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Putting It All Together

For WilmU’s transfer students, a degree is greater than the sum of its parts. You can’t really describe an incoming class at Wilmington University as new students. Every year, most of the newest students to arrive at WilmU aren’t new to college classrooms or coursework at all, and they’re not starting their studies from square one. In fact, for many incoming students, and for many…
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Picture This: A new graduate’s visual journey

Nadia Gross earned her Bachelor of Science in Media Design with a concentration in Photography, so she understands the power of a photo to capture a moment. In the one taken as she crossed the stage at WilmU’s May 2019 commencement ceremonies, “my jaw was dropped. I had…
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Alum's Art Becomes Mobile Message

As chair of Wilmington University’s Media Design Programs in the College of Technology, Associate Professor Susan L. Gregg often fields requests for student artwork. Such was the case when Dr. Johanna Bishop, director of Behavioral Science Programs in the College of Social…
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A Passion for Prior Learning

WilmU Prior Learning Specialist Vincenzo (Vin) Favoroso recently co-led a PLAN (Prior Learning Assessment Network) webinar titled Examining variables that impact adult student persistence. It focused mainly on how the prior learning assessment (PLA) fits into contemporary education systems and why having one as an option — in any capacity at a college or university — can  improve retention…
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Revealing the Code

MBA students introduce schoolchildren to tech basics Coderrific Academy founders Quynh Nhu Dao and Jonathan Adly If you want technology that works for you, you need to understand how that technology works. Jonathan Adly believes that tech knowledge is fast becoming as…
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A Teacher's Reflection

I’m nearing the end of what has been a wonderful, life-affirming teaching career. I don’t know what the future will hold. The mystery of it all has made me more reflective, prompting me to look back on my career and wonder how I served my students: Did I inspire them? Was I able to make a difference in their lives? Maybe I did. Once, a parent texted and thanked me for allowing her daughter…
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A Champion for International Students

Esra Surmen knows a thing or two about volunteerism — likely the reason she earned Wilmington University’s 2019 Trustees Award for Service. Originally from Turkey, she devotes many hours to her Turkish and Wilmington University communities by mentoring and teaching…