Campus News

Campus News, Winter 2019

Assumption Welcomes Six New Faculty to Campus

Assumption Welcomes Six New Faculty to Campus

Assumption welcomed six new faculty members to campus for the 2018-19 Academic Year.

Campus News, Winter 2019

Assumption Receives CASE Award

Assumption Receives CASE Award

Assumption was recognized with a 2018 CASE Educational Fundraising Award for institutional excellence in fundraising programs in higher education. Assumption was selected to receive the award based off of three years of fundraising data and is one of six institutions to receive the recognition in the category of institutions.

Campus News, Winter 2019

On October 18, Lawrence O'Donnell – political analyst, actor, writer, and host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell – presented the inaugural lecture of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan  Center for Scholarship and Statesmanship at Assumption College. His lecture, titled “A Personal Reflection on Daniel Patrick Moynihan: The Scholar and Statesman,” was a personal and professional reflection of his time working for the late senator  and how Sen. Moynihan influenced his career.

Institution Establishes Daniel Patrick Moynihan Center to Bridge Scholarship and Statesmanship

Assumption established the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Center for Scholarship and Statesmanship, an endeavor with a national reach cultivating citizen inspired by the senator’s example to appreciate the link between ideas and action. The institute is funded by grants from the Thomas W. Smith Foundation and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Campus News, Winter 2019

Greg Weiner, Ph.D., Named Next Provost of Assumption

Greg Weiner, Ph.D., Named Next Provost of Assumption

Greg Weiner, Ph.D., associate professor of political science, was named the next provost of Assumption, effective next academic year. Prof. Weiner’s appointment follows the retirement announcement of current Provost and Academic Vice President Louise Carroll Keeley, Ph.D., who will retire at the end of the current 2018–19 academic year.