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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.

Alumni Giving Spotlight, Winter 2019

Joe & Laura (Ramsdell) Parrillo ’99 and their two children.

Why They Give: Joe and Laura (Ramsdell) Parrillo ’99

Joe and Laura Parrillo knew early on they wanted to stay involved in Assumption throughout their lives. The two met as orientation leaders, graduated together in 1999, and wed at the Chapel of the Holy Spirit years later. Assumption has significantly affected the foundation of their lives.

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.