5/8/2008 - On April 22, 2008, The College of Mount Saint Vincent hosted its annual Scholarship Tribute Dinner at Cipriani on 42nd Street in New York City. The gala is a significant event for the College and for the community as monies raised provide scholarship funds for students with extraordinary ability and great need, a vital investment in the future. More...

4/28/2008 - Riverdale, NY – The College of Mount Saint Vincent will honor its graduates on May 17, 2008, with its annual commencement ceremony. Commencement for the class of 2008 will take place on River Lawn in front of the Administration Building at 10:30 a.m. More...

4/16/2008 - On April 22, 2008, The College of Mount Saint Vincent will host its annual Scholarship Tribute Dinner at Cipriani on 42nd Street in New York City. The Dinner is an important event for the College and for the community as monies raised through the Dinner provide scholarship funds for strong students with great need, a wonderful investment in the future. More...

4/11/2008 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will celebrate Founders Day on its campus on Wednesday, April 16, 2008. Founders Day celebrates the Sisters of Charity, who established Mount Saint Vincent in 1847, and the models of charity from which the College draws its inspiration: Saint Vincent de Paul, Saint Louise de Marillac, and Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. The College will celebrate an historic 161 years of providing a quality education for its students. More...

4/8/2008 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent’s Environmental Club is trying to push for a greener campus. Actions and ideas such as solar panels, wind power, recycling of all waste not just bottles, eco-friendly facilities cars and healthier food are goals. While this may seem like an impossible feat many facets of the community want to bring about this change. The college is promoting Environmental Week (April 6-11th by hosting several events free for everyone on campus More...

4/2/2008 - Riverdale, NY – The Women’s Studies Program at the College of Mount Saint Vincent will host a panel discussion on women and immigration on April 7, 2008.   The forum will examine the legal and social status of immigrant women from several standpoints. Sr. Claire Regan, the Sisters of Charity Coordinator of Justice Effectiveness and Corporate Responsibility as well as Myriam Jaidi, Immigrant Rights Attorney, and Maria Muentes, Co-Founder of  Families for Freedom are three of the speakers of note.  Sr. Regan will focus on Sisters of Charity’s work in issues in immigration while Myriam Jaidi will focus on questions of gender and immigrants’ rights. More...

3/28/2008 - The nonprofit Women's Leadership Caucus will bring its seminar series, Some Leaders are Born Women, to the College of Mount Saint Vincent on April 1, 2008.  Led by Cindy Dougherty, former president of the National Benevolent Association, the series will be presented at several universities across the country this spring.  It will bring young women, with an expressed interest in the nonprofit sector, together with demonstrated leaders in the field. More...

3/26/2008 - Riverdale, NY - To combat the lack of media coverage and therefore a lack of knowledge about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the College of Mount Saint Vincent will host a program entitled “United We Stand?” giving students, faculty, and the general public a greater understanding of the effects of war on the American military and provide a personal look at the men and women who courageously served, and still serve today in war zones overseas. More...

2/29/2008 - On March 6, 2008, the College of Mount Saint Vincent will host the Community Leaders Reception, an event celebrated jointly with neighboring Manhattan College each year.  Among the many distinguished guests will be Raymond Walter Kelly, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department. More...

2/28/2008 - Kelvin Gentles, a 2005 graduate of the College of Mount Saint Vincent, will be among 19 individuals honored by the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) during the 2008 Independent Sector Alumni Hall of Distinction Awards Ceremony and Legislative Reception on Monday, March 3rd at the New York State Capitol in Albany, New York. More...

2/25/2008 - Riverdale, NY— For many students and their families, understanding the financing options available to help pay for college, and navigating the financial aid process, are almost as challenging as getting into the college of their choice.  In an effort to help, the College of Mount Saint Vincent will hold a financial aid workshop for all students and families who plan to apply for the Free Application for Student Aid or “FAFSA”, regardless of whether they are interested in attending Mount Saint Vincent.   More...

2/25/2008 - Dr. Sondra Perl, noted lecturer, author and professor of English Literature at Lehman College, will present “Inheriting the Holocaust: A Legacy of Hatred or Hope?”, a discussion and book signing on Wednesday March 5, at 7:30 pm in Smith Hall of the  Administration Building. The lecture is based upon her book, On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate.  The book and the lecture, which is part of a series, are designed to foster understanding in the struggle between the author’s weighted history as a Jew, and the Austrian students she teaches, some of whom are the descendants of Nazis.  This event is free and open to the public, and free parking is available on campus. More...

12/21/2007 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will provide use of Hayes Auditorium to charitable organization, God’s Love We Deliver on December 25, 2007. A group of volunteers will prepare approximately 2,100 meals from 9:00 to 10:00 A.M. These meals will then be personally delivered to clients, many who are living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and other chronic illnesses. These clients live in all five New York City boroughs as well as New Jersey and Hudson County.

God’s Love We Deliver is the metropolitan area’s leading not-for-profit organization dedicated to preparing and delivering approximately 3,000 nutritious, life-sustaining meals free-of-charge each weekday, to nearly 1,600 men, women and children GLWD has no waiting list for any of its services, including meals. Since its inception, the agency has prepared and delivered over 8.6 million meals. GLWD has nearly 1,800 volunteers, of whom almost 1,300 are active each month.  Our volunteers provide nearly 6,000 hours of service each month and outnumber the staff 25 to 1.

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11/12/2007 - College of Mount Saint Vincent’s Institute for Immigrant Concerns will host an Open House on November 15 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. to celebrate their new location. Students and staff will be on hand to answer questions about the program. In addition, guests will be treated to photo displays of students’ native cultures, live music and entertainment.

The Institute for Immigrant Concerns, launched in May 1997, became part of the College of Mount Saint Vincent in March 2005. The mission of the Institute is to help immigrants, refugees and asylees achieve the dual goals of social and economic independence in their new country. Toward that end, the Institute annually provides more then 500 participants with English as a second language (ESL) instruction, job preparation and placement, social services and educational counseling.

 

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10/26/2007 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent’s undergraduate and graduate Nursing programs have been awarded four grants totaling more than $2 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The grants, which represent a renewal and doubling of HRSA grants of $1 million awarded to the College in 2004, support programs that will expand the supply of qualified nurses in the New York metropolitan area and promote diversity within the nursing profession. More...

9/17/2007 - Beginning on August 26, approximately 200 students moved in to the newly opened Mastronardi Hall. Four days prior, honorees and guests gathered in Spellman Hall to celebrate the completion of the new residence hall. The unveiling of Mastronardi Hall is the latest culmination of the college’s Building Our Future capital campaign More...

5/31/2007 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent is offering three Summer Sessions of a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, at significantly discounted summer rates.  While the first session is currently underway, there is still time to register for courses offered in the second and third sessions, where spaces are available. More...

5/18/2007 - Commencement will be held rain or shine Saturday morning under the tent on River Lawn. Graduating students must assemble by 9:30am in Hayes auditorium. Families and friends of graduating students are asked to be under the tent on River Lawn for the beginning of Commencement exercises at 10:30am.
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5/1/2007 - Commencement will be held rain or shine Saturday morning under the tent on River Lawn. Graduating students must assemble by 9:30am in Hayes auditorium. Families and friends of graduating students are asked to be under the tent on River Lawn for the beginning of Commencement exercises at 10:30am.
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5/11/2007 - Yesterday President Charles L. Flynn released a statement regarding a local television news report concerning building and fire code violations on campus. As the President indicated in yesterday’s statement, the College is committed to addressing any and all problems.  More...

5/9/2007 - President Charles L. Flynn, Jr., issued the following statement today regarding a Channel 7 report of building and fire code violations at the College More...

4/21/2007 - Mount Saint Vincent will host the prestigious Highbridge Voices youth choir on Wednesday, April 25th at 7:30pm. The event will be held in the President’s Reception Room and is free and open to the public. More...

4/13/2007 - On Saturday April 21, Mount Saint Vincent will host the ECSC conference, where students in the sciences and engineering from over twenty colleges will present their research findings in platform or poster presentations as well as full-length papers. Go to the Conference home page for more information.
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3/2/2007 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent’s annual Scholarship Tribute Dinner will be held on  Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at Cipriani 42nd Street (110 East 42nd Street New York , NY 10017).  The event will honor Thomas L. Harrison, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Diversified Agency Services division of Omnicom and Maura Markus, President of Citibank North America. More...

1/3/2007 - Before graduating from high school, college bound students and their parents must learn an entirely new vocabulary—terms such as FAFSA, TAP, HESC, Stafford Subsidized, Pell and Work-Study—to help them through the financial aid process. The College of Mount Saint Vincent has designed a workshop to help area students navigate this important process. More...

1/12/2007 - Herman Badillo will visit the College of Mount Saint Vincent on Wednesday, January 31 to read from his new book One Nation, One Standard: An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups. More...

12/13/2006 - Pamela Kerrigan, Associate Professor of Chemistry has been elected Associate Director of Sigma Xi, the international honor society of science and engineering. More...

11/13/2006 - Thomas Cahill, the best-selling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews, will visit the College on Tuesday, December 12, 2006. More...

10/18/2006 - Susan Apold, NP, PhD has been awarded The Nancy J. Macintyre, PhD, FNP Nurse Practitioner of the Year Award at the Annual Convention of The Nurse Practitioner Association New York State (The NPA). This prestigious award is presented annually to a nurse practitioner in New York State who exemplifies the highest standards of the nurse practitioner profession based on rigorous criteria including clinical excellence, volunteer service, research, advancement of the profession and leadership. More...

10/20/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent honored Mary C. Segers, Class of 1961 with the Ad Laudem Dei award on Tuesday, October 17, 2006.  The Ad Laudem Dei award is presented to individuals whose business or professional lives are of national significance and illustrate that service is not only an activity but also an approach to the responsibilities of the work.
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9/12/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will host Edwin Forrest’s New York: A Bicentennial Conference on Saturday, November 4, 2006.  The event commemorates the birth of Edwin Forrest, one of America’s greatest Shakespearean actors, in 1807.  The conference will be held in the College’s Administration building beginning at 9:15 a.m.and will culminate at 4:30 p.m. More...

10/5/2006 - Congressman Eliot Engel (D-17th District) will join the previously announced panel that includes New York State Senators Jeff Klein (D-District 34) and Eric Schneiderman (D-District 31), Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (D-District 81), Congressional Candidate Jim Faulkner (R-17th District) and State Senate Candidates Stylo Sapaskis (R-District 31) and Joseph J. Savino (R-District 34) for a Meet the Candidates event on Monday, October 30, 2006 at the College of Mount Saint Vincent.    More...

8/29/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent is one the best schools in the North according to US News and World Report’s America’s Best Colleges 2007.  The College is featured in the “Universities-Master's” category along with other institutions in the North region that offer both undergraduate and master's level programs. More...

8/29/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent is one of 222 select colleges and universities in the Northeast that The Princeton Review recommends to college applicants More...

8/17/2006 - Joan M. Squires has been elected Chair of the College of Mount Saint Vincent’s Board of Trustees.  Squires is returning to the Board after a one year hiatus, having previously served as a Trustee from 1997-2005.
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8/17/2006 - Natalia Smirnova, Assistant Professor of Business and Economics at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, was among a group of educators who rang the New York Stock Exchange’s Opening Bell Tuesday, August 15, 2006. More...

7/27/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent’s education programs and curriculum have been accredited by the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) in recognition of the quality and success of the programs.  The TEAC evaluation team who visited the College unanimously supported its application for accreditation.  More...

6/12/2006 - Teresita Ramirez, PhD, has been selected to take part in the Department of Education's 2006 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program.  She will be one of 16 educators from the United States to participate in a seminar entitled History and Culture in China, to be held
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6/20/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will welcome the Class of 2010 during five, three day orientation sessions held between June 19th and July 16th. More...

5/12/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will offer undergraduate and graduate courses this summer in three different sessions.  All courses will be offered at special reduced tution rate, $750 per 3 credit undergraduate course, and $1,800 per 3 credit graduate course. More...

5/22/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent held commencement exercises for the Class of 2006 Saturday, May 20, 2006 at 10:30 a.m.  Undergraduate degrees were awarded in the liberal arts, humanities, and sciences as well as graduate degrees in nursing and education. Thomas J. Moran, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mutual of America Insurance Company delivered the Commencement Address and received an honorary doctorate of law.
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5/1/2006 - Students, faculty and staff from the College of Mount Saint Vincent and Academy of Jewish Religion took part in the Save Darfur: Rally to Stop Genocide event held on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Sunday, April 30, 2006. More...

3/14/2006 - Dr. Andrey V. Rezaev, a 2005-2006 Fulbright Scholar, will visit the College of Mount Saint Vincent on Thursday, April 27, 2006 to present a lecture examining “Colleges in USA and Russia: From Conversion of Perception to Convergence of Systems.” More...

3/13/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will hold its annual Scholarship Tribute Dinner on Thursday, April 27, 2006, at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan.  The honorees will be Robert M. Callagy, Senior Partner of Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP and Dennis J. Manning, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. More...

3/11/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will host authors Mary Higgins Clark, a Bronx native, and daughter Carol Higgins Clark on Thursday, April 6 at 7:30pm.  They will read from their most recent novels and answer questions from the audience. More...

2/15/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will host Thomas L. Harrison, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Diversified Agency Services (DAS), as the featured speaker at its annual President’s Associates Distinguished Lecture on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 More...

2/15/2006 - New York City Police Detective Steven McDonald and his wife Patty Ann McDonald will speak at the College of Mount Saint Vincent on Wednesday, March 1, 2006.  The McDonalds will lead a lecture entitled Faith and Forgiveness: A Life’s Journey. More...

1/6/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent has launched an RN to BS degree program beginning in the spring 2006 semester.  The program will allow RNs to complete their Bachelor of Science degree in nursing within two years. Classes will begin January 23, 2006. More...

1/12/2006 - Noel Fahey, the Republic of Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States will host a reception in celebration of the College of Mount Saint Vincent on Monday January 9, 2006 at the Irish Embassy in Washington D.C. More...

11/21/2005 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will host best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Frank McCourt on January 17, 2006.   Mr. McCourt will read from his read new book Teacher Man. More...

11/21/2005 - This Thanksgiving, three College of Mount Saint Vincent students are traveling to New Orleans to participate in the ongoing Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.  They will volunteer with organizations such as Catholic Charities, Habitat for Humanity, and the American Red Cross to provide assistance and comfort to those suffering from Katrina this holiday season.
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10/20/2005 - The Office of Career Development and Internships will host a Graduate School Fair on Tuesday November 15, 2005.  The event will take place in Smith Hall, located on the College's Riverdale Campus at 6301 Riverdale Avenue, between 12-2 p.m. More...

11/8/2005 - Daniel S. Shiffman, Assistant Professor of English at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, has been awarded a 2005-2006 Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at Osaka University in Osaka, Japan according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.   More...

11/8/2005 - Dr. Susan Apold, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, was honored with the American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) Leadership award, which recognizes an individual who has provided consistent and outstanding leadership to ACNP. More...

11/3/2005 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent is one of 224 select colleges and universities in the Northeast that The Princeton Review profiles in the new 2006 edition of its guide, The Best Northeastern Colleges More...

10/27/2005 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent is pleased to announce its affiliation with the Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship program.  The College is one of a select group of New York City colleges invited to participate in the program. More...

10/26/2005 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent honored Gail Vance Civille, `65 and Judge Judith Hard, `79 with the Ad Laudem Dei award at a reception held on October 18, 2005 on the College’s Riverdale campus. More...

10/20/2005 - College of Mount Saint Vincent students won the Outstanding Educational Program Award at the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference. The award recognized the College’s week-long AIDS awareness program held during the first week of last December, in conjunction with World AIDS Day. More...

10/11/2005 - Ernesto Quiñonez will visit the College of Mount Saint Vincent Wednesday November 2nd to read from his novel Chango’s Fire. More...

9/27/2005 - The Teacher Education Department is pursuing national accreditation by the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC). Click Here to make a comment about the department and professional preparation you received while at the College. If you would like, please send a copy of your comment to the Education Department: margaret.egan@mountsaintvincent.edu. More...

9/21/2005 - Alsacia Pacsi, of Yonkers, has received The Promise of Nursing for New York Regional Faculty Scholarship.  The $3,000 award is sponsored by The Foundation of the National Student Nurses’ Association, Inc.
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9/21/2005 - College of Mount Saint Vincent senior William Hallowell, of Rochester, NY, has received The Clark Foundation Fellowship, awarded to students who exhibit outstanding potential for leadership positions in community based non-profit organizations.  The three year program awards each Fellow up to $30,000 as they begin their career in the non-profit arena and pursue a Master’s degree related to the field at a New York City college or university. More...

9/16/2005 - The Emmy® Award-winning television drama series Law & Order recently filmed scenes for the September 28, 2005 episode at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. More...

9/16/2005 - Sali Berisha, Prime Minister of Albania, will visit the College of Mount Saint Vincent on Saturday, September 17. Mr. Berisha will meet with the Albanian community in Hayes Auditorium at 1:30 p.m. More...

9/8/2005 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent expresses its deepest sympathy towards all those affected by Hurricane Katrina and is actively responding to the disaster. The College will assist students from the New York metropolitan area who have been displaced from their schools in the Gulf region. More...

9/2/2005 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will host novelist Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, who will read from his latest novel, The Mad Cook of Pymatuning: A Novel, on Thursday, September 29. More...

8/25/2005 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent is one the best schools in the North according to US News and World Report’s America’s Best Colleges 2006.  The College is featured in the “Universities-Master's” category with along with other institutions in the North region that offer both undergraduate and master's level programs. More...

8/25/2005 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent has announced the election of five members to its Board of Trustees: Tim Cassidy, Edward D. Donnelly, Sister Rose Frederick Jones ’57, S.C., Thomas J. Kenny, CFA and Deryck A. Palmer.   More...

6/28/2005 - In his remarks, Dr. Flynn said, "The College of Mount Saint Vincent does work of uncommon importance exceptionally well.  This decade offers opportunities greater than the College has seen in a generation to extend and deepen the quality of what we do and, therefore, what our students can achieve.  To take full advantage of these opportunities will require a significant investment of resources. I offer you the opportunity to support the College's future—and the challenge to build it together." More...

8/4/2005 - The Verizon Foundation has awarded the College of Mount Saint Vincent a $200,000 grant to purchase computers, software, and related technology for a state-of-the-art, twenty-four hour