More than three-quarters of administrators, faculty and staff at Jesuit colleges agree or strongly agree that “admitting, enrolling, and supporting undocumented students fits with the mission of the institution.” And yet 40% recently said there were no known programs or outreach to undocumented students of which they were aware. There is then an obvious disconnect between a theoretical...
Fairfield University and the nearby city of Bridgeport, Conn., announced a new internship program that promises to tie the Jesuit university and gritty industrial city closer together.Already, nearly 100 of the Fairfield's faculty and staff and more than 1,100 of the university's alumni live in Bridgeport, and the Webster Bank Arena in the city is home court for Fairfield Stags basketball. The int...
National Public Radio’s WNPR-Connecticut Public Radio and The Connecticut Mirror opened a news bureau on the campus of Fairfield University.In addition to covering news in Fairfield County, the collaboration offers opportunities for Fairfield University students to be interns in a working newsroom.The Connecticut Mirror is the website of the nonprofit Connecticut News Project (CNP). The proj...
Connecticut's Fairfield University announced the roster for its 2011-12 Open VISIONS Forum at the university’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.The complete season line-up is as follows:Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, at 8 p.m.Chuck Todd: “State of the Nation: Polling the Mood”Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, at 8 p.m.Lara Logan: “Apartheid to Afghanistan, Reporting from the Front Li...
The Ford Foundation awarded Fairfield University a two-year $200,000 grant to lead a national study of undocumented immigrant students of Jesuit universities.Research at the university's Center of Faith and Public Life will seek to understand the connections between American Jesuit universities and undocumented students. The study will consider the best strategies to support and challenge undocume...
Fairfield University announced that Harvard University executive VP Katherine Lapp, and University of Texas cancer researcher James Abbruzzese, M.D., will address the university’s 60th commencement on Sunday, May 23, on Bellarmine Lawn. Lapp will address undergraduates at 9:30 a.m. Abbruzzese will address graduate students at 3 p.m. For more, click here....
More than three-quarters of administrators, faculty and staff at Jesuit colleges agree or strongly agree that “admitting, enrolling, and supporting undocumented students fits with the mission of the institution.” And yet 40% recently said there were no known programs or outreach to undocumented students of which they were aware. There is then an obvious disconnect between a theoretical... 
National Public Radio’s WNPR-Connecticut Public Radio and The Connecticut Mirror opened a news bureau on the campus of Fairfield University.In addition to covering news in Fairfield County, the collaboration offers opportunities for Fairfield University students to be interns in a working newsroom.The Connecticut Mirror is the website of the nonprofit Connecticut News Project (CNP). The proj...