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S2 IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 ELCOME to our inaugural Irish degree on time here. S3 Education 100 special supple- Off I went to Trinity in the fall of 1985, and Wment of the Irish Voice. it was an adventure that I will never forget. I It seemed a natural that we should pay trib- studied Irish economics, Russian (yes, ute to the Irish who have made such an Russian!) history, Irish politics and so much indelible mark at colleges and universities more. It was an incredible year, both acade- throughout both the U.S. and Canada. Our mically and personally, and my time in diverse compilation includes presidents and Ireland firmly solidified my affection for professors, trustees and administrators and Ireland and the Irish that continues unabated everyone in between, all of whom share a to this day. common bond — a deep pride in their Our list features many educators and bene- FIRST ANNUAL shared heritage. factors of Irish Studies programs that have IRISH EDUCATION 100 There are Irish, it seems, in every corner of enriched students of all different back- SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT every school that we researched. And Irish grounds. Here in New York, Glucksman Studies programs are springing up all over Ireland House at New York University, SENIOR EDITOR the country, chock full of eager students want- founded by our honoree Loretta Brennan Debbie McGoldrick ing to immerse themselves in all things Irish. Glucksman and her late husband Lew, is a treasure trove of Irishness not only available BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT There really is nothing like flavoring a MANAGER higher education with some Irish spice. I for students, but for anyone who wants to John Dillon graduated from Adelphi University on Long partake of the many Irish cultural and social Island in 1987 – the university’s president, events taking place there on a weekly basis. INTERN Robert A. Scott, is one of our Education 100 Congratulations to this year’s Irish Chris Maiello honorees – and was eager to learn as much Education 100 honorees, who can take a bow about Ireland as I could. knowing that they’ve made significant contri- ART DIRECTOR Though the university did not have an Irish butions to keeping students enlightened and Genevieve McCarthy Studies program I had a very supportive pro- eager to discover more. Education truly is AD DESIGNER fessor who encouraged me in my quest to the key to life! Naela El-Assad spend a year abroad at Trinity College in Dublin, assuring me that all the credits I Debbie McGoldrick COVER DESIGN earned there would be easily transferable so Senior Editor Kevin Kemper that I wouldn’t lose out as far as earning my Irish Voice IRISH VOICE, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 – Tues., Oct. 13, 2009 S4 he was awarded an NEH fel- and approval of new degree pro- lowship at Yale University, and grams and curricula and oversees he subsequently received a grad- the assessment of general education. uate certificate in educational As dean, she has responsibility for management from Harvard faculty development and the University. Teaching Institute, and supervises Bain, who has been a member the Center for Excellence in of the St. John Fisher College fac- Teaching (CET), a state-of-the-art ulty since 1975, is a board mem- technology training facility for fac- ber at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery ulty. in Rochester, and the Rochester Before joining FIT, Bowles was Business Alliance. He is also a director of planning at John Jay member of the New York State College in New York for six years, Magistrates Association after having served as director of Independent Judicial Election both faculty development and fam- Qualification Commission for ily college in the City University the Seventh Judicial District of of New York’s (CUNY) Office of New York State. Academic Affairs. While at CUNY, Bain traces his Irish roots to she also directed the university’s sys- counties Kerry and Cork. He tem-wide efforts in articulation and is a third generation Irish transfer among the 19 CUNY col- American. leges. Last November, he traveled Previous to her administrative to Co. Waterford, Rochester’s sis- positions, Bowles was an assistant ter city, to meet with Waterford professor at Brooklyn College. area business leaders to explore DYMPNA BOWLES A native of Belfast, Bowles received opportunities for educational a bachelor’s degree from St. John’s partnerships for St. John Fisher YMPNA Bowles is dean for cur- University, a master’s from Fordham and DONALD E. BAIN College. The college also houses Driculum and Instruction at the a doctorate in linguistics and reading from number 765 of a limited edition of Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) Columbia University Teachers College. R. Donald E. Bain is the presi- 1,480 facsimilies of the Book of Kells, in New York. She has been at FIT since Bowles also serves as chair of the Ddent of St. John Fisher College and a Great Famine Monument that 2001. CUNY Institute for Irish American in Rochester, New York. was installed on campus in 1997 by Bowles facilitates the development Studies advisory board. Bain holds a BA, MA and PhD from members of the local AOH. the State University of New York at Bain is married with two grown has raised more than $82 million in Buffalo. Following his doctoral work, children. pledges and commitments toward the $90 million goal. State College (now the College of Carney serves on the board of the New Jersey, TCN). She subse- Council of Independent Colleges of New quently joined the Trenton public York and the Association of Franciscan broadcasting TV station and became Colleges and Universities. She is newly an award-winning producer. appointed to the board of the Association Moving from producing to found- of Catholic Colleges and Universities and ing her own public relations firm, is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference’s in 1983 she met Lewis L. Council of Presidents. She also serves on Glucksman, a prominent Wall Street the Secretariat for the Franciscan financier from a second genera- Intellectual Tradition. tion New York Hungarian Jewish Carney received her doctorate in the- family. A second marriage for both, ology in Rome in 1988, becoming the they wed in 1985. first woman to graduate from the Together, Lew and Loretta Franciscan University of Rome at the Brennan Glucksman founded doctoral level. She studied in Europe Glucksman Ireland House, the after completing master’s degrees in the- Center for Irish Studies, at NYU, the ology at Duquesne University and Glucksman Chair of English and Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure. American Letters at NYU, the She has lectured extensively both in the Glucksman Chair of Irish Studies U.S. and abroad and served for eight at NYU, the Glucksman Chair of SISTER MARGARET years as the general minister of her reli- Irish and Scottish Studies at the CARNEY gious congregation, the Sisters of St. University of Aberdeen, and the Francis of Whitehall, Pennsylvania. The Lewis Glucksman Gallery at ISTER Margaret Carney is the 20th congregation serves in the U.S., Brazil, University College Cork. Spresident of St. Bonaventure Lithuania and Bolivia. The Glucksmans made a huge University in western New York. Carney holds five honorary doctorates contribution to philanthropy in Since the beginning of her presiden- and is the recipient of a number of other Ireland, funding various projects cy, St. Bonaventure has invested approx- honors. LORETTA BRENNAN throughout the educational sec- imately $25 million in seven major projects Her maternal grandparents were natives GLUCKSMAN tor, most notably at the University on the 500-acre campus. She is also a dri- of counties Cork and Sligo, while her of Limerick, Trinity College Dublin, ving force in the Anniversary Campaign paternal grandparents hailed from Co. ORETTA Brennan Glucksman is and University College Cork. Lew for St. Bonaventure University, which Mayo. Lthe co-founder and chair of the Glucksman died at the age of 80 in July 2006. advisory board at Glucksman Ireland LARE Carroll is a professor at Glucksman has been the recipient House at New York University. She is CQueens College and the Graduate of many awards for her philanthrop- also one of the Irish American com- Center of the City University of New ic, cultural and educational work. munity’s most prominent philan- York in Queens. She received an honorary doctorate thropists and fundraisers through She received her degrees from Queens from Trinity College Dublin in 1997; her role as chairperson of the College, and is a member of the American an honorary CBE for her contribution American Ireland Fund. Conference for Irish Studies, a schol- to the Northern Irish peace process A third generation Irish American arly organization with approximately in 2002; an honorary fellowship of who traces her roots to counties 800 members in the U.S., Ireland, Canada the Royal College of Surgeons in Leitrim and Donegal, Glucksman and other countries around the world. Ireland in 2005; and most recently an married her high school sweetheart Carroll was a Fulbright Fellow at honorary doctorate from the National Jack Cooney in her early twenties Trinity College in Dublin; an American University of Ireland in 2007. and had three children in quick suc- Cultural Institute Fellow at the National Glucksman has been honored by the cession, two boys, John and University of Ireland, Galway; and a vis- University of Scranton and Fairfield Christopher, and one girl, Kate. Always iting distinguished scholar in Irish Studies University with honorary doctorates, a working mother, she began her at Concordia University in Montreal. and has been an honorary member of career as an English teacher and Carroll’s grandparents were natives of the Royal Irish Academy since 2004.

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