SPRING 2015 MAGAZINEM A G A Z I N E ENTREPRENEURIAL EDGE Page 10 HONOR ROLL OF DONORS Page 37 70505_co2.indd 1 3/31/15 7:10 PM 70505_co2.indd 2 3/31/15 7:10 PM Spring 2015, Volume 12, Number 01 CONTENTS CABRINI Magazine is published by the Marketing and Communications Office. 10 Feature: Entrepreneurial Edge Editor Cabrini alumni share stories Megan Maccherone of starting their own business Writers/Contributors Christopher Grosso Nicholas Guldin ’12 David Howell Lori Iannella ’06 Core Values Megan Maccherone 18 Rachel McCarter Highlights and updates of Cabrini’s Katie Aiken Ritter work for the greater good Photography Discovery Channel Nicholas Guldin ’12 Linda Johnson Kelly & Massa Jim Roese 37 2013-2014 Honor Roll of Donors Stuart Sternberg A special report honoring our donors Matthew Wright President Donald Taylor, Ph.D. Cabinet Beverly Bryde, Ed.D., Dean, Education Celia Cameron Vice President, Marketing & DEPARTMENTS Communications Brian Eury 2 Calendar of Events Vice President, Community Development & External Relations 3 From The President Jeff Gingerich, Ph.D. Interim Provost & Vice-President, 4 News On Campus Academic Affairs Mary Harris, Ph.D., 22 Athletics Interim Dean, Academic Affairs Christine Lysionek, Ph.D. 24 Alumni News Vice President, Student Life Eric Olson, C.P.A. 33 Class Notes Vice President, Finance/Treasurer Etc. Robert Reese 36 Vice President, Enrollment Pierce Scholars’ Food Recovery Management Susan Rohanna Human Resources Director George Stroud, Ed.D. On the Cover: Dean of Students Dave Perillo ‘00 prepares his talk to Cabrini design Marguerite Weber, D.A. Vice President, Adult & Professional students about being a freelance illustrator. Programs Christen Wilson Vice President for Institutional Advancement FOLLOW US Find Cabrini College departments, teams, clubs, students, and alumni on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Contents 2015 © Cabrini College. All rights reserved. No part of this magazine may be blogs. reproduced or otherwise utilized without the written permission of the publisher. Please send e-mail to: [email protected]. Address all correspondence to: For a list of social media accounts: CABRINI Magazine c/o www.cabrini.edu/socialmedia Marketing and Communications Office Cabrini College 610 King of Prussia Road Radnor, PA 19087-3698 70505_co2.indd 1 3/31/15 7:11 PM CALENDAR OF EVENTS Featured Event 26th Annual Cabrini Classic April 16-26 Cabrini College Theatre Presents Presented by USLI ‘Lucky Stiff’ Cabrini Theatre April 16–18, 23–25, 8 p.m. Monday, May 4, 2015 April 19 & 26, 2 p.m. Waynesborough Country Club www.cabrini.edu/LuckyStiff Paoli, Pa. Sunday, April 19 Fire Pink Trio: ‘Poetry in Motion’ Take a swing at supporting Cabrini students at the CD-Release Celebration 26th Annual Cabrini Classic golf tournament, dinner Mansion, 3 p.m. and auction. This year, the College will honor John www.cabrini.edu/trio D. Schanz, a Cabrini Trustee and executive vice president and chief network officer for Comcast Cable. Sunday, May 3 Spring Choral Concert Mansion, 3 p.m. The tournament, with an 11 a.m. shotgun start, is www.cabrini.edu/choral followed by a cocktail reception and silent auction at 4 p.m., and a dinner and live auction at 5:30 p.m. Monday, May 4 Cabrini Classic Non-golfers are invited to register for the 1 p.m. Waynesborough Country Club golf clinic to learn golf rules and etiquette, swing www.cabrini.edu/classic fundamentals, putting and short-game skills. Bid early on auction items such as gift cards to your Thursday, May 7 Graduate Education favorite restaurants, golf outings at Aronimink and Open House other courses, and the BEST suite seats at Citizens Grace Hall, 6–8 p.m. Bank Park. www.cabrini.edu/GradMay NEW THIS YEAR: Sunday, May 17 Commencement: Flower Sale, SPECIAL RATE FOR Legacy Seating and Reception ALUMNI GOLFERS UNDER 40 Upper Athletic Field www.cabrini.edu/alumnievents Alumni under 40 can golf and dine for only $150. A limited quantity of these discounted tickets are Friday, May 29 & Alumni Weekend available. Buy them now at www.cabrini.edu/classic. Saturday, May 30 www.cabrini.edu/alumniweekend15 Special rate made available through the generosity of Thomas P. Nerney ’77. Start bidding and register for the event at www.cabrini.edu/classic. 2 | CABRINI Magazine 70505_co2.indd 2 3/31/15 7:11 PM MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Cabrini College community, Cabrini College’s plan for the future—the Cabrini 2020 continue with their education and earn a degree. While Roadmap to Growth—has been called “entrepreneurial.” freezing tuition, fees, and room and board is appealing While that adjective was assigned by others, I don’t to students selecting a college, it also keeps Cabrini disagree. For any institution of higher education to affordable for current students and helps keep the cost not just survive but to thrive, they need to adopt the of earning a degree manageable. practice of successful entrepreneurs, like the alumni entrepreneurs in this edition of Cabrini Magazine. Reading about these entrepreneurs, I was struck by their In fact, rather than describe the Cabrini 2020 Roadmap combination of business-mindedness and strong sense of to Growth as mission-driven entrepreneurism, we social responsibility. Cabrini College is doing the same. should just describe it as Cabrinian. After all, what Mother Cabrini did was grow her first Missionary Sisters into a global religious order, while remaining true to In the pages of this Magazine, you’ll read about some of the order’s beliefs and charism. Mother Cabrini proved the entrepreneurial initiatives that have already begun you can take an organization to new heights of success at the College. For example, Cabrini partnered with while remaining grounded. You can call that “mission- LaSalle University for a 4+1 MBA program, giving us an driven entrepreneurialism” if you’d like. I’m okay with additional offering attractive to prospective students. that. I’ll stick with calling it Cabrinian. You’ll read about Richie Gebauer’s great work with the First-Year Experience at Cabrini, which helps keep students enrolled at the College. You’ll also read about In the Cabrini tradition, Cabrini freezing tuition, fees, and room and board makes Cabrini appealing to students shopping in the competitive educational marketplace. Donald B. Taylor, Ph.D. While these are business-focused, entrepreneurial President initiatives, they are also mission-based. They accomplish both simultaneously. By offering the 4+1 MBA partnership with La Salle to attract more students, it also allows Cabrini students to graduate with an MBA degree one-year sooner than normal, saving them a year’s worth of tuition. Equally, while the First-Year Experience programs help retain students at Cabrini, it also supports students most at-risk for dropping out to Spring 2015 | 3 70505_co2.indd 3 3/31/15 7:11 PM NEWS ON CAMPUS Bucking the Trend Just months after welcoming the College’s largest “There is ample evidence that standardized tests are incoming class in six years, Cabrini announced that it not suitable indicators of student success,” said Robert would freeze undergraduate tuition and adopt a test- Reese, vice president of enrollment management. “That, optional admissions policy for the 2015-16 academic year. along with high costs associated with the test, may hinder talented students from applying. This policy helps Cabrini Tuition for full-time undergraduate students will remain at find the ‘best fit’ student who will succeed in the College’s the current level of $28,932 through May 2016. The freeze extraordinary academic program.” extends a pledge that the College made three years ago to keep tuition and fees under $30,000 (the original For more information on the test-optional policy, visit pledge was planned through May 2015). Fees and room www.cabrini.edu/admissions. Students and families and board also will not increase next year. also may use the Cabrini College net-price calculator at www.cabrini.edu/cost to estimate the cost to attend the In an interview with The Loquitur, President Donald College. Taylor, Ph.D., acknowledged that any increase in tuition is a struggle for students and their families. “We’re going to fix the costs, really watch our expenses and Media Attention: expand revenue in other ways, all to allow us to keep the undergraduate experience as affordable as we can,” he Cabrini College’s announcement was featured said. in news segments and publications including Inside Higher Ed, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The College’s test-optional policy furthers a holistic The Philadelphia Business Journal, 6abc Action approach to the application process and helps to ensure a News, PHL 17 Eye Opener and more than 225 Cabrini education is accessible to motivated students. websites, including Yahoo! News, Bloomberg Business and MarketWatch. Forging New Partnerships At the end of 2014 Cabrini College officially forged new Catholic High School, Pope John Paul II High School and partnerships with eight Pennsylvania high schools and Woodlynde School. Also present were representatives La Salle University. from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. “Partnerships On Dec. 17, Cabrini College and La Salle University signed are the future of I think it’s just a into effect a 4+1 MBA program, which allows Cabrini education,” said business majors or students in the pre-cert MBA track to Cabrini College win-win for the apply and enroll in the La Salle University MBA program. President Donald students.” The program can be completed in one year after students B. Taylor, Ph.D. “ graduate from Cabrini. “The collaboration with our partner schools expands Cabrini’s commitment to students and helps them get “The students really save a year and get two degrees, ahead in their college and professional careers.” [have] less debt, so they’re able to finish up faster,” Taylor said in an interview with Erica Abbott ’17 of Cabrini’s At a signing event on Dec.