As Marymount University celebrates its 75th anniversary year, it also celebrates another impressive milestone—a new all-Hispanic executive board of the Student Government Association (SGA). This year sees senior Sofia Jubraj elected by students to serve as SGA President, senior Adriana Rodriguez-Denner as Vice President, junior Isabella Rivera as Secretary and senior Richard Flores as Treasurer. […]
Last month, student leaders announced the founding of a Marymount University chapter of the Association of Latino Professionals for America (ALPFA), a national organization aimed at creating career development opportunities for Hispanic students and allies. Leading the student chapter are senior business majors Rudy Sanchez and Adriana Rodriguez-Denner, who will be serving as president and […]
The Potomac Health Foundation has awarded its Howard L. Greenhouse Grant to Marymount’s Center for Optimal Aging to assist in the expansion of the University’s new ALOHA (Arlington Longitudinal Optimal Healthy Aging) initiative. With $150,000 in grant funding, the Center will transform the traditional health screening model into a mobile, community-focused wellness program designed to […]
Marymount University President Irma Becerra delivered the keynote address at the inaugural Summit for Advancing the Higher Education Pathway in the Southeast for Hispanics and Latinos, held at the University of South Carolina (USC) last month. The event, co-hosted by USC’s Latino and Hispanic Faculty Caucus and SC Centro Latino, brought together a wide range […]
Marie Arana, a Washington Post writer and inaugural literary director of the Library of Congress, served as this year’s guest speaker at Marymount University’s Marya McLaughlin Lecture in Media Communications in the Reinsch Library Auditorium. A Peruvian-American who has written extensively on Latin America, Hispanic identity and biculturalism through nonfiction and fiction works, she shared […]
As Virginia’s first and only Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), Marymount University is now doubling down on its commitment to support the educational success of minority students through a new partnership with the American Latino Veterans Association (ALVA). “Marymount is dedicated to providing a pathway to education for all those who seek it, and it’s our […]
Achieving a significant enrollment milestone this fall, Marymount University has become the first higher education institution in the Commonwealth of Virginia to qualify as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). As defined in Title V of the Higher Education Act, HSI’s are not-for-profit, accredited institutions of higher learning with a full-time equivalent undergraduate student enrollment that […]
