Seton Hall University Annual Report 2022-2023: Centered on Students

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Annual Report 2023

Dear Friends, Since its inception, Seton Hall has prepared leaders whose lives are marked by career success, personal fulfillment, spiritual maturity and service to others. Indeed, our University has always been a place where Great Minds are fostered and dreams take flight.

Animating this mission for a new generation requires a laser-like focus on elevating every aspect of the Seton Hall experience for students.

Over the past year, I have witnessed countless ways in which our community has united to advance this goal. It has been inspiring to serve as interim president when so much has been achieved, and many more accomplishments are within our grasp.

This annual report offers a snapshot of our progress. In these pages, you will learn about new ways of supporting students through transformed advising and an emphasis on mental and emotional wellness. You will glimpse vistas that are accessible to visitors at our new University Center. You will get a sense of our growing international scope. And I hope you will take heart from the tremendous learning, research and extracurricular activities our students pursue daily.

There is a reason to be proud of Seton Hall on every page of this volume.

Of course, neither our achievements nor the dreams we have for Seton Hall’s future would be possible without the selfless devotion of many people. Faculty members are dedicated to delivering instruction of the highest order. The priest community exemplifies the love of Christ for everyone on our campuses, always ready to direct students along the pathof greater faith. Staff members and administrators put students at the center of all they do. And gifts of time, resources and opportunities provided by alumni constitute the leadership necessary to achieve our utmost ambitions.

As we receive and enhance the University’s legacy of more than 167 years, our community is providing students with an experience characterized by transforming excellence.

By centering on students, Seton Hall is providing the kind of education that can stimulate minds, fill hearts and nourish spirits.

So please enjoy this glimpse of where we are and take a moment to imagine where we can go together.

Best, Katia Passerini, Ph.D. Interim President

The Seton Hall Student

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countries Geographic diversity continues to rise, too

The average GPA of the freshman class continues to rise

More than half of the Class of 2026 identified as students of color

The average SAT score of incoming students has risen steadily since 2011

More than 1/3 of the incoming class is the first in their family to attend college and more than 1/3 are Pell eligible

Student Enrichment and Support

Our founder, Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley, promised that Seton Hall would be a “home for the mind, the heart and the spirit.” Bishop Bayley’s vision remains alive and well today through a wide array of student support services. We know that students who feel supported and cared for — not only academically, but socially and spiritually — are much more likely to graduate. We increased our investment in student programs, building upon a 167-year history of nurturing students in every aspect of their education through several initiatives: The Affordability Agenda Providing a high-quality, affordable education is a Seton Hall priority, as evidenced by the allocation of a record $158 million of University funds for student aid. Our Resilience, Integrity, Scholarship and Excellence (RISE) Program and participation in the state Educational Opportunity Fund, provide transformational support for students of limited means. By emphasizing affordability, we ensure our students focus on achieving their goals for the future when they graduate, rather than how to pay for their past.

Advising Leads to Student Success We transformed our advising model, assigning each incoming student a dedicated Student Success Team, composed of a group of skilled professionals to guide them from their first day to their graduation. We’re already seeing results. The first-year student fall-to-fall retention rate reached a six-year high of 85.2 percent, demonstrating the value of such hands-on support.

Mental Health Matters Seton Hall’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) was awarded $388,000 through the New Jersey Mental Health in Higher Education: Community Provider Partnerships Grant. This funding provides the means to appoint counseling interns for RISE/GEN1, Disability Support Services and Varsity Athletics, giving the interns valuable “learning-by-doing” experience and offering students an additional layer of personal support in their Seton Hall journey.

Additionally, as part of New Jersey’s efforts to address the growing mental health crisis among young adults, Gov. Phil Murphy and Secretary of Higher Education Brian Bridges announced a partnership with Uwill — a mental health and wellness platform ready to support students across 44 New Jersey institutions of higher education.

Now available to all students at the South Orange campus, the Interprofessional Health Services campus (Nutley), and the Law School, this first-inthe-nation partnership provides 24/7 access to free virtual mental health services for Seton Hall students through free and immediate access to teletherapy and wellness programming.

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Prepped and Dressed for Success Seton Hall’s Career Center isn’t waiting for students to come to them. Instead, the Center is proactively meeting students where they are — sending counselors into each school and college to assess every student’s distinct career needs and goals, helping them develop strategies for success.

networking events. More than ever, Seton Hall students are ready to shine.

Part of that preparation is knowing how to dress for success. Thanks to Buccino Leadership Institute student Jason Santos and his team, Seton Hall students now have access to racks of brand-new suits, skirts and blazers of all shapes and sizes, free of charge. With the support of the Seton Hall and South Orange/Maplewood communities and Burlington Stores, Inc., The Pirate’s Closet, filled with new business attire, officially opened in the South Orange Career Center in Spring 2023.

A Boost to the Student Experience If you’ve been to our South Orange campus lately, you’ve experienced our amazing new University Center. It is worth the trip. The wholesale remodeling of the 60-year-old building ranks as the University’s most ambitious project of its kind to date. Reopened in November 2022, following a two-year, top-to-bottom renovation, the center now provides students with a premier engagement experience. From an earlymorning cup of coffee at the new, open-all-day Starbucks to midday lectures and luncheons in the 500-seat Event Room to late-night study sessions in Pirate’s Cove, members of the Seton Hall community now have round-the-clock access to what’s fondly known as the heart of our campus.

The Career Service CS Boutique is where Law School students can “shop” for professional clothes and accessories for free. With the support of Walter Santner, a generous friend of Seton Hall Law, and all those who have donated items, the Boutique offers the offers the professional attire law students need to feel confident at career fairs, interviews and

University Center highlights include: n A new broadcast studio n Enhanced access for people with disabilities n Prayer Room n The O’Brien Art Gallery n The Pirate’s Cove and Pirate’s Lounge n Campus inclusion and community space n An amphitheater

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Global Opportunities

Seton Hall’s New Jersey roots are deep; so are our international relationships. Students in our earliest classes — as far back as the 1850s — arrived from Spain, the Yucatan Peninsula, Cuba and Colombia.

Today, we carry forward this long-held tradition by increasing global opportunities for our students. We’ve added more exchange and study abroad programs and forged new international partnerships because we believe multinational learning and travel open students’ minds, hearts and spirits.

Seton Hall Students At-Home and Abroad This past spring marked the first Rome Connection classes in the Core Curriculum — which are informed by the Catholic Intellectual Tradition — completed the experiential part of their semester in Rome. Led by their professors, four sections of classes, 60 students, visited sites linked to their studies and served the homeless in Saint Peter’s Square.

Also in Rome, Seton Hall student Jackalyn Ballard attended the week-long Summer Leadership Development Program at the prestigious Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas. Along with other emerging lay leaders of the Church from around the world, Ballard examined her life journey through a spiritual lens and listened for the call to leadership and co-responsibility in the Church.

Seton Hall Law students from the EU Business Law course took a trip to Belgium and Luxembourg over spring break to get an in-person perspective on the institutions and legal systems of the European Union. The group attended legal briefings and lectures, spent an afternoon at

the Catholic University of Louvain near Brussels, toured the European Parliament and visited the EU’s Court of Justice.

With the help of Seton Hall’s Mendoza Scholarship, five Seton Hall students will serve as Mendoza Ambassadors, expanding the University’s international footprint. The students — Axel Berglund (Finland), Davide Del Savio (Italy), Prasidh Pradeep (India), Tijana Minic (Serbia) and Toni-Ann Grant (Jamaica) — will meet with prospective students in their home countries during school breaks to share the ways that Seton Hall is a great fit for international students.

Expanded International Partnerships Seton Hall and the Universita Cattaneo LIUC in Italy formed a new partnership this past spring.

The two universities will collaborate on research, increase opportunities for student exchanges and faculty-led study abroad trips, and will launch new experiential learning and summer programs. With the same objectives, Academic Affairs initiated a multi-faceted partnership with Liverpool Hope University in the U.K.

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Separately, Seton Hall and The Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchanges between Italy and the United States signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a Fulbright Research Lectureship Award at Seton Hall for three academic years (2024-27).

The new lectureship will focus on research in specialized areas within the sciences, business and communication, another facet of our historic and growing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs.

“The continued expansion of international partnerships not only creates new opportunities for research, teaching and other exchanges, but also extends Seton Hall brand awareness in the international realm,” says Interim President Katia Passerini, Ph.D.

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World Leaders at Seton Hall Our influential World Leaders Forum speakers’ series returned last year with two major events, hosted by the School of Diplomacy and International Relations. In January, we welcomed Ambassador Csaba Kőrösi, the president of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly.

A career diplomat and a leading voice on the climate crisis, Kőrösi is presiding officer of the UN’s main policymaking forum. In February, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, spoke about the diplomatic work of the Holy See and its unique position in international law and custom. As ambassador to the Holy See, the Apostolic Nuncio is the Vatican’s representative to the Church in the United States and to the country’s government.

Both leaders inspired our students and other attendees to engage in dialogue leading to new paths for building a more peaceful world.

Csaba Kőrösi

Archbishop Christophe Pierre and Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin.

Faith and Mission

Nurturing our faith and tending to the spirit are hallmarks of a Seton Hall education. As a Catholic university, Seton Hall fosters the ongoing interaction of faith and reason in the collaborative and cumulative pursuit of truth. The Catholic Intellectual Tradition invites our University community to be a place of authentic engagement and encounter, committed to both the breadth and the depth of learning.

This includes focusing on the whole person, recognizing the dignity of each person and practicing servant leadership in the pursuit of the common good. Mission-driven initiatives in student life and academics enriched and engaged students in many ways.

Coffee, Conversation and Faith Life today is brimming with information and opportunities, but it can also be rife with stress and disorientation. Seton Hall offers a supportive community where a faith perspective can uplift spirits and provide meaning. Just two of many initiatives that bolstered students last year: n A student-run social media initiative called

Anchored spreads messages of hope and inspiration for anyone who needs a lift. Its posts highlight the richness and diversity of Seton Hall people, projects and ideas. Look for Anchored at #stayanchored. n Agape Latté, co-sponsored by the Center

for Catholic Studies and Campus Ministry, is a national coffee-house-style, faith-based program founded at Boston College that brings students, faculty and administrators together over coffee for casual, open conversations. When students hear their professors and University leaders share their stories of faith and other personal issues, students can connect with them

on a human level. For students not pursuing a faith journey, these conversations provide a chance to reflect on their own spirituality, community and ethics, helping them make sense of the world.

Our Mission in Studies Last spring, leaders of the Ukrainian faithful of different religions gave witness to the experience and travails of the Ukraine-Russia conflict at a special one-day symposium at Seton Hall.

Sponsored by the Department of Catholic Studies, “Faith in Ukraine: A Witness to War” let our community hear moving testimony from representatives of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Jewish faithful of Kiev and Ukraine, and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

In a presentation called “God, Angels and Electromagnetic Radiation: Life Among the Invisible,” chemist and theologian Stacy Trasancos shared how the awe and wonder of modern science and our knowledge of the atomic realm can bring us closer to God.

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New Campus Ministry Director Seton Hall welcomed Father Nicholas Sertich ’15 as director of Campus Ministry. Ordained in 2020, Father Nick is a contemporary of our students, with a deep understanding of their hopes, challenges and experiences. This new position offered him a happy homecoming.

“My time at Seton Hall — especially because of my professors and friends — was profoundly meaningful and changed the way I viewed myself, my faith and my whole world,” he says.

“I’m excited now to have a hand in forming the next generation of ‘great minds.’”

Student-Athletes

Some impressive stats about our student-athletes:

165

Students made the Spring 2023 Dean’s List

46

Students graduated with honors this past May

55

Students earned department academic merit awards for graduating with at least 3.3 cumulative GPA

The benefits of strong athletics programs ripple across the University — boosting school spirit, raising Seton Hall’s national profile, attracting bright new students and building pride among our campus community and alumni. Our commitment to developing the complete studentathlete remains a priority. Seton Hall Athletics facilities have been transformed over the last 10 years, giving student-athletes what they need for intercollegiate competition at the highest level. At the same time, we’ve prepared them academically for life after graduation.

Pirate Softball Wins Big Seton Hall’s softball team topped Villanova, 6-1, to claim the 2023 BIG EAST Tournament championship, the program’s first conference title since 2005. BIG EAST Pitcher of the Year Kelsey Carr threw a complete game, while sophomore Olivia Gilbert homered to drive in two, giving the Pirates an automatic bid into the 2023 NCAA Tournament, their first in 18 years. Despite their best efforts, the Seton Hall team fell to a tough Texas Longhorns squad 8-0 in the first game of the Austin Regional.

New Basketball Practice Facility Seton Hall student-athletes will have a new state-of-the-art basketball practice facility, a major renovation for a new generation of Pirates.

Located within the Richie Regan Recreation and Athletic Center on the South Orange campus, the upgraded facility will include a new field house, basketball court, locker rooms, lounges, offices, sports medicine room, strength and conditioning room, film room and more. We can already hear the sneakers squeaking!

BIG EAST Honors The BIG EAST Conference gave three Seton Hall student athletes Sport Excellence Awards.

Cornelia Jerresand of women’s swimming and diving, Jonathan Luders of baseball, and Abby Wingo of softball made up the trio of Pirate honorees, tying them with Georgetown for the second-most among BIG EAST institutions.

The Sport Excellence Awards are given to one student-athlete in each BIG EAST-sponsored sport based on academic credentials, athletic accolades or performances and volunteer service to the community. Student-athletes who have attained junior academic standing and a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 are eligible.

Pirates Score in the Classroom Of all Seton Hall student-athletes, 83 percent were named to the 2022-23 BIG EAST AllAcademic Team for posting a 3.0 GPA or higher during the academic season. In all, 230 Pirates earned the prestigious academic distinction.

Seton Hall student-athletes continue to excel in the classroom, with their overall cumulative GPA now sitting at an impressive 3.493.

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Research

Seton Hall students reap myriad benefits from University faculty conducting research — either by working directly with professors in discovery or enjoying the educational programs made possible by research grants. At our “High Research Activity” institution — as designated by the Carnegie Classification framework — research initiatives focus on Health and Well Being; Science, Data Science and Analytics; Ethics, Spirituality and Sciences; and Society, Technology, Communication and Culture. In the last few years alone, faculty grant applications have gone up by nearly 60 percent and grant awards have increased nearly 150 percent. Some of the exciting new projects: Avatars, Simulations and a New Kind of Medicine Virtual reality is bringing complex healthcare issues to life at Seton Hall’s School of Health and Medical Sciences (SHMS), thanks to a grant-funded learning simulation project developed by faculty at the School’s Center for Interprofessional Education in Health Sciences.

Last fall, the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions awarded a 2022 Interprofessional Collaboration Research Grant to a stand-out team of SHMS’ Interprofessional Health Sciences campus faculty for their telehealth avatar simulation project. “In healthcare education programs, simulation experiences are used to promote students’ understanding of complex ideas through active learning in a low-stakes environment,” says professor Genevieve Pinto Zipp. Simulated experiences bridge the gap between coursework and clinical experiences

and bring interprofessional students together in real-life settings. “These activities mimic real-world healthcare situations and provide enhanced learning opportunities for our future practitioners,” Zipp adds.

Developing the Future of Offshore Wind Thanks to a state grant, Seton Hall undergraduate (juniors and seniors) and graduate (master’s and Ph.D.) students will be able to conduct offshore wind research alongside faculty advisers. Last spring, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) approved a grant for the Wind Institute Fellowship Program, which will support offshore wind research at private educational institutions in the state, including Seton Hall, through the 2024-25 academic year. Fellows from all participating institutions will come together and participate in several activities, including industrial training, guest lectures, site visits and other activities coordinated by NJEDA.

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Seeking Treatments for Drug-Resistant Fungal Disease The National Institutes of Health has awarded Gregory Wiedman, assistant professor of biochemistry and chemical biology, part of a five-year Research Project Grant (R01) to alleviate drug resistance in fungi to alleviate drug resistance in fungi. Wiedman is studying Cryptococcus neoformans, a deadly fungal pathogen that is highly resistant to drugs and has limited treatment options. In partnership with collaborating laboratories and grant recipients from Rutgers University, Wiedman’s project aims to understand a novel mechanism of antifungal drug resistance and ultimately, develop antibody-based disease prevention and control strategies. While Wiedman’s research is specifically exploring this one pathogen, the project’s findings have the potential to inform how scientists look at drug delivery for fungi as a whole.

Where Technology Meets Baseball It’s no secret that technology is playing a significant role in shaping 21st century baseball.

“Technology is influencing decision-making at every level of the sport, from Little League to the big leagues” says Richard (RJ) Boergers, associate professor in the Department of Athletic Training at the School of Health and Medical Sciences (SHMS).

As Boergers can attest, next-level technology is also having a positive impact on Seton Hall baseball. In SHMS’ state-of-the-art Gait/Motion Analysis Laboratory on the Interprofessional Health Sciences Campus in Nutley, Boergers and a multidisciplinary team work collaboratively to perform cutting-edge motion capture analysis on Pirates pitchers that goes beyond injury prevention, enhancing their all-around performance.

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Nursing and Mobile Health Seton Hall’s College of Nursing won a $3.6 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration through its Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention-Mobile Health Training Program. The mobile health training project allows graduate students in the College’s adult-gerontology primary care, pediatric primary care and the new psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner programs to engage in a semester-long clinical experience on the mobile healthcare units in Newark. Upon completion of their practicum, students will be eligible to receive a $10,000 stipend to offset the cost of tuition, books, travel and other expenses.

By the conclusion of the grant period in 2026, some 133 Seton Hall nursing students will have benefited from this exceptional opportunity.

Better Opioid Use Disorder Treatment When White House officials caught wind of the work being done at Seton Hall to increase medication-assisted treatment training for healthcare students, they wanted to know more. Their curiosity led to a roundtable discussion at the Volunteers of America offices in Collingswood, New Jersey, with Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Dr. Rahul Gupta, Seton Hall University and Hackensack Meridian Health leaders, educators and students. The conversation covered many aspects of the opioid epidemic and highlighted Seton Hall’s College of Nursing and its School of Health and Medical Sciences’ compassionate, humanistic and nonjudgmental curriculum, which gives students the knowledge and training they need to join the effort to end the opioid crisis.

The project that caught the eye of the Biden administration consists of two consecutive threeyear federal grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service, a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Ensuring a Stong Future

Seton Hall hit record fundraising goals last year — with more than $28.4 million raised. This impressive level of support is benefiting our programs, our faculty and our campus, but most importantly, our students — now and in the long term. While federal funding and state grants support important innovative academic programs at Seton Hall campuses across the region, gifts from individual donors are critical to helping us carry out our mission and showing the world what great minds can do.

Funding to Help Seton Hall Serve patients. U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell was instrumental Students and the Community in securing these funds with support from Seton Hall’s School of Law received federal New Jersey’s U.S. senators. funding for increased community-based reentry and support services, thanks to U.S. Sen. Cory A Day of Record Giving Booker. For many years, the Law School has We exceeded our Giving Day goal of 1,856 provided pro bono and related community-based donors (in honor of our founding year) and legal services to underserved populations raised over $1.2 million from more than in Newark and throughout the region. “This 2,300 enthusiastic Pirates. These results are funding will enable the Law School to assist in the highest in terms of dollars raised and reentry by increasing accessibility to relief from number of donors since our first Giving Day criminal records for people who face barriers in 2018. “The results of this year’s Giving Day to reintegration into the community after will have a transformative ripple effect on the incarceration,” said Lori Borgen, associate student experience,” said Jon Paparsenos ’99, clinical professor and director of the Law vice president for University Advancement.

School’s Center for Social Justice. “This will help “Setonians provided resources for scholarships, people in Newark and Essex County address for the growth of several campus programs and legal issues related to their ability to secure a job, initiatives, for Division I athletic programs, the health care, housing and other essential study abroad program and so much more.” aspects of life.”

Gratitude for our 8,500+ Individual Donors Seton Hall’s Interprofessional Health Sciences Over 8,500 Seton Hall donors stepped up to campus (IHS), home to its School of Health the plate last year with gifts totaling over $28.4 and Medical Sciences and College of Nursing, million, exceeding our expectations. We are also received significant federal funding. The profoundly grateful to all the alumni, faculty, money is supporting new equipment and staff, community members, parents, students upgrades to the Simulation Center, which will and other friends who made gifts ranging from ensure future nurses, occupational therapists, $1 to $8 million. Their generosity represented a physician assistants, physical therapists, speech show of faith and trust in our mission to prepare language pathologists and athletic trainers students to be leaders in their professional and are clinically ready before interacting with real community lives in a global society.

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Pirate Pride

History professor William Connell, the La Motta Endowed Chair in Italian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, was honored by the U.S.-Italian Fulbright Commission in celebration of its 75th anniversary year.

David Opderbeck, professor of law and codirector of the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology and the Institute for Privacy Protection, was awarded a Fulbright for his project, “Artificial Intelligence, Privacy and Security.”

Mehmet Alper Sahiner, professor and chair of the Department of Physics, a Fulbright Turkey Distinguished Scholar, was awarded for his research, “Next Generation Thin Film Solar Cells: Improving Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency by Nanoparticles.”

Catherine Tinker, distinguished fellow at the Center for UN and Global Governance Studies within the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, was awarded a Fulbright for research she’ll conduct at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Law School in Porto Alegre, Brazil. She will study a new regional treaty for governance of transboundary fresh water in the Guarani Aquifer, which is located within Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, from the Brazilian perspective.

Fulbright scholar and postdoctoral fellow at the University of San Marino, Italy, Claudio Staiti is in residence at Seton Hall, researching relations between Italy and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Core fellows professor Roger Alfani received a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to conduct research on Congolese refugees in settlement camps in Africa and on their resettlement in the United States, focusing on religion as a coping mechanism.

Professor of management and dean emeritus Karen Boroff was recognized by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point with the Distinguished Alumnus Faculty Award.

Seton Hall University School of Law ranked 31st in the nation for first-time bar passage rate, according to American Bar Association statistics for 2022 bar exam takers.

Thanks to Lesley Risinger, J.D.’03, the director of the Last Resort Exoneration Project at Seton Hall Law, and Michael Risinger, project co-founder and professor emeritus, the State of New York vacated the conviction of Sheldon Thomas and released him from custody. Thomas spent more than 18 years in prison under a wrongful conviction for murder.

The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis named Law Professor Thomas Healy’s latest book, Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia, the winner of the 2021 Hooks National Book Award.

The Financial Times named law professor Andrea McDowell’s book, We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush, one of the 10 best history books of 2022.

Law School alumnus and adjunct professor Michael Noriega was selected by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy to serve as an associate justice for the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Seton Hall’s student-run radio station, WSOU 89.5 FM, celebrated 75 years of continuous operation.

Former creative writing student Naomi ShuyamaGómez ’18/M.A. ’20 won the esteemed O. Henry Award for Short Fiction for her story “The Commander’s Teeth,” in Michigan Quarterly Review.

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“A school’s mission is to develop the sense of the true, the sense of the good and the sense of the beautiful. And this happens through a rich journey made up of many ‘ingredients.’

That is why there are so many subjects!

Because development is the result of various elements which interact and stimulate the mind, the conscience, the affections, the body, etc. …

True education makes us love life, and it opens us to the fullness of life!”

Pope Francis in an address to Italian schoolteachers, parents and students. May 10, 2014.

What great minds can do.

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