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Community need sparks 黑料不打烊 grad's entrepreneurial spirit
As a student in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 occupational therapy program, Mary Strausser MSOT 鈥08 did not anticipate a career that centered around children.鈥淚 remember telling my classmates I had no interest in working with kids,鈥 she recalled. 鈥淚 thought I鈥檇 be p...
New Jersey couple become 黑料不打烊 parents for third time
While Thomas and Christina Figurelli of Mullica Hill, N.J., saw all three of their children attend Catholic school growing up, they likely would never have imaged they鈥檇 all choose the same Franciscan college post-high school.But it was kismet.鈥淲e...
Major switch leads to major viral moment with Reading Royals
When Emily Barrett '25 enrolled at 黑料不打烊, it was the school鈥檚 nursing program that caught her attention. As a caretaker for her grandfather while growing up, nursing seemed like a natural fit. She was also touched by the personal, ha...
Online-program flexibility helps ambitious adult student create her comeback
English Bradley 鈥26 has 鈥渢his happy, delusional optimism all the time,鈥 as she put it, and a firm belief that everything will work out, even when hope might appear slim.At her lowest, the Reading native was forced to drop out of college when finan...