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Media Mentions
Oct 15, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Kendi Inspires Class of 2024 During Virtual Common Read
At the Arcadia University Common Read event on Oct. 12, held virtually this year, first-year students and members of the campus community heard from Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Anti-Racist. Dr. Kendi, a New York Times best-selling author and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the...
Sep 28, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
Graduates, Families Return to Campus for Joyous Drive Thru Celebration
Rain, wind, and a pandemic couldn’t stop members of the Class of 2020 and their families returning to campus for the University’s first-ever drive thru celebration on Sept. 26 and 27. In groups of 40 or fewer, nearly 200 graduates from the Class of 2020 and their...
Sep 9, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
President Nair on Chronicle of Higher Ed Panel
The Chronicle of Higher Education has tapped President Ajay Nair to serve on an industry panel on Thursday, Sept. 10 at 2 p.m. President Nair will be a panelist for the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “What It Takes to Be a Student-Centered Institution Now.” The panel also includes Allison...
Aug 25, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
President Nair Named Minority Business Leader by Philadelphia Business Journal
Arcadia University President Ajay Nair has been named a 2020 Minority Business Leader by the Philadelphia Business Journal. The award recognizes the Philadelphia region's top minority business leaders based on demonstrated business success over the past 12 to 18 months. Dr. Nair is the first...
Jun 15, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
Hall Begins Tenure as Vice President for Enrollment Management
Following a national search, Rakin Hall—a higher education expert with more than 20 years of success and strategic management at institutions such as the University of Utah and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USC)—was appointed vice president for Enrollment Management. Hall’s...
May 27, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
Arcadia Celebrates 2020 Grad-AWAY-tion
The Arcadia community gathered on the ‘virtual’ Green to recognize the Class of 2020 to acknowledge each member and confer degrees in a grad-AWAY-tion celebration on Friday, May 15. On the Arcadia 2020 Commencement website, graduates and their friends and family could hear...
Apr 30, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
Health Care Workers Find Emergency Lodging at Arcadia’s Princess Elizabeth House in London
The College of Global Studies is helping medical students at Whittington Hospital in Highgate, London, as they fight the COVID-19 virus. The Princess Elizabeth House, across the street from Whittington Hospital, is providing local accommodation at no charge to key emergency health care workers...
Apr 1, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
Arcadia Community Members Get Counted At Home
“Each of us can mitigate the virus’s threat to the 2020 Census and the 2020 elections by participating from home,” said Arcadia’s Director of the Office of Social Impact & Innovation (SI2) Dr. Alison LaLond Wyant, who is leading the new “Arcadia Votes” civic engagement initiative. ...
Oct 17, 2019 • Caitlin Burns
Chronicle of Higher Education Highlights Dr. Nair’s Dedication to Diversity
President Ajay Nair was featured in the Oct. 6 Chronicle of Higher Education for his dedication to diversifying higher education. Following his op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Chronicle spotlighted the University’s recent increase in racial and gender diversity in its administration...
Oct 16, 2019 • Caitlin Burns
At Common Read Event, David Hogg Urges Civic Engagement, Activism
At this year’s Common Read on Oct. 14, 19-year-old David Hogg, March for Our Lives co-founder, gun control advocate, and survivor of last year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., urged students to be civically engaged this election season and vote for...