Op-Ed: Student Success Takes Presence
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President John J. Petillo’s op-ed offers ideas on how to build an inclusive campus culture. Petillo explains that building a culture of “one of us” is a difficult, but important task.
"My office on campus overlooks the Chapel of Holy Spirit, whose presence graces the central quadrangle. On one of my hardest days as president of Sacred Heart University, at a vigil and service within, I mourned a recent student death with students, faculty and staff.
The young woman had been killed in a car accident.
One student at the chapel that evening shared that he had not known the young victim.
'Then why are you at her service?' I asked.
'She was one of us,' he replied.