Holy Family University Magazine - Fall 2021

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MEET OUR NEW PRESIDENT DR. ANNE M. PRISCO

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VALUES of HOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY nne M. Prisco, PhD, is drawn to many things about Catholic higher education, but she says she is especially drawn to Holy Family’s motto, teneor votis – perhaps never more so than in 2021: “I am bound by my responsibilities.” “‘Bound’ is a heavy word,” she says. “This notion of being bound by responsibility is also the notion of serving. Do we work, or do we serve? I think that is another difference with faith-based education because we talk about serving. It’s a sense of calling, service, and responsibility. Those are the things we are hearing about today and being called to do in society. “The Sisters understood that a long time ago.”

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