Four thousand students, faculty, and staff, but only 86 positive coronavirus cases. Marymount University has kept their COVID-19 numbers low since students returned to campus back in August. At the height of the pandemic, the college made the decision to hold their spring 2020 classes completely virtual, but the feedback they received from students […]
The growth of the Hispanic population in the U.S. has boomed in recent decades, and Hispanics now make up the largest racial or ethnic minority in the country, per U.S. Census data. With that growth has come the emergence of Hispanic Serving Institutions. By definition, Hispanic Serving Institutions – or HSIs – are colleges or universities where […]
Position: Irma Becerra, Ph.D., is the seventh president of Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia, a position she has held since 2018. Career highlights: Provost and chief academic officer at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens from 2014 to 2018; vice president, vice provost, entrepreneurship center director and professor at Florida International University from 1996 to 2014. Becerra founded […]
Despite the pandemic, and dozens of COVID-19 cases, Arlington-based Marymount University says the fall semester — conducted with a mix of in-person and virtual classes — was largely a success. “In what has been perhaps the most challenging semester for U.S. higher educational institutions in recent memory, Marymount University has successfully navigated the Fall […]
Marymount University is the first higher education institution in the Commonwealth of Virginia to be designated as a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Its Hispanic population makes up over 25 percent of the undergraduate student body. When she took office as university president in 2018, Dr. Irma Becerra says Marymount’s Hispanic population was 17 percent of the […]
With 25.1% of its undergraduate population identifying as Hispanic, Marymount University became the first Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) in Virginia. Currently, 308 institutions qualify as an HSI, which must enroll at least 25% Hispanic students, according to the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. Overall, among the undergraduate and graduate populations combined, Hispanic students make […]
There are a lot of details still to work out, like hiring a coaching staff, recruiting players, making a schedule and finding a home field. But Marymount University has made the decision to start a women’s softball program, beginning with the 2022 spring season. “We are tremendously excited to welcome even more Saints athletes […]
Since 1950, Marymount University in Arlington has emphasized three core values – one of them being service to others. As the community marked the day of the institutions founding 70 years ago, its members proved that service is not just something they talk about – its evident in their actions. The universitys charter day celebration […]
If there was a sentiment that summed up 2020, it would certainly not be happiness. Between Covids excruciating double whammy of a public health and economic crisis, soaring unemployment, struggling small businesses, hundreds of thousands of deaths, rising rates of depression, reminders of systemic racism and a disturbing political divide all under an […]
Dr. Irma Becerra still rememberswith some disbeliefher first day as an undergraduate in the late 70s, when her university’s president addressed the incoming freshmen by saying, Look to your left, look to your rightonly one of you will graduate. That has been the expectation, says Becerra, now the president of Marymount University, a comprehensive Catholic […]
