Marymount University is developing plans and procedures to reopen in-person instruction starting with the fall semester. We are looking forward to providing that advantageous environment for learning once again, while also making certain that we have all of the proper measures and procedures in place so that students feel comfortable returning to campus, university […]
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education: Top 35 Women in Higher Education
Diverse salutes this years Top 35 Women in Higher Education. Dr. Irma Becerra President, Marymount University Becerra is the seventh president of Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. Becerra is known for expanding educational access for students and creating programs to meet societal needs and changing demographics. She has blended mathematics, engineering and systems […]
The Arlington Catholic Herald: New scholarship for DACA recipients at Marymount
Treisy Primitivo spent most of her childhood not sure whether she and her family would continue to live in Washington or go back to Mexico. It made it difficult to plan for the future, to think about things such as whether or not she would go to college. Though she was born in Mexico, shes […]
WDVM: Marymount University announces partnership for new online programs
Marymount University officials announced a strategic partnership with Keypath Education Thursday to offer new online programs for students. According to Marymount University, the new online course programming will expand the Marymount curriculum to a wider national audience. The first courses will be available for the Fall 2020 semester and will be centered on […]
VOA: Virginia school offers scholarships to DACA recipients
When Irma Becerra took over as president of Marymount University in 2018, one of the first tasks presented to her was finding funding for some of the nearly 80 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients on campus. I think I was a president for a week when the students were sitting around my […]
Washington Business Journal: Viewpoint: Ending DACA will harm our region, economy
By Irma Becerra – Contributing Writer Home is here! Thats what dozens of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients chanted while walking out onto the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, standing in front of hundreds of supporters, activists and organizers. And truly, this is home. DREAMers are deeply ingrained in American communities, have […]
WDVM: Marymount University fundraises for DREAMers scholarship
In its first year of partnering with The Dream.US, an organization that provides scholarships for immigrant DREAMers, Marymount University is fundraising for its own scholarship for DREAMers, who are ineligible for federal funding. The scholarship is open to all 50 of Marymounts DREAMers. This fall, six students received The Dream.US scholarships, worth up to $29,000 […]
ARLnow: Marymount launches Dreamers scholarship program
Marymount University has launched a new scholarship program for its Dreamer students, starting in the 2020-21 school year. The school officially announced its Dreamers Scholarship Program last night at a kick-off party in the universitys Main House, where Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va) and university president Irma Becerra gave remarks. Marymount is a special place, it is a recognized […]
Washington Business Journal: Viewpoint: Virginia must up TAG funding to level education access
By Irma Becerra – Contributing Writer No one can take away your education. Those words that I heard early on from my grandparents have always stayed with me throughout my life. As a Cuban immigrant and a Latina who grew up in Puerto Rico, Ive often felt like the outsider looking in at an […]
InsideNoVa.com: Marymount president affirms ambitious growth plan
With Marymount Universitys 70th anniversary just a flip of the calendar away, the institutions president says its time to up both its game and its public persona. We do have a lot of competitors we are competing for the same students, Irma Becerra said during remarks on Nov. 20. Part of my role […]
