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For this Distinguished Alumni Award winner, community is life. On any given day, Jeffrey Benson Jr. plays several roles, including father, husband, businessman, student, and community leader. But what keeps his phone ringing, he says, is being a “connector of people.” “I have the gift of wanting to help people, to see people in a better position than where they’re at,” says Benson. “I…

Chelsea Botsch, an All-America softball pitcher and 2015 graduate of Wilmington University, went on to earn a degree from the West Virginia University College of Law in 2019. While at WVU, Botsch worked with the Innocence Project, an initiative to free those in U.S. prisons who have been wrongly convicted. For many years, the United States has been the world leader in incarceration. As of 2018…

Experience is education for WilmU’s Criminal Justice Institute. There’s no substitute for experience. When Dr. Raymond Carr and Scott Duffey, the assistant professors who direct Wilmington University’s Criminal Justice Institute, lead a continuing education program for law enforcement professionals, their combined 64 years in the field add the weight of authority. Their True Crime Lecture…

Eighteen strangers, traveling in three vehicles for 49 days to 22 states, 21 cites, 10 national parks (a total of 27,000 miles); four emergency room visits; endless mechanical problems—all while consuming 1,176 cups of coffee, approximately 1 million PB&Js, and just 35 home-cooked meals. Those are the essential statistics from Mallory Nolte’s summer of 2020. It all added up to an…