Good afternoon colleagues and friends and welcome.
to the faculty convocation.
Traditionally, we begin the program with the singing.
of the Star Spangled Banner, singing the.
national anthem. This afternoon is Seton Hall.
University student.
Now small, who is a diplomacy in.
social work major after the singing?
of the national anthem, father Brian muses.
assistant professor in the school of diplomacy.
and international relations, will deliver the.
invocation.
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Let us place ourselves in the spirit prayer.
God.
The members of the human family address you by different names.
and in different ways.
I will address you in the Catholic manner.
In the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Heavenly father.
At the beginning of this new academic year, as.
we come before you, full of thoughts and feelings.
intimations and expectations.
fears and hopes.
We recall your words of comfort and assurance.
I am with you always, even until.
Loving God, this beginning is totally.
new for some of us, especially many of our students.
Turn the sadness of leaving family and familiarity.
into the gladness of new friends and Opportunities.
Turn anxiety about academics into.
quiet confidence in your guidance.
For all of us we have never be gonna school.
year in an environment quite like this one.
Open our eyes and minds to see and.
understand their own good and the good of our neighbor.
Renew our perspectives that we may see.
people, circumstances, events and academic.
work as invitations. Developed the many gifts.
you have given us to be used in service of others that.
and we may experience success.
health and growth.
Faithful God.
Some in our community are in their final year.
at Seton Hall University.
Bless them with gratitude for the friends they have.
made with wonder for the way their minds.
and hearts have been changed and with hope.
for the opportunities that lie ahead.
Gracious God bless each member.
of the Seton Hall University community with.
the 7 gifts of your Holy Spirit, A.
spirit of wisdom and understanding.
A spirit of counsel and strength.
A spirit of knowledge and Piety and reference.
And so joining our hearts minds.
and spirits, we pray direct.
lord, all our actions by your holy inspiration.
and carry them on by your gracious assistance.
so that every prayer and worked with Ours May.
always begin with you and buy you.
be happily ended through Christ our Lord, Amen.
In the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Thank you Ella and father Brian.
President Nair
Provos Pastorini
Doctor Farina Doctor Night.
Newly promoted faculty and colleagues welcome.
our annual faculty convocation. My name.
is Richard Winchester, associate professor from the.
law school.
And it is my pleasure to convene us all here today.
as we recognize faculty accomplishments, an.
in a very special way. Welcome new faculty.
This afternoon we celebrate the bonds that join.
us together and share in the renewed NRG.
gy and excitement as we begin a new academic year.
Let us begin.
To present the necrology I would like to welcome doctor.
Beth Jameson, assistant professor from the college.
of Nursing.
Or disease colleagues.
Department of psychology associate.
dean for academic affairs and planning in the college.
of Arts and science.
Doctor Nicholas DD pro SP.
Founding Dean School of graduate medical education.
In our school of Health and medical sciences.
Reverend John F Morley.
Department of religion.
Doctor John J Sacrament.
Professor Emeritus, Department of mathematics.
and computer science.
Doctor Robert Shapiro
Department of accounting and taxation.
Doctor Charles Young
Professor Emeritus.
University libraries.
Thank you Doctor Jameson.
It is now my pleasure to introduce the chair with faculty.
Senate and invite him to say a few words.
Doctor Jonathan Farina.
Is the chair of the Faculty Senate and an associate professor.
in the English department doctor farina.
Welcome back colleagues and a special welcome to our new faculty.
We're lucky to have you. I congratulate those of you.
who've been tenured and promoted as one of the least at.
least two people at Seton Hall who think we should wear our academic.
regalia every week. I earnestly regret that you do not have.
the chance to celebrate with us in your new gowns. I trust you're.
wearing them at home as I do this week. I've.
been teaching Jane Austen's pride and prejudice. It is an.
exquisite novel dramatic irony and sarcasm.
Caricature and realism, tea drinking, long walks.
gossip a sassy protagonist Elizabeth and a brooding.
love interest darcy. All things that I love.
That said, the novel is also the product and the representation.
of a deeply troubled world.
At the turn of the 19th century novel readers novels.
and the tea and great houses they describe were only.
possible because of the enormous wealth generated by the slave trade.
colonial exploitation and a class system.
that maintained terrific economic and social iniquity.
Austin ignores almost the entire working class except.
for a few shopkeepers, lawyers, and shop owners because.
Because they are useful props for the plot of the affluent.
It Pride and prejudice is progressive in its portrayal of women circa.
1800. It is still nevertheless sexist.
and RC's convention breaking desire for Elizabeth.
only camouflages her real impetus to marry financial.
security and prestige.
But still, I love the novel.
In Class I discuss all these sorted aspects of Pride and prejudice.
not only because they intersect with the interests of my students.
but also because they are the truth pride.
and prejudice represents the world selectively ignoring.
and glossing over sometimes terrible realities, and.
mbracing others.
Honestly, knowing the novel and the culture it represents requires.
that we recognize that people it does not represent and those in.
equities it reinforces or complacently accepts.
But we do not stop reading or enjoying the novel because of these shameful.
flaws, or it's shamefully flawed culture.
If we are to be.
And to teach our students to become proactive.
citizens and allies and making a better world we need.
to be critical even of the things and the people we love.
And we need to be able to forgive and love the things we critique.
Critical thinking has purpose. It is a form of care.
I talk about critiquing Austin here partly to remind us all that we.
need to demonstrate the ways our subjects intersect with.
and inform the concerns of our students and their world and.
that we need to remember to critique even what?
we love.
Precisely because we love it.
But I also talk about critiquing Austin because I'm sick of hearing.
the lament that faculty in general are always too critical or negative.
and that the annual complication remarks of the Senate in particular.
ought to be inspirational and positive.
Faculty are no more interested in teaching complacency.
than I am interested in inspiring it. I am interested in change.
We have faculty who deeply like and faculty who.
unequivocally love Seton Hall. Yet none do so.
under the delusion that it is flawless.
Most faculty here are genuinely grateful to Seton Hall for the opportunity.
and community affords us, but we are sometimes nonetheless.
as ashamed of it as I am with the novels I love and teach.
As it happens, blushes first infrequently.
betray Elizabeth unconscious attraction to Mr. Darcy.
s blushes had betrayed, met so many of us with the mr.
Darcy's in our lives.
Elizabeth blushes because of how her obnoxious mother behaves.
in front of him. She blushes because she cares.
for both her family, tacky and flawed as they are.
And for Darcy Snobbish as he is.
Let our annual blushes fostered by our convocation marks.
d by all of our critical exchanges.
remind us that critique is a form of care and.
that silence agreement and gratuitous self congratulation.
are more often than not, forms of carelessness.
No speech could magically make this crazy semester all a pluses.
and fresh apples on the desk and we can eat in the classrooms.
anyway, so put away your Apple and take the pledge.
Remote Hyflex then who knows what?
with masks on and plexiglass up this semester.
will be extraordinarily trying on our patients and on our nerves.
We are fortunate to have so many flexible, resilient, intelligent.
and caring colleagues among us.
No matter how we will teach them engaging Leanne with care.
Even without the pandemic, however, universities face.
lots of challenges. Let's face them openly, directly.
honestly, and aggressively. No complacency.
no fear of taking the risks necessary to redress.
What makes us ashamed?
So what makes me ashamed?
This past year, Seton Hall made substantial progress adjusting.
the proportion of money it spends on instruction relative.
to administration and other non instructional costs.
But we still spend way too little of the budget per student.
on instruction.
Seton Hall still makes far too many decisions based.
on enrollments rather than a clear academic vision.
Call me Elizabeth Bennett. I blush at that.
We need to decide what curricula we prescribe for our students.
and to make our decisions based on how best to provide those.
curricula with the highest quality we can afford we.
need to evaluate faculty based on the quality of the contributions.
they make to that education, as scholars and as teachers.
rather than the number of majors or students in their classes.
at a given time.
Seton Hall also has way too many colleges and programs.
relative to its resources and size, and so every.
We're not married to Darcy and we know it, but.
we haven't done anything about it. So I'm blushing from my bosom.
to my bonnet.
But blushing is transformation alh in Pride and prejudice.
Embarrassment and companies. The increasing self awareness and social.
success of its principle characters.
The most transformational moment of the novel comes when Elizabeth.
reads and re reads Darcy's explanation of the.
illain, wickhams deceitful scheming she.
then experiences feelings more acutely painful.
and difficult of definition, as Austin says.
Astonishment, apprehension and even horror.
That's about how I felt this week when I read and reread the adverse aerial.
defensive, distracting, and legalistic response to the faculties.
request for a more flexible, reasonable, and compassionate.
approach to adjustments.
If we treat each other as adversaries, we undermine the idea of.
a university, and needless to say, we ruin.
our prospects for marrying up.
But shame and horror such as this enable Elizabeth to realize.
what and whom she actually loves and it.
can do the same for us.
We need to reset and move on with greater transparency.
compassion and shared decissions that respect.
what we are as an academic institution.
We have much to be hopeful for us. We begin to address our challenges.
Last year we all participated in the composition.
of a strategic plan that the board of Regents will vote appan next month.
I think Andy, Simon and Alisha mcleod for their excellent work.
Co. Chairing that inclusive process.
Part of the strategic plan calls for us to foster a more diverse.
inclusive, and equitable campus culture and the university.
is already implementing that goal with a collaborative.
cloth cross functional team I.
trust we will all contribute to that effort and out of class.
Whether we're on the DE committees or not.
The plan also calls for us to provide a distinctive and rigorous.
education in the liberal arts tradition that also.
informs curated professional and graduate programs to.
be clear, curated does not mean and cannot.
mean Hoarded.
We need to decide what we're not going to do and.
to reinvest in teaching integrated liberal arts and select.
professional and graduate programs really well.
Getting by with further across the board. Financial cuts.
to everything and everyone would preserve only the same.
underachievement. An adverse aerial silos that hamper us.
now so we need to decide what curricular.
offerings in classes are most necessary to the education we have.
imagined. And then we need to reorganize the colleges.
to create the most efficient structure for providing that curriculum.
with genuine quality.
We cannot sustain graduate programs where we do not.
have the depth and caliber of faculty or the student demand.
to be competitive.
We need to shed some programs based on our.
academic vision and in so doing we need.
to be mindful that classes and faculty members are valuable.
even if they are not part of a major or a minor or an entire department.
Liberally educated students need serious coursework.
in music and Drama, Religion, Classics.
Art, languages, math, and more, even if.
they're not majoring in them.
We can be creative organizing fields where we cannot.
afford whole departments.
But we must insist upon teaching all of these disciplines.
including most, especially our core with.
qualified research, active scholars, and.
ngaging teachers with the same opportunities for tenure.
as those in popular majors.
We need to teach students why are subjects matter and.
to demonstrate that they manner to us by.
investing in them. We need to avoid transforming.
into a place that only teaches what students think they need to know.
and instead teach students what will prepare them for.
a future that they cannot predict.
Our strategic plan says we aspire to provide all students the education.
to become adaptable, imaginative, resilient, ethical.
And successful individuals that won't happen.
by accident. We need to teach those dispositions.
in skills intentionally, and doing so starts by.
practicing these qualities as an institution.
Let's together be imaginative, resilient, ethical.
and successful. Like Elizabeth Bennett let's.
embrace our shame as an agent of self awareness and maturation.
Let's care by being honest and self critical.
Let's realize the plan we have crafted so that we emerge.
from the pandemic as a more efficiently organized and collaborative.
higher quality and happier university stay.
safe everybody and go Pirates.
Thank you doctor Farina.
We are fortunate this afternoon to welcome our new provost.
as our keynote speaker.
Doctor Katia Passerini joined Seton Hall.
on June 5 of this year's provost and.
executive vice president prior to.
coming to Seton Hall, Dr. Passerini was.
the Leslie age and William L Collins Distinguished.
chair and dean of the Collins College of professional.
Studies at St John's University where.
she also held a professor appointment in the division of.
computer science, mathematics and science.
Doctor Passerini was the Hurlburt chair and professor.
of Management Information Systems.
At the Morton Tuchman School of Management, New Jersey.
Institute of Technology.
She held a joint appointment in the information.
systems department in the College of computing sciences.
She served as Dean for the Albert Dorman Honors College.
Not the press renies extensive bio is in the factory.
convocation program.
To see the Doctor Passerini's tenure at Seton Hall.
has begun in the most trying of times would.
be an understatement. But she has risen to the challenge is and continues.
to do so on a daily basis let.
us welcome today's keynote speaker, provos.
atia Passerini.
I think yes.
Good afternoon everyone.
Dear faculty
this is a great day for many of us.
For some of you, the first complete convocation.
For me too, it's the first complication that sit in a hole.
For many others, especially the newly promoted.
faculty, one of the many that you've attended.
then will continue to attend.
This is a day of joy.
Hope.
And restart.
Yes, we are restarting today.
In the middle of what we know and we do not.
know yet.
Full of hopes.
But also full of Trepidations.
Even if I've been teaching 17 years the 1st.
t day in person classes was always nerve.
wracking for me.
And I suspect it's for many of us today.
I will not be long in my remarks as I wish to use my time.
to the many people that we are here to celebrate.
and recognize today.
But I just wish to share a poem.
Rather if able.
One of it is ops fabled the Greek near Raider was captured.
our imagination for century with his shirt.
It goes like this.
In a field one summer's Day a grasshopper.
was hopping about.
Chirping and singing to its art content.
An ant pass by bring along with.
great toil, an ear of corn. He was taken to.
the nest.
Why not come and chat with me, said the grasshopper.
instead of toiling in morning in that way.
I'm helping to lay.
Food for the winter's at the end.
And recommend that you do the same.
Why bother about Winter, said the grasshopper?
We've got plenty of food at present.
But then it went, so went on and continued.
When the winter came, the Grasshopper had no food.
Dance distributing the corn and grain, they're.
ollected in the summer.
Then the grasshopper knew.
It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.
This is what we have done.
This is what seasonal university is done during the summer.
We prepared for our restart.
We prepared for safe reopening and we.
work very hard to be here for the days and years I've.
of us.
You are here today because you have prepared for the winter.
You have worked very hard in achieved your.
deserve promotion to full professor.
An promotion to associate professor.
Or I've achieved the distinguished status of emeritus faculty.
Or the words that would be compared today.
For our new faculty.
You have also prepared for this moment this new star.
An I encourage you to reach out to the colleagues see in.
program book.
Because they might be your future mentors.
They might be those guiding you through your journey while.
you work to prepare for your future at Seton Hall.
Unfortunately, our immediate future seemed one.
hose days of necessity one of.
those difficult days where no matter how much We are prepared.
like the end, there is always going to be an unknown.
Something that need to be ready to deal with.
new solutions and you bigger.
Then certainty of the future is daunting, no?
matter how hard we are prepared, it is difficult.
to deal with the noise.
Yesterday.
The College of Arts and science remembered a faculty.
member who had been at Siena whole for 20 years.
I did not have the privilege to meet Janine.
Buckner.
But seeing how she prepared her colleagues.
for a transition.
Recording a video to say goodbye.
Shows how closely connected this is Stitution.
fundamentally is.
Despite its differences, it creates communities.
They built friendships and relationships that will.
be here forever, even in the most difficult.
moments of transition.
I know that many of your colleagues were not prepared.
for an untimely departure.
How do you prepare for the future?
How do you work the ant to be ready for the days?
of necessity?
You do your best everyday.
You do your best in the classroom. You do your best in your research.
You do your best. We don't encounter an ID interaction you have.
I would like to encourage all of us to try to do our.
best to prepare for the future because.
he don't is only by working like the ant that we will be ready.
I did not know Doctor Buckner, but arrived one.
ver emails when she announced their leave and I.
was astonished because she was still giving directions.
in organizing things for a colleagues on her.
last day of work.
I remember thinking wow, she's a wonder.
Woman in the face of fear she still.
so focus on serum whole working like the ant.
To prepare for the winter.
And this is what signal is for those of.
you that are joining Today, you will need you will.
know soon what this means and for the many of you.
who have been here for a very long time, there is nothing that.
I can tell you about our community.
And critical community.
I thank you for the opportunity to serve as your provost.
I too I've been working like an ant to.
prepare for this day for this position.
And I look forward to continuing to work hard with you.
as you go through your journey as a new professor or as.
he can, you continue through your scholarly journey.
as an associate and full professor.
Or as you continue to represent, sit on, hold proudly.
as an emeritus professor.
There is another fable similar to the one that.
I read today.
It's from the Italian poet.
Trilussa car log back to Mariano's will.
lose st. He lived at the end of the 19th century.
It is expired on Aesop's Fables, but it carries.
a rather different model than the one we just heard. It's a.
little sarcastic as to loosely used.
satire in his sonnets to diffuse many difficult.
situations, and dispenser lighter moral view.
than some of our E sub scribbles.
Maybe one day we can read that fable.
together. It's called logical for Micah.
The hands in the grasshopper.
Together in its original form.
The Roman dialect.
That I proudly speak.
I know that many sooner whole will understand that dialect as I've
been surrounded by many colleagues who studied in Rome.
The Gregorian University.
And they meet me in Italian as I walked through the campus or joint.
in media teams meetings.
It's beautiful to hear and see the cultural.
diversity of our community.
I look forward to the day when we can use the green to be.
back together and maybe even read poetry.
We are prepared for our return.
And we're ready to reap the fruits of the artwork.
that we did over the summer.
Like that?
That work that will enable us to have a successful restart.
Thank you I'm bored. Come back.
Thank you for those pastorini.
I'm now pleased to introduce the 21st president.
Seton Hall. Doctor Joseph Nair.
Doctor nair is enabled US naval veteran.
and a first generation college graduate.
Who obtained 3 advanced degrees?
And completed pre an post doctoral studies.
At the University of Missouri University.
of Kansas and Harvard Medical School He.
has served as a psychology professor in a fact.
any faculty capacity.
It's several prominent universities.
He has been recognized nationally for his program of research.
For attaining a stunning $60,000,000.
in research an service grants.
Authoring vital state and national legislation.
In building a system of care in Illinois.
that serves more than 30,000 people each year.
Before coming to Seton Hall.
He served as the president of Iona College for eight years.
Doctor Nair is a student focused president.
Students come to know him because he is active in their lives.
In fact, we come to know him because he engages them.
in strategy.
Institutions he has led have excelled.
By focusing on the ethical as well as the technical.
Offering record levels of scholarships for students.
and emphasizing college affordability.
Launching numerous academic programs centers.
and institutes.
Endowing nationally recognized faculty.
Initiating international programs and partnerships.
Growing campuses and building or renovating.
campuses. Learning and living environments.
And raising necessary funds.
An avid fundraiser, his team tripled his.
last institutions endowment and raised.
the highest total in institutional history for.
student scholarships, endowed professorships and.
campus infrastructure.
But about Catholic Doctor Nair and his wife.
the former Kelly mcintyre, had four children.
Evelyn, Charlie, Henry.
and Hadley.
Please join me in welcoming the 21st president of Seton Hall.
Doctor Joseph E. Nair.
Members of the faculty in the University of large.
Good afternoon.
Thank you for joining us. I hope you are well and looking forward to.
an outstanding academic year a year that will undoubtedly.
be like no other.
It's hard to believe how much has changed since our last convocation, just.
over a year ago. You warmly welcomed my family in Maine.
to this remarkable community.
Here we found a strong institution with robust academics.
A hard working in diverse student body. A distinctive.
and Evidente Catholic identity.
A story past rich present.
And promising future.
But more than that, I found a community United by a sense of.
mission and evolving shared priorities.
Throughout its history, Seton Hall is showing remarkable resilience.
in the face of adversity and a genuine willingness.
to embrace change.
These qualities, which you model for our students every day.
Are propelling us from excellence.
To distinctive eminence among the nations leading.
universities.
Since 1856, Seton Hall is delivered its Catholic educational.
mission through wars.
Economic depressions, political and social upheaval.
and even pandemics.
Of course we are living through a period of tremendous adversity.
and seismic change right now.
In March, our community entered a period of disruption unlike any in.
the last 100 years.
Let me thank you again for your exceptional work since.
You adapted to circumstances that change daily.
often by the hour.
You went above and beyond to serve our students in ways that.
were a ninja matter unimaginable.
Even seven months ago.
Before any government guidance together we.
deployed measures to protect students.
Faculty, clergy and our employees. Our community.
Were among the 1st to cancel study abroad programs throughout the world.
regardless of location.
And in the midst of an unfortunately time spring break, we.
moved to reduce density, begins social distancing.
transition instruction to promote settings and safely.
move the vast majority of our students out of the residence halls.
And at the request of state officials, we then prepare.
it. Several of our residence halls for use by the health.
care system.
Thankfully, our heroes in healthcare persevered and.
the cap was not needed.
Why did we take these actions?
Because together we knew was the right thing to do for the health.
and safety of our community, and because time is of the essence.
Even though we knew such actions would create financial hardships.
Despite the advancing pandemic, you stayed focused you.
roll up your sleeves and you were there for our students.
and the University.
With your assistance, we establish working groups, teams and committees.
to provide advice and input in University.
decision making.
Preserving the faculty voice is vital.
to Seton Hall.
Now some will say that there's been two MIT. There's been too much input.
Other percent is not been enough input.
But I know that history will show.
That you were there when Seton Hall needed you most.
You were even there when we had to make difficult financial decisions.
You help ensure that this year's budget.
Promoted the health and being of the entire community.
You ensure that budget advanced college affordability by.
investing in enhanced funding for student scholarships and student.
grants.
You help ensure that this year's budget invests in.
academic quality.
And you help ensure that we continue to focus and re balancing.
the instructional and noninstructional expenses.
By focusing on reductions on the later.
The budget decisions were not easy and many people.
and families have been affected.
In addition to freezing major non kovid related capital.
And related expenditures. We froze travel with.
And any employee making more than $50,000.
a year was impacted.
Just for example, we had tiered salary reductions.
We have a temporary reduction in four 3B contributions.
We deployed a furlough program affecting 140.
administrators and staff members.
And we unfortunately need to layoff one in 10.
staff and administrators.
Your cooperation in keeping our community safe advising.
other difficult decisions. Delivering remote instructions.
and helping plan I'll return has been often.
selfless.
An inspiring
And you continue to be there everyday, ensuring our.
university fulfills its mission to change destinations.
and transform the lives of our students.
We in higher education, all of us were often criticized for being.
hopelessly resistant to change.
And I've shared with you before that my friend often tells Maine is.
easier to go back and change the course of history than it is to.
change the history course.
He no longer says that.
About higher Ed.
Seton Hall is among the institutions that have Latin continues.
to lead.
Thanks to strong faculty input, we were early to.
announce fall plans, the root of which have been widely.
adopted within and beyond the higher education sector.
We could not have reached this point without the tireless efforts.
of many of you on this call.
Faculty members were leaders in creating and evaluating models.
in contingency planning and ultimately in helping.
former restart plan that helped drive our return to.
campus.
Strong faculty input resulted in steadily.
evolving plans that are rooted in strategy.
and aligned with our fundamental principles and values.
So I'm grateful I'm grateful for the extraordinary preparations.
you and others have made to deliver a combination of remote.
Hi Brandon and reduced density in person instruction.
Seton Hall successful start to the year.
Will be a team effort.
And the University is grateful.
We fully realize that flexibility was built into our planning.
efforts.
We fully realize we don't know the path of the virus.
We recognize that we may need to shift to fully remote instruction.
depending on what happens with the virus in our.
part of the country.
Looking to the future, our nation is clearly.
fighting two pandemics.
And struggling to find a Cogent voice and sustained action.
Cobra 19 is illuminated. The cracks in the fishers and the fractures.
in every sector of our economy from supply.
from supply chain. The healthcare from Wall Street.
to Main Street.
All of this effects our families and our loved ones.
And higher education is no different.
Meanwhile, thousands of fellow citizens are striving.
to move our country closer to its highest ideals.
The system of oppression that predates the Republic.
Has been exposed to the sun.
Thankfully, in the words of former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Let's be clear.
Combatting two pandemics will require sustained and.
United Action.
Pandemics will likely extinguish some universities.
The panda pics coupled with internal fighting.
will likely be the end to many more.
Let us avoid both results and focus on the hardest.
tasks. Finding unity over division sustained.
action and a successful path forward.
Know there are challenges. We believe there are going to be immense.
price pressures and price elasticity issues in both.
public and private higher education.
We know that public and private universities will suffer.
due to frozen appropriations and future budget reductions.
Private institutions are likely going to struggle a little bit more.
For example New Jersey recently.
announced that it would distribute 149.
million dollars of federal stimulus funds to new.
Jersey's public universities.
And only $1,000,000 across the 14.
private institutions.
We must do better.
Seton Hall and our peers would contend with families who are evaluating.
with even greater focus. The value of private, higher education.
And we know fund raising will be increasingly difficult.
But what concerns me the most was reflected in Jonathan's remarks.
I'm deeply concerned about the sustained economic impact.
unemployment rates, family saving rates, and.
hat this means for access to higher education, particularly.
for Pell Grant recipients, lower income families.
and the steadily disappearing middle class.
So what do we do?
First, we protect and support each other.
We advanced college affordability in college access.
We continue to re balance instructional and.
non instructional expenses.
We identify and make key investments in academic quality.
and the student experience on all of our campuses.
We hold our Catholic mission and we strive.
for more just and equitable country.
We carefully examine the structure of our schools and Colleges.
We advance our financial recovery.
And we launch our long awaited fund raising campaign.
I continue to remind our team so it working so diligently.
The measure of our integrity is not how we show up on our best days.
But rather how we rally together on our most difficult ones.
I'm confident Seton Hall emerge on the other side of these dark days.
shining a bright light on the possibilities for the future.
I believe we will discover new ways to provide a powerful education.
rooted in our Catholic mission and intellectual tradition.
I also know that we will never use the pandemic as.
an excuse for lowering our expectations.
I don't have to tell you that this will be a year, no other.
Seton Hall will call on you to serve our students in.
new and vital ways.
It will be a demanding year.
When they would tease out greater excellence in all of us.
And it will be an exciting year.
Filled with the promise of achieving goals that are unique in Seton.
Hall history.
Through it all, we continue to make decisions rooted.
in faculty input and shared governance.
There is much work ahead.
Yet I know you will do your outmost. Uphold the promise of a transformative.
higher education at our university you always have.
Thank you, god bless you and God bless.
Seton Hall University.
Thank you, president Nair.
At this point in the program, we will invite.
the deans to recognize their faculty promotions.
and tenure, and also introduce our new.
faculty. Allow me now to welcome the.
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences doctor.
Peter Schumacher.
Good evening.
It is my pleasure to recognize our faculty members promotion.
to professor.
Kijou, Casey Casey Troy PH D Department of.
religion doctor Choi works in the area.
of theological ethics as the author of disciplined by race theological.
ethics and the problem of Asian American identity, this.
well received monograph focuses on the ambivalent nation nature.
of Asian racial identity in America.
where the white black dichotomy has historically defined mainstream.
understandings of race. His classes garnered rave reviews.
with students calling him allow instructor, and he has served.
the University in numerous capacities.
Including Department chair.
Tension, Tina Chu PH D Department of.
Biological Sciences.
Doctor Chu is a microbiologist with a background in genomics.
She has published dozens of articles in several areas, including.
the use of natural product such as green tea extract as.
antimicrobial agents, the study of algal blooms.
molecular probes from microbial detection, and.
the end Romeo in room it real microbiome in.
IVF. This research agenda has been supported by numerous.
grants where she's been the principle investigator as or co investigator.
She is popular with students and she is one of the founders of Seton.
Hall's class based undergraduate research program in genomics.
Beyond the walls of Seton Hall, Dr Chu is involved in the community as.
a member. As a mentor for high school students.
Our new colleagues in the College of Arts and Sciences are.
Should Gina Anand?
PH D Anna University Department of mathematics.
and computer science.
And Heather Astley, PHD.
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Department of sociology, anthropology, social work in criminal justice.
I would also like to acknowledge three America I faculty.
Doctor Jeffrey Gray, Department of English a specialist.
in American literature, doctor Gray has a distinguished record of publication.
including eight books in 30 articles.
This work includes monographs published by the University of Georgia.
and Yale University. Press is as well as commentary and highly visible publications.
such as MLA, professions and the Chronicle of higher education.
Doctor Gray's enhanced the cultural life of Seton Hall, my bringing writers.
jazz musicians, and others to campus.
Doctor Pakua Edwin Leong Department.
of languages, literatures and cultures doctor.
Young is a distinguished scholar of Asian history, politics and culture.
who is written 30 books and his articles total more than 50.
He's won numerous awards for a scholarship and leadership in Asian studies.
within an outside. The university most notably.
is the recipient of Ellis Island, Medal of Honor Prestigious.
award, whose prior recipients include Nobel Prize winners.
And lastly, doctor Thomas Marlo, Department of mathematics.
and computer science.
Doctor Marlow is a specialist in the area of applied.
Mathematics and computer science. Remarkably, he is.
authored nearly 100 refereed publications, a.
textbook, numerous conference publications.
And several successful grants. He's a Renaissance man with broad.
interests who has presented on Bernard Lonergan, his taught in the university.
core. He tells me that he is not slowing down so.
get prepared for what's next.
Next, on the virtual podium.
is my colleague Dean Joy Strauser from.
the Stillman School of Business.
Thank you Peter. I'm so proud to grab congratulate.
my colleague Pamela Adams, Associate Professor in the department.
of management, who earned tenure this year. Campbells work.
perfectly personifies our stillman mission goal of transforming.
concepts into business practice. She's an engaging.
teacher who builds real business applications into.
every class she teaches. She is published.
scholarly work in the top journals in her field, but.
she also collaborates with student entrepreneurs.
On articles that are published in more practice related journals.
bottom line, she's exactly the type of faculty member.
to whom you want to make a lifetime commitment, Pamela.
Congratulations and thank you.
I am equally proud of the new faculty members who.
will be joining our Stillman family. These are.
Javier Farfan. Javier earned his MBA from.
New York University Stern School of business and his ma.
from Columbia University. He will be joining our department.
of marketing.
Routine console and his MBA from New York.
University also from the Stern School of Business.
He joins us in the Department of Management and He.
also becomes the associate director of Stillman's.
Gerald people. She know Center for leadership development.
Daniel crevice earned his MBA from Boston College.
Dan joins us in the Department of accounting and taxation.
as the director of graduate accounting programs.
Jay Liebowitz and his doctorate in science.
from George Washington University an joins our department.
of computing and decision Sciences.
Andrew Schwartz earned his PHD.
from California, Berkeley, an joins our department.
of Finance.
And finally joining us in January is Danielle.
s ancillary. Danielle earned her doctorate.
from Clemson University. Ann will join our department.
of Economics and legal studies, but I should tell.
you that her most impressive degree won't appear on that.
slide. Danielle earned her bachelor business administration.
from the Stillman School of business, majoring.
in both economics and finance. So we look forward to welcoming.
Danielle home to the hole in January. Welcome.
On behalf of all of Seton Hall to our new colleagues and Stillman.
School of Business.
And it is now my honor.
To recognize an to the podium dean.
Deidre, Eights, the founding dean of the College of communication.
and the arts.
Thank you Dean Strawser and good afternoon.
to it is my honor to recognize.
one of the highly distinguished faculty.
from the College of communication in the arts, who has.
most deservedly been promoted to the rank of.
Professor Doctor Jonathan Kruszewski.
AKA Doctor K holes.
international recognition and acclaim in his field.
of media studies, just.
Last year I was doing a presentation.
at the University of Pulaski in the Czech Republic.
and when I finished my presentation, a gentleman.
ame running up to the podium.
I was thinking that perhaps he was kinda want to congratulate.
me on my presentation, but in actuality he was.
coming to say, do you really know doctor kruszewski?
ly work with doctor kruszewski so?
yes, I said to which he was completely.
amazed. So it was nice to know the impression that I.
made and very nice to know the impression.
that you make doctor kritchevsky, I thank.
you and congratulate you. John, thank you for all.
that you bring to our college.
On a new note, I am delighted to welcome to the college.
of communication in the arts, community of artists, and.
cholars. Our newest faculty member.
doctor mckenna Shrey, who holds her PHD.
from Seton Hall and is joining our public relations.
program. A very warm, heartfelt welcome.
And we're very fortunate to have three of our.
retired faculty who have been granted the.
honor of professor emeritus status and.
they are doctor Petra Chu from our art.
istory program.
Doctor Earl Kenneth Hoffman from our art.
design, an interactive multimedia program, and.
octor Christopher Sharat from our media and film studies program.
Congratulations to all the faculty in the College of communication.
in the arts, and now I am.
happy to introduce my colleague, Doctor Courtney Smith.
acting dean of the school of diplomacy and International.
relations. Who will introduce his faculty?
Dean Smith
Thank you, good evening everyone. It is my pleasure to.
recognize a new faculty member joining the school of diplomacy.
A David would earned his at the University College.
in London. He joins our center for and conflict.
flict studies as a grant funded professor of practice who's
doing research in the Middle East and North Africa and.
teaching in negotiation. An Peacemaking David Welcome to.
your new role. And it is.
ow my pleasure to pass the podium to doctor Maureen Gillette.
Who is the dean of the College of education and human services?
Doctor Gillette your mic is muted.
Burke told me it would be an embarrassment if he had to say that sentence.
to anyone and there it was me today on Friday.
night, after a long week at a longer one to come.
in first like to welcome doctor Jason Burns.
I were thrilled to have Jason in the Department of.
educational leadership, management and policy.
In K12 leadership. He completed his PHD.
at Michigan State University where he has been.
a postdoctoral fellow for the last two years.
Second on our list is Jennifer Casey.
Jennifer is joining Our Department of educational studies.
He had a Lyanna lust Rias 30 year.
career as a teacher in Cranford public schools.
and she will be teaching our students special add 1000.
and ton. Jennifer was named the Cranford Teacher of the year.
Next is doctor Alan Groveman, Doctor Groveman
is joining the Department of professional psychology in.
marriage and family therapy. He earned his PHD.
from the University of Missouri and he has had a.
long career in private practice and.
is a specialist in Relational Emotive therapy.
Doctor men suddenly who may be familiar to.
some of you, earned her PH. D. At the state.
University of New York at Albany. She is rejoining.
the professional psychology in marriage and family therapy.
department. She stepped away from Seton.
Hall on this campus for a little.
while to join the Hackensack University School of Madison.
And this year came back through our.
hiring process and we are thrilled to have her.
back within our ranks.
Next is doctor Hilary Morgan Hillary.
is joining the Department of educational leadership management.
an Polacy. Hillary earned her PH.
D at Seton Hall University and.
we are thrilled to have Hillary on our faculty.
Finally, Doctor Jennifer Timmer, who completed her.
PHD at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
is joining the Department of educational leadership management.
An Polacy Jennifer just completed.
a postdoctoral fellowship.
At Vanderbilt University and so.
we are really happy to have Jennifer joining us.
A huge welcome to all of our new faculty in the college.
of Education and Human Services.
Next up, I'd like to introduce my colleague, Doctor Brian.
howman, from the school of Health and medical science.
Good afternoon, thank you dingel at the school.
of Health and medical sciences is pleased to recognize 2.
o faculty who were recently promoted, our first faculty.
members doctor Michael La Fontaine, who joined Seton Hall University.
in the fall of 2011. His primary.
teaching responsibilities have been in this subject areas of.
physiology and pharmacology, his research.
focuses on the medical and clinical consequences of neurological.
injuries, an autonomic nervous system regulation.
of cardiovascular.
And Andrew current function his concussion.
research is performed at Seton Hall through an active collaboration with.
the Center for sports Medison and Department of athletics, he.
is entering the final year of an approximate 520 five $1000.
llar research grant funded through the New Jersey Commission on.
brain injury research. His spinal cord.
injury research is performed in the spinal cord injury research.
center at the Bronx VA Medical Center and through collaborations.
at the Kessler Institute for rehabilitation. These.
efforts and many others in persons with spinal cord.
Entry have been supported by more than 16.5.
million dollars of research grants. These studies.
have also served as a backdrop for research projects.
with more than 50 students from our doctor of physical therapy.
and master of Science in athletic training programs doctor.
lafontaine has published more than 50 peer reviewed publications.
and has delivered more than 70 presentations at different.
scientific conferences around the world. Congratulations.
Doctor Lafontain on your promotion to full professor.
Our second faculty member promoted as Doctor Sona Patel.
She joined the faculty in 2014.
and received her first federal grant less than six months later.
on a $380,000 project that.
examined the neural mechanisms underlying voice problems.
in Parkinson's disease. Doctor Patel also collaborates.
with Johns Hopkins University on a multi million.
00 grant that examines the cognitive and neurological recovery.
of emotional tone of voice after stroke.
This research is the first to perform lanja tude inal investigations.
of right hemisphere stroke involving extensive brain.
imaging combined with speech recordings which allows.
one to see the extent of spontaneous recovery.
and identify the optimal points for neurological.
and speech interventions. The directions of future.
work doctor Patel continues to work collaboratively.
with our partners in neurology and geriatrics at.
Hackensack, Meridian Health and colleagues in the school of.
Health and Medical Sciences.
On the sub mission of larger federal grant applications.
In of these areas. Congratulations doctor.
Patel. On your promotion to associate professor.
And now it gives me great pleasure to welcome 4 new.
colleagues to the school of Health and medical sciences.
Amego, Tash, MS George Washington.
University joins our Department of physician assistant.
UT Lynn, also known.
as Ray PHD, Georgia Institute.
of technology, joins our Department of physical therapy.
Jerry Minako Doctor Physical Therapy Arcadia.
University, joins our Department of physical.
therapy and last but certainly not least, Tiffany.
Fury MS from Pace University.
joins our Department of physician assistant.
on behalf of all of us in the school of Health and medical sciences.
and Seton Hall University. Congratulations to.
our promoted faculty, an R4 new faculty.
Colleagues. At this point, I will turn today's.
program.
Over to my colleague, the dean of the law School, Kathleen.
boozing.
Then your mic is muted.
It's not.
I'll start over good afternoon the law.
school is proud to introduce you to two of our.
newest colleagues first coming to.
us with tenure is Richard Winchester, who.
earned his JD at Yale Law School.
And second, joining us to begin his academic.
karere is end you may, chu, who earned his JD.
at the University of Chicago Law School and now.
I turn the program over to the dean of university libraries.
doctor John Bushman, who will recognize his faculty.
Thank you, Dean. Bruising it's my pleasure.
to announce the newly promoted.
associate professor with tenure professor.
Lisa de Luca, Professor Deluca's.
ery successfully built a vigorous research program.
out of her masters in public administration from Seton Hall.
Next, the university libraries is.
very happy to welcome new faculty member.
Miss Chelsea Barrett, who comes to us with an.
MBA from Felician University. Anna more recent master.
of information in library science from Rutgers. She.
is our primary connection to the Stillman school business.
I will now turn over the podium to demarie fully from.
the College of Nursing.
Thank you John.
I would like to announce our faculty member.
who achieved faculty emeritus status.
this year that is Doctor Mary Ann Scharf.
Doctor Scharf came to the College of nursing.
in September of 1972.
an retired after 46 years of.
service in the university in May.
of 2018, Doctor Sharp was.
very early adopter of computer assisted instruction.
in the College of Nursing.
And served as the director of originally.
our skills lab in 2003.
which then became our skill and simulation.
lab until 2 hundred 2016.
In this position she was very instrumental in.
securing several grants to purchase both.
high an low fidelity simulation manage mannequins.
and we're very thankful for doctor Sharpe's contribution to our.
students and our faculty.
Ann are happy to know she's enjoying her retirement.
traveling and visiting her children and grandchildren.
in Texas. Hopefully not recently, however.
so now I would like to introduce lieutenant.
colonel Brad Henry, who will introduce.
the new faculty from the Department of military sciences.
Doctor, I mean, Lieutenant Colonel Henry.
We have 4 new a casual members here in.
the RTC RTC department first.
t is Captain Cordell Lane. He's coming to us where from?
the Georgia Tech where he just turned his Masters in engineering.
Eyes. West Pointer Engineering degree and he's.
an engineer officer so he'll be teaching our juniors and getting ready to go to.
summer camp next. We have master.
certain atom laws. He's the new senior military science instructor.
He's the senior enlisted casual member in the program.
It comes for us from Fort Bliss, Texas, where he just.
got done as a company first started and he has an associates.
Degree from Central Texas College.
Next is starting first class Carlos Padilla is in future in.
by trade comes to us from the 25th Infantry Division and white.
s currently working on his bachelors at Western Kentucky.
University and he'll be instructing are sophomores.
And then finally, captain Rocky Rodriguez earned.
his bachelors with Thomas Edison State University. He'll be.
working with our human resources assistant.
to take care of the numerous administrative tasks that we have for our.
cadets. He's also our New Jersey National Guard.
officer in liaison, so he helps us with.
tremendous amount of support in.
issues that we have with the Jersey National.
guard, which is only been highlighted with the kovid with the Kovid
Been called call to duty to support the code.
Socat. Margaritas will be helping us out with that.
We now welcome back our master ceremonies, Richard Winchester.
Welcome.
All the new faculty and congratulations to those who.
are perceived promotion and tenure and.
newly awarded emeritus faculty once.
again, I invite doctor Farina to read the citation.
for the 2020 Albert Hakim Faculty.
service award.
Thank you Richard's chair. The Faculty Senate. I am.
pleased to continue the tradition of presenting the faculty service.
medal in the name of the faculty at our annual faculty convocation.
The Senate resolution that established this award in 1998.
states this honor shall be bestowed upon a full time.
South Orange faculty member, forgiving copiously of his.
or her time. NRG and personal gifts to advance.
the status and interests of the faculty and thereby of the.
academic mission of the university. As a tribute to.
doctor Albert Hickam and through a faculty Senate resolution.
in 2008, the faculty service medal was renamed.
the Albert Hey come faculty service medal, it.
is my pleasure to announce that the 2020 Albert Hickam Faculty.
Service Medal recipient.
Is doctor Nathaniel Knight Professor from the College of arts?
and congratulations, Nathaniel.
Today we also want to honor the man for whom the faculty.
service metal is named Doctor Al Hakim ironically.
Al never received the award himself since it was created after.
he retired from the university in recognition of.
our enduring gratitude for his extraordinary service to the faculty.
However, the Faculty Senate has voted to correct this oversight.
and recognize doctor hey come with the faculty service medal while.
he could not be with us today, we hope you will join us in a round of.
applause for a man who is a model of selfless service collegiality.
and servant leadership at Seton Hall.
For 60 two years.
Thank you.
Thank you doctor Farina and congratulations to Doctor Knight and.
doctor. Hey can I would like to thank everyone who.
brought this program together is specially the.
members of the faculty convocation planning committee who.
worked tirelessly to make this program possible.
It is tradition that we conclude the faculty convocation.
by singing the alma mater.
Please enjoy the university choir conducted by.
doctor Jason tram.
Thank you and hazards it forward.
Right?
