THE D’YOUVILLE MAGAZINE / WINTER 2020 You can see the future of healthcare from here. PAGE 8 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT It’s a new day at D’Youville Contents 2 AROUND CAMPUS ince our founding in 1908, opportunity to many more students and D’Youville has maintained an their families. 6 A LEGACY OF FRIENDSHIP unwavering commitment to serving Expanding Say Yes Scholarships at 8 THE D’YOUVILLE DIFFERENCE our community. I am proud that our D’Youville is just one way we are serving Srecord of enrolling and graduating high- our community. As you will read later in How D’Youville is shaping need and first-generation college students this issue, we are meeting the needs of the healthcare in WNY is recognized by U.S. News & World Report next generation of college students through 6 14 MOVING FORWARD in their 2020 Social Mobility ranking. summer camps, state-of-the-art classrooms that improve pedagogy and student So long, D’Youville shuffle As part of our commitment to social performance, and college credits that are mobility, D’Youville is now offering unlimited earned at no cost to the student through 16 MAKING AN IMPACT Say Yes to Education scholarships to our new Early College Bridge Program. students from eligible high schools, and 17 STUDENT STORIES we have designed a new Early College Our Early College Bridge Program is Halimah McBryde ’20 Bridge Program that extends our healthcare designed to meet the needs of students focused courses into local high schools. of today, as well as the expectations of 18 BUILDING A BRIDGE TO SUCCESS students of tomorrow. This fall, local high 14 Say Yes to Education is a national, school students began taking advantage 20 STUDENT STORIES nonprofit organization that provides of our new healthcare pathway that leads Dina Al-Hashimi ’20 a comprehensive array of services to stackable credits and certificates. These to increase high school and college credits they earn while still in high school 21 SAYING THANKS graduation rates across some of the nation’s help students graduate on time and puts Victoria Christopher ’70 lowest-income school districts. Locally, them on a highly affordable pathway to a 79% percent of Buffalo Public School college degree. 22 FACULTY STORIES students are from low-income families. The healthcare pathway has three tracks Q&A with Gaia Bistulfi Amman, PhD We have had an overwhelming demand for including health professions, pharmacy, and the 10 Say Yes to Education scholarships nursing. Students can earn an advanced 23 FACULTY UPDATE that we have offered since 2013. The new certificate in Pharmacy Technician as well as 8 26 Carole Gutt, EdD agreement with Say Yes allows us to offer associate degrees in Community Health and an unlimited number of scholarships to Pharmacy Studies. 24 ATHLETICS ROUND-UP qualified students from Buffalo, Syracuse, Cleveland, and Guilford County, North Many individuals who would benefit from a 26 ALUMNI EVENTS Carolina. college degree have significant household responsibilities that make completing a Editor Cathy Wilde, Alumni and Donor Communications Manager 28 CLASS NOTES D’Youville’s signature investment in Say traditional four-year program difficult. These Yes to Education will inspire high school learners will have the ability to move in and Designer Pete Reiling 31 BACKSTAGE AT students to believe that an academically out of higher education as their family and Writers AnneMarie Haumesser, EdD, Stephen McCarthy, Melinda Miller, Loraine O’Donnell, THE KAVINOKY rigorous education at a private nationally professional obligations change. ranked university is possible for them. Every Gary Steltermann, and Jennifer Tuttle In designing programs that expand access student should be empowered to attend the Photographers Dylan Buyskes, Stephen Gabris, Robert Kirkham, John McKeith, Brandon Moran, to higher education we are growing our best school for them because completing Nathan Paracciny, Nancy Parisi, Joed Viera, Gene Witkowski, and Thomas Wolf college will profoundly improve their life, mission and adapting our institution to stay and that of their family, for generations to relevant in a fast-changing landscape of Vice President for Institutional Advancement Pamela Say, CFRE come. These scholarships will offer that higher education. Associate Vice President for Philanthropy and Engagement AnneMarie Haumesser, EdD Director of Marketing and Brand Management Jesse Stoddard Director of Public Relations Jennifer Tuttle LORRIE A. CLEMO, PHD D’YOUVILLE PRESIDENT D’MENSIONS is published twice a year by D’Youville’s Division of Institutional Advancement. Send correspondence, address changes and Class Notes to [email protected] D’MENSIONS WINTER 2020 1 AROUND CAMPUS Unveiling our Grants fund new programs New dean, vice brand new brand president named in health professions, nursing ince our humble beginning, D’Youville has utilized education, Georita Marie three-year, $680,000 grant PHOTO: BRANDON MORAN guided by compassion and empathy, to improve ourselves, Frierson, PhD, is the from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) our families, our neighborhood, and our global community. new dean of the School More than a century after its founding, the school has entered Opioid Workforce Expansion of Arts, Sciences, and Sinto a new era: one marked by positive transformation, remarkable AProgram (OWEP) Paraprofessionals Education (SASE). growth, and sustainable innovation that will shape our future. Program will help D’Youville develop Frierson will oversee a Substance Use Disorder Support Rooted in the foundation Specialist Certificate Program for the implementation of the university’s mission new and existing behavioral health of leadership and service, of the redesigned paraprofessionals. D’Youville also will we have grown into an core curriculum; creatively grow student establish partnerships with community institution redefining the role of higher education through the development enrollment within the school in both online behavioral health organizations to of thriving communities. While Buffalo has long been known as “the city and on-campus programs; reinvigorate the provide experiential training sites for of good neighbors,” our university is poised to be the city’s “neighborhood paraprofessional trainees in underserved school through collaborative ties throughout university” — a community that is dynamic and global; living out the areas of Western New York. campus and through K-12 partnerships; university’s mission in Western New York and around the world. “D’Youville believes this program will and act as a driving force for the creation provide paraprofessional trainees Through discussions and workshops, we invited the community to participate of new degree programs. She is a licensed with enhanced clinical judgment in this process and provide feedback about the story of D’Youville: where and reasoning to prepare them we’ve been, where we’re going, and who we are. In learning about the clinical psychologist and previously for providing care, especially for THUMBS UP school’s shared goals and the strengths that can drive us forward as an served as department head and professor Denise Dunford, DNS, FNP-BC, APRN, chair of graduate nursing programs and director of the Family Nurse Practitioner program; vulnerable populations in areas where Christine Verni, EdD, FNP-BC, APRN, dean of the School of Nursing; and Mimi Steadman, EdD, vice president for academic affairs. institution, a new brand and logo identity was strategically developed to in the Department of Psychology there is a shortage of behavioral be a powerful and enduring catalyst for who we are as an institution and at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. health professionals,” said D’Youville Briana Jegier, PhD, associate professor in an effort to increase the number of health services administration. of nurses entering the workforce. our potential for the future. This new brand and logo identity repositions us President Lorrie Clemo, PhD. from a small, modest college rooted in a Catholic heritage on Buffalo’s West Pamela Say The primary partner in the project is D’Youville’s Patricia H. Garman School Through this grant, which offers up to Side to a first-choice university — regionally, nationally, and internationally. of Nursing received a $401,442 grant 85% loan forgiveness for nurses who was named Horizon Health Services, the largest, most comprehensive provider of from the U.S. Department of Health and pursue work as faculty, the School of vice president services for mental health and substance Human Services. Congressman Brian Nursing can focus on recruitment and Clemo named to Power 125 Women for institutional use disorders in Western New York. Higgins announced the Nurse Faculty mentorship of nurses who aspire to advancement. In “Producing the program together will Loan Program grant during a press nursing faculty roles. The university D’Youville President Lorrie Clemo was named to the Power 125 Women conference at D’Youville. The grant is will use the resources to support 20 this role, she will allow employers to provide hands-on list by Buffalo Business First for 2019. Clemo, who comes in at No. 36 assistance to educators so that students a loan forgiveness incentive aimed at masters and eight doctoral students lead strategic this year, has been named to the list for the third straight time. Each are job-ready at completion,” said training qualified nurse educators who commit to future teaching roles. visioning to build of the women selected to the list are recognized for their talents and and strengthen relationships with a influence fueling economic, social, and cultural growth in Buffalo. broad range of constituencies and to New marketing degree launches encourage the advocacy of, investment in, and support of the university’s initiatives, D’Youville will expand our business professor in the Department of Business. Want more D’Youville news? programs, and students, as well as execute offerings to include a Bachelor of The marketing program will teach Science in Marketing beginning in students to understand consumer needs Check out our monthly newsletter, D’Youville Digest.