{"id":5462,"date":"2016-10-21T10:51:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T14:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/?p=5462"},"modified":"2019-11-22T14:34:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T19:34:34","slug":"saint-peters-path-to-distinction-celebrated-at-annual-presidents-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/21\/saint-peters-path-to-distinction-celebrated-at-annual-presidents-reception\/","title":{"rendered":"Â鶹ÊÓƵ\u2019s Path to Distinction Celebrated at Annual President\u2019s Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"img_0378\"#Grateful and #Blessed were trending at this year\u2019s President\u2019s Reception, held on October 13 at the Pleasantdale Ch\u00e2teau in West Orange.<\/p>\n

The President\u2019s Reception is an event held annually to thank and recognize the members of the University\u2019s premier giving society, the President\u2019s Council. Gratitude was the theme of the evening, and it emanated from every individual at the event.<\/p>\n

The President\u2019s Council is comprised of alumni ranging from the Class of 1936 to 2016, faculty, administrators, friends of the University and corporations and foundations. Appreciation for these loyal donors was expressed in multiple ways throughout the evening.<\/p>\n

Attendees had the opportunity to meet and take photos with students who held signs that read #Blessed, #Grateful and \u201cThank you for investing in me.\u201d They heard words of gratitude from Â鶹ÊÓƵ\u2019s University President Eugene J. Cornacchia, Ph.D., and from Veramarie Jiminez \u201918, president of the Student Government Association. In addition, the donors were thanked in a video highlighting Pathways to Distinction: The Â鶹ÊÓƵ\u2019s University Strategic Plan.
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\u201cGratitude is at the heart of all we do,\u201d said \"fr-rocco\"Dr. Cornacchia during his address, as he highlighted some\u00a0of\u00a0the recent University accomplishments that would not have been possible without the support of the President\u2019s Council. Dr. Cornacchia shared that the University is grateful for the record-breaking number of freshmen and transfer students and the largest graduate enrollment ever with 900 students. The University is also grateful to be the recipient of a number of large grants and gifts including a $1 million gift from the Give Something Back Foundation for student scholarships, a grant from the NCAA Accelerating Academic Success Program to improve learning environments for student-athletes, and the largest grant in University history: $3.8 million from the U.S. Department of Education for a STEM project titled SURGE<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese grants are indicative of a growing collective confidence in Â鶹ÊÓƵ\u2019s as being a University of distinction,\u201d Dr. Cornacchia said as he unveiled the video that demonstrated all that Â鶹ÊÓƵ\u2019s has accomplished and what the University aspires to achieve through Pathways to the Distinction<\/em>. At the heart of this plan lies the desire to graduate students for careers and purposeful lives through teaching excellence, experiential learning and community engagement. The video called on the audience to, \u201charness our collective power to forge the next chapter in Â鶹ÊÓƵ\u2019s remarkable history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"schola\"Students are the individuals most impacted by the gifts of the donors. One grateful student, Jiminez, took the stage to share her story. She learned to appreciate Jesuit values when she took a year off from college to live in a mission house in the Dominican Republic. She discovered that her purpose in life was to give back to others.<\/p>\n

\u201cServing in this mission house showed me that I was strong and willing to persevere through hours of labor. Service to others is where I excelled,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Â鶹ÊÓƵ\u2019s welcomed her back with open arms as a sophomore. She went on to become president of the Student Government Association; a job for which she feared she was ill prepared. However, she realized that her passion outweighed her fears and she would be successful as president, developing her own leadership style.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for helping us build our lives by what you give,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n

To view photos from the event, please click here<\/a>. To view the Pathways to Distinction <\/em>video, please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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