as Department Chair and Program Assessment Liaison for Communication Studies, she is a Title IX Adjudicator and has served as Co-Program Director of Sport Management. She also actively supports the campus community through new faculty mentoring and serving on various faculty and administrative search committees.

Outside of her professional roles, Dr. Wolter enjoys golfing, hiking, traveling, and spending time with her family and friends.

Dr. Sarah Wolter CV

Anna Hulseberg has more than 20 years of experience teaching Gustavus students information literacy, which the Association of College & Research Libraries defines as “the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning” (Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education). Anna’s teaching ranges from course-integrated library instruction sessions to individual and group research consultations. She works with students in a variety of disciplines over their time at Gustavus, from First Term Seminars to upper level courses in the majors. Anna’s work also includes building a library collection that reflects the range of liberal arts scholarship and supports student research within the College curriculum. Over the years, she has enjoyed helping Gustavus students work to attain their full potential, with a special emphasis on facilitating their dispositions as lifelong learners and ethical consumers and creators of information.

Anna’s areas of research include information literacy, librarians in mentoring and advising, and librarianship as a profession (with an emphasis on electronic resources management). Her research has been published in journals such as College & Undergraduate Libraries, the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, and College & Research Libraries News, and presented at venues including the American Library Association Annual Conference, Minnesota Library Association Annual Conference, and the Brick & Click Academic Library Conference. Anna is active in library science professional associations, having served on the boards of the Minnesota Library Association and its Academic and Research Libraries Division.

Anna’s involvement in the College has included service on a number of faculty committees, including the Faculty Personnel Committee, Faculty Development Committee (past chair), and Academic Operations Committee (past co-chair). She participates in collegial management of the Library and Archives department as co-Program Assessment Liaison (PAL) and on departmental committees. Anna works to celebrate Gustavus students’ achievements in the liberal arts as a past officer and active member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

Professor Pamela Kittelson enjoys collaborating with students and colleagues. Her teaching has focused on ecology, plant physiology, evolution and general biology. Over 35 undergraduates from her lab have examined how habitat fragmentation affects plant populations, specifically how genetic variation, herbivory and plant traits change with population size and isolation. Students in her lab have published or presented this work and built scientific skills in writing, experimental design and analysis. After graduation, her advisees and former research students excel in careers ranging from natural resource management to education, research, medicine, biotechnology, law, and scientific writing.

Dr. Kittelson is the director of the Gustavus Fellowships Office. She supports and encourages all undergraduates by helping them identify and apply for nationally competitive funding which furthers their goals while in college or as alumni. These organizations include the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Critical Language Scholarship, National Science Foundation, and the Goldwater, Truman, Udall and Boren Scholarships.

She also serves as the Director of the Midstates Consortium for Math and Science, which is an organization that promotes excellence in STEM research and teaching. She organizes professional development programs for faculty and undergraduate students from ten liberal arts colleges and two research universities. Each year, she runs two undergraduate research conferences where Gustavus and other Consortium students present their research at the University of Chicago or Washington University in St. Louis.

As a first generation college graduate, Dr. Kittelson understands the importance of having a good mentor who encourages one’s education. She enjoys the advising and mentoring relationships she has built with Gusties over the years.

Pamela relishes opportunities to be in natural areas with students; she has led students on several travel and wilderness courses. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, canoeing, going fast downhill on skis or a bike, and camping. She putters around in gardens, museums or while watching birds. Travel near and wide is treasured. She relaxes with good books or music and the company of friends.