Farewell, Iona Faculty. Welcome, Iona School.
The non-public Catholic school based mostly in 1940, definitely one among Westchester County’s biggest recognized tutorial institutions, has graduated to highschool standing, confirming the expansion of Iona’s academic selections.
“Whereas our title and standing have modified, our values and the mission have not,” Iona School President Seamus Carey acknowledged, as a result of the change was launched Tuesday morning. “We’ll proceed to make historic previous by relying on the notion and the data of our forebearers.”
The Christian Brothers, a Roman Catholic spiritual order, based mostly Iona in New Rochelle with a small school, hoping to supply a path to larger education for working class school college students. Eighty two years later, Iona has larger than 50,000 alumni across the globe.
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Iona is rising its profile in a severe methodology by collaborating with NewYork-Presbyterian to create a model new school of properly being sciences. The New York-Presbyterian Iona College of Effectively being Sciences is scheduled to open in January on the earlier campus of Concordia Faculty in Bronxville, which Iona acquired in 2021.
Iona officers remember the now-university has moreover in current occasions added academic packages inside the LaPenta College of Enterprise and the College of Arts & Science, and has expanded membership sports activities actions, performing arts and totally different actions. Iona provides a minimal of 32 graduate ranges and five-year bachelor’s/grasp’s packages.
The state Board of Regents, which models education protection, permitted the title change in April.
Based mostly on a model new definition of “school” permitted by the Regents in January, “School means a greater tutorial institution offering a wide range of registered undergraduate and graduate curricula inside the liberal arts and sciences, along with graduate packages registered in a minimal of three of the following self-discipline areas: agriculture, natural sciences, enterprise, education, engineering, efficient arts, properly being professions, humanities, bodily sciences and social sciences.”
The pandemic has been onerous on colleges and universities in some methods, nonetheless Iona based totally in New Rochelle, the distinctive epicenter of COVID-19 inside the US − has continued to extend and add school college students. Iona’s enrollment has elevated 35% in three years to simply about 4,000 undergraduate and graduate school college students, officers acknowledged.
The leap to highschool standing, indicative of a broader range of academic selections, will solely develop Iona’s profile and might most likely help with worldwide recruitment of students.
In May, Dominican Faculty in Orangeburg launched it was turning into Rockland County’s first school. Dominican adopted an equivalent path, having been based mostly in 1952 by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt as a two-year school to educate women in spiritual life to vary into educators. Dominican School New York now provides 16 graduate packages.
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