Recently, the College welcomed prospective students and their families at the first of three Accepted Student Days to be held in the coming months. It was a wonderful opportunity for them to see what it means when we say Saint Rose is HOME, as the word is not just a tagline on the banners that dot the campus.
 
Home, in our sense, is not defined as four walls and a roof. It is a place where students find acceptance for who they are as well as a community of people who will help them to grow and become the very best version of themselves. We are a community – that for 100 years – has encouraged excellence in all academic pursuits, along with personal development, service to others, and a desire to meet the needs of the times.
 
Students say Saint Rose feels like home because they, like all of us, yearn for a source of comfort, support, and encouragement in their lives, and we are proud to say that we have played that role for tens of thousands of students since 1920. When alums return to our campus, we hope that they feel at home again because of the pride we show in all that they have accomplished since they graduated, and how they have served the “dear neighbor” in their own communities.
 
Thank you for being part of our HOME!
 
Best wishes,
 
Carolyn

For the second time, The College of Saint Rose has received a grant for more than $1 million from The Pussycat Foundation to support the BOLD Women’s Leadership Network at Saint Rose.
 
The $1.2 million grant is intended to empower a select group of young women leaders, known as BOLD Scholars, to address important issues in their communities. The Pussycat Foundation was founded by Helen Gurley Brown, best known for reinventing Cosmopolitan magazine, and was named after Brown’s favored term of endearment.
 
The BOLD Women’s Leadership Network operates at six colleges and universities throughout the United States, including Saint Rose. Among other needs, the funding helps underwrite BOLD Scholars’ college costs, enabling them to focus on their education, leadership development, and career launch. Currently, 14 juniors and seniors at Saint Rose serve as BOLD Scholars.

Read more about the $1.2 million grant.

Dr. Kristi Fragnoli G’92, an education professor at The College of Saint Rose, is serving as the first chair of the New York Council for History Education, which was created last year and will bring together a team of educators from nine New York State regions. NYCHE will create networks of educators, historians, and cultural organizations and provide locally-focused professional development and outreach activities.

Fragnoli teaches within the undergraduate- and graduate-level programs at Saint Rose, including adolescent, childhood, and special education certification programs.

Recently, Fragnoli was selected as the 2019-2020 recipient of the Dr. Benita Jorasky Outstanding College Educator Memorial Award, presented by the New York State Council for the Social Studies.

Read more about Fragnoli’s work.

We are sad to share that Sister Joan Geannelis, CSJ (Sister Joseph Paul), who served Saint Rose for 27 years in various capacities, passed away on February 1 at St. Joseph’s Provincial House in Latham. She was 94.
 
During her 27 years at the College, she worked as director of development, dean of students, account clerk, business office manager, administrative assistant to the financial aid director, and acquisitions and accounts assistant. She had been a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet for the past 71 years. In addition to her time at Saint Rose, she served the Sisters of St. Joseph as director of development, driver and coordinator of transportation, and staff member in the Communications Office.
 
Geannelis earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Saint Rose, and a master’s degree in student personnel from Indiana University in Bloomington.
 
The obituary published by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet described her as a “dedicated, prayerful woman who liked to balance her contemplative side with an optimal round of golf and a hearty, guilt-inducing meal. … From wherever her gifts came, Sister Joan was an engaging, delightful, faith-filled woman, and she will be dearly missed.”

Read Geannelis’ memorial story on the CSJ Albany website.