Fairfield University is aprivateJesuit university inFairfield, Connecticut. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1942. In 2023, the university had about 5,000 full-time undergraduate students and 1,200 graduate students, including full-time and part-time students. It offersbachelor's degrees,master's degrees, anddoctoral degrees through its five schools and colleges.

Fairfield University

Former name	Fairfield University of St. Robert Bellarmine (1942–1944)
Motto	Per Fidem ad Plenam Veritatem(Latin)
Motto in English	Through Faith to the Fullness of Truth
Type	Private university
Established	1942; 83 years ago (1942)
Religious affiliation	Roman Catholic (Jesuit)
Academic affiliations	AJCUACCUNEASCNAICUSpace-grant
Endowment	$471.7 million (2024)[1]
President	Mark R. Nemec
Provost	Christine Siegel[2]
Academic staff	729 total (484FTE)[3]
Students	6,298[3]
Undergraduates	4,968[3]
Postgraduates	1,321[3]
Location	Fairfield, Connecticut , U.S. 41°9′36.61″N73°15′29.04″W / 41.1601694°N 73.2580667°W /41.1601694; -73.2580667
Campus	Suburban 200 acres (81 ha)
Fight song	"Hail Stags"
Patron saint	St.Robert Bellarmine,SJ
Colors	Red & white[4]
Nickname	Stags
Sporting affiliations	NCAA Division I –MAAC NEISA
Mascot	Lucas theStag
Website	www.fairfield.edu

In 1941,James H. Dolan, Provincial for the New England Province of theSociety of Jesus, received written permission from BishopMaurice F. McAuliffe of the Hartford Archdiocese to establish a Jesuit high school and college in the southwestern area of Connecticut. Fairfield University was officially founded in 1942 when the Jesuits acquired the two contiguous estates of theBrewster Jennings and Walter Lashar families. Upon its founding, it became the 26th Jesuit college/university in the United States.^{[citation needed]}

In the same year, Dolan appointedJohn J. McEleney as the first president of the Fairfield University ofSt. Robert Bellarmine and Vicar of theFairfield College Preparatory School. In 1944, Dolan became the second president. During his tenure, the State of Connecticut chartered Fairfield University to grant degrees in 1945. In 1947, the College of Arts and Sciences admitted its first class of 303 male students. The State of Connecticut accredited the College of Arts and Sciences and the university held its first summer session of undergraduate courses in 1949.

In 1970, Fairfield became co-educational, admitting its first undergraduate class of women. In the same year, the School of Nursing, which is now part of the Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies was formed, offering four year undergraduate programs.

The 1971Supreme Court caseTilton vs. Richardson established an important legal precedent concerning theEstablishment Clause of the First Amendment and government financial assistance to religious-based colleges and universities.^[5] This landmark court case questioned the legality of Fairfield and three other Connecticut religious-based institutions securing federal construction grants under theHigher Education Facilities Act of 1963. An appeal by the plaintiffs was denied by the Supreme Court on June 28, 1971, ensuring Fairfield a significant amount of federal money which contributed to the construction of theNyselius Library (1968) and Bannow Science Center (1971).^[6]

In 1978, the School of Business, now known as theDolan School of Business, was established, as a separate and standalone school. Prior to this the Department of Business was part of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the same time, the school began offering its first graduate business degree program, a Master of Science in Financial Management.

Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J., was installed as the school's seventh president in 1979. He has been Fairfield's longest serving leader, presiding over the school for 25 years. During his tenure, the relatively young school enjoyed a period of expansive growth. This period saw the construction of dozens of new campus buildings, the addition of multiple new undergraduate and graduate degree programs, and an increase the institution's endowment from under $2 million in 1979 to $131 million by 2003.

Under Kelley, the School of Engineering was formed after the acquisition of Bridgeport Engineering Institute in August 1994, offering both undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The university was accepted as a member institution intoPhi Beta Kappa in 1995.^[7]

In 2004,Jeffrey P. von Arx, S.J. became the eighth president of the university, having served as an administrator at fellow Jesuit institutions inGeorgetown University andFordham University prior. That year von Arx launched the capital campaign, "Our Promise: The Campaign for Fairfield University," which raised a then record of $137.9 million. The capital raised resulted in the construction and renovation of seven buildings, the creation of four new academic chairs, and the significant increase in the university's endowment. In October 2006, the school opened the Aloysius P. Kelley. S.J. Center, named in honor of its longtime president. The building in the center of campus is anenvironmentally friendly welcoming center and administrative center.^[8]

After a twelve-year tenure, von Arx announced he would be leaving his position in 2016. A national search for his replacement followed, and on July 1, 2017, the school announced the appointment ofMark R. Nemec, who became the first lay president in the history of the university. Prior to Fairfield, Nemec was the Dean of the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies at theUniversity of Chicago.^[9]

Fairfield University is composed of five schools and colleges: the Fairfield University College of Arts and Sciences, theCharles F. Dolan School of Business, the School of Engineering, the Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies, and the School of Education and Human Development (formerly the Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions).^[10]

The university offers 43 majors and 19 minors for undergraduate students, as well as 41 different graduate programs. In 2016–17, the university awarded 930 bachelor's degrees, 367 master's degrees, and 36 doctoral degrees. Since 1993, 65 Fairfield students have been awardedFulbright Scholarships.^[11]

Academic and spiritual centers at the university include the Center for Faith and Public Life, the Center for Catholic Studies,^[12] the Center for Ignatian Spirituality, and the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies.^[13]

Among undergraduates, the most popular majors ranked in order of popularity are Nursing, Finance, Marketing, Accounting, Communication, Psychology, Biology, and English. The current freshman retention rate is 90%, and the four year graduation rate among the most recent graduating class was 83%.^[14]

In the fall of 2017, the faculty to student ratio was 12:1. The average class size was 22 students and 80% of classes had under 30 students in them. There were 270 full-time and 319 part-time faculty members. Of the full-time faculty, 90% had a doctorate, 3% had a terminal master's, and 7% had a master's.^[14]

• Ranked tied for 132rd overall for 2025 among "National Universities" byU.S. News & World Report, 45th for "Best Undergraduate Teaching", second for "Most Innovative", and 131st for "Best Value" in the National category.^[19]
• For 2021,Washington Monthly ranked Fairfield University 122nd among 614 Master's universities in the U.S. based on its contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service.^[20]
• Kiplinger's Personal Finance places Fairfield 41st in its 2019 ranking of the 177 best value private universities in the United States.^[21]

According toU.S. News & World Report, Fairfield is deemed a "More Selective" university.^[22] The school accepts theCommon Application for admission. In the Fall of 2010, the school moved to a "test optional" admissions policy but recommended scheduling an interview for students who do not submit standardized test scores.^[23] Approximately 90% of students receive some type of financial assistance. Fairfield has the lowest percentage ofPell Grant recipients of any college in the United States.^[24]

For fall 2019, Fairfield received 12,315 freshmen applications; 7,035 were admitted (57.1%), and 1,176 enrolled.^[25] The averageGPA of the enrolled freshmen was 3.64, while the middle 50% range of compositeSAT scores were 1220–1340, 610-670 for evidence-based reading and writing, and 600-680 for math.^[25] The middle 50% range of theACT composite score was 26–30.^[25]

The Fairfield University campus area is acensus-designated place (CDP); it first appeared as a CDP in the 2020 Census with a population of 2,884.^[26]

Fairfield University is located inFairfield,Connecticut, a coastal town alongLong Island Sound. It is less than 60 miles fromNew York City and approximately 1 hour 20 minutes away byMetro-North Railroad. As of the2010 census, the town had a population of 59,404.^[27] Fairfield is known for its historic downtown, and its beaches - Jennings and Penfield Beach - which are only a few miles from the university campus.

Fairfield's 200-acre (0.81 km²) campus consists of 35 buildings anchored by the three manor homes of the original estates: Bellarmine Hall (1921), formerly the Lashar's 'Hearthstone Hall', renamed to honorSaint Robert Bellarmine, S.J; McAuliffe Hall (1896), originally O.G. Jennings' 'Mailands', renamed for BishopMaurice F. McAuliffe, who sanctioned the creation of Fairfield University; and David J. Dolan House, Lawrence Jenning's 'Larribee', dedicated to honor the uncle ofCharles F. Dolan who made the 1989 acquisition of Dolan Campus possible.

Bellarmine Hall, the main administration building on campus, is named in honor of Saint Robert Bellarmine, S.J. Many of the classrooms and residence halls on the campus are named in honor of Jesuit priests. Behind each building name is a story of a Jesuit priest who was an exemplar of the Jesuit mission and their pursuit of educational and intellectual contributions, human rights, and social justice.^[28]

The Barone Campus Center (named in honor of university Provost and Chemistry Professor Dr. John Barone), is the home for student life including the Tully Dining Commons, the Oak Room, the Main Dining Hall, offices for FUSA, StagCard, WVOF, Residence Life, and Student Affairs.

Built in 1968, theDiMenna-Nyselius Library originally was named the Nyselius Library in honor of benefactors Gustav and Dagmar Nyselius. They were Swedish immigrants who had settled in Stamford and wanted to make a donation to Fairfield University. In 2001, the Library underwent a major renovation and expansion and was renamed the DiMenna-Nyselius Library in recognition of a donation from alumnus Joseph A. DiMenna, Jr. '80.

The campus is home toFairfield College Preparatory School (Fairfield Prep), which is a 900-student all-male preparatory high school that has been aligned with the college since its founding in 1942. It is located at the southeastern corner of the campus, near the entrance on North Benson Road.

In 2007, the university opened a $9.5 millioncombustion turbine-basedcombined heat and power plant on its campus with a capacity of 4.6 MW; the university was honored by theUnited States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a 2010Energy Star CHP Award for the project.^[29] In 2008, university president von Arx signed theAmerican College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment, a high-visibility effort to addressglobal warming by garnering institutional commitments to neutralizegreenhouse gas emissions, and to accelerate theclimate change mitigation efforts in research and education.^[30]

In 2011, a $12.5 million, 22,000-square-footcontemporary-style home for the Jesuit priests of Fairfield University (then numbering 22) was completed; the building is located near the center of campus and containssustainable elements.^[31] In August 2009, Fairfield University became the first university in the United States to installTomraUNO reverse vending machines (RVM), an all-in-one recycling machine forbottle deposits.^[32]

The goal of Jesuit education ishomines pro aliis, "men and women for others". As a result, Fairfield students are involved in manycommunity service opportunities. Fairfield was among 119 colleges in the United States named to the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement in 2008.^[34] The university was named to the 2009 and 2010 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by theLearn and Serve America Program of theCorporation for National and Community Service.^[35]

The Annual Hunger Clean Up is a one-day service-a-thon where the university community works at 40-plus local agency sites throughout Fairfield County and to raise money for local and national hunger and homelessness causes.^[36] The Fairfield chapter of Colleges Against Cancer hosts an annualAmerican Cancer SocietyRelay for Life, an overnight event designed to spread awareness of cancer prevention, treatments and cures, celebratecancer survivors and raise money forcancer research.^[37] The Adrienne Kirby Family Literacy Project, recognized as a model program by theCorporation for National and Community Service, involves about 175 Fairfield student-volunteers a year in providing individual tutoring to preschool children at the Action for Bridgeport Community Development'sEarly Learning/Head Start Program.^[38]

Internationally, 'Ignatian Solidarity Corps volunteers annually participate in two-week international service trips during their spring and winter breaks traveling toEcuador,^[39] Mexico, Jamaica,Belize andHaiti. In 2004, Mikaela Conley '06 and Aamina Awan '07 founded The Afghan Children's Project to raise awareness and funds for children who have suffered the effects of war, violence, and poverty inAfghanistan.^[40] Both were interviewed onCNN Daybreak in August 2005 for their work in funding the building of awater well for Aloudine, a small village outsideKabul.^[41] And in 2008, nine Fairfield students, inspired by 2006Nobel Peace Prize recipientMuhammad Yunus and theGrameen Bank, started Sustainable Equity for Women, amicro-lending project designed to raise and invest money in small businesses run by women indeveloping countries in conjunction withKiva Microfunds.^[42]

The Fairfield University Student Association (FUSA) is the official student association for full-time undergraduate students and is the largest student organization on campus.^[43] The association exists to represent student issues and concerns to the faculty and administration and to sponsor a multitude of student programs and activities. All full-time undergraduate students are members. The association is organized into three branches – legislative, executive, and the judiciary (FUSA Court). The legislative branch consists of the Student Senate, comprising 20 elected representatives (5 from each undergraduate class year). The executive branch is headed by the popularly elected President of FUSA, who serves as the official spokesperson for undergraduate students in addition to administering the student association on a daily basis. In 2002, Karen Donoghue '03 became the first woman elected President of FUSA.^[44] The FUSA President is assisted by a popularly elected vice president, elected class officers, and a number of other appointed officers, including the Director of Programming, the Director of the Club Operations and Student Organisations(COSO), the Director of Marketing & Public Relations, the Director of the Treasury, and the Director of Diversity and Inclusion. The judicial branch, known as the FUSA Court, facilitates elections, serves as a hearing body in appeals, as well as performing the judicial functions required for the student association.^[45]

A central tenet of a Jesuit education is the promotion of the values of peace andsocial justice.^[46] In 1988, 1989 and 1990, the Coalition for a Better World constructed "Cardboard City" and held a 36-hour vigil,^[47] and again in 2008, the Students for Social Justice constructed "Homeless Village" and hosted the "Oxfam Hunger Banquet" to raise awareness of the plight of the homeless in the United States.^[48] In 1999, students staged an 11-hour sit-in at the home of the university president and later ahunger strike to protest a contracting company used by the university that the students said was anti-union and paid janitors poorly.^[49] Each year, the Students for Social Justice travel toColumbus, Georgia for the annualSchool of the Americas Watch protest at a combat training school for Latin American soldiers now known as theWestern Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. The date of the protest marks the anniversary of the murder of six Jesuit priests, their maid, and her daughter inEl Salvador at the hands of soldiers trained at the School of the Americas.^[50] And in 2008, Fairfield for Peace NOW created "Hope Trail", a pathway of flags around campus symbolizing the cost in life and casualties from theIraq War,^[51] andA Cry For Peace, a play written and performed with Theatre Fairfield demonstrating the toll of theIraq War on the families of soldiers back in the United States.^[52]

• StagsTV – The Student Television Station of Fairfield University
• The Mirror – The Independent Student Newspaper of Fairfield University
• WVOF – The Voice of Fairfield University

Fairfield University is a member of theMetro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) and is classified asNCAA Division I for a majority of its athletic programs. It sponsors 20 varsity sports – baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's crew, men's and women's cross country, field hockey, men's and women's golf, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's soccer, softball, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis, and women's volleyball. Men's lacrosse is a member of theColonial Athletic Association and field hockey is an associate member of theNortheast Conference.

Themen's basketball team is currently coached byChris Casey. The Stags have participated inNational Invitational Tournament in1973,1974,1978,1996,2003 and2011, and theNCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in1986,1987 and1997.

In the first round of the1997 NCAA Tournament, the Stags nearly achieved a historic upset over top ranked and Final Four boundNorth Carolina, leading the Tar Heels by seven points at halftime, before ultimately losing 82–74. UNC's win was CoachDean Smith's 876th win as a Division I college coach, tying him for first all-time. That record has since been broken.

In 2010, during the first round of theCIT, the team set the national record for the largest comeback in Division I college basketball postseason history by overcoming a 27-point deficit with under 16 minutes to play to defeatGeorge Mason in overtime, 101–96.^[53]

Head coachEd Cooley was named theBen Jobe National Coach of the Year in 2010. Thirteen Stags have been either drafted or signed to play in theNBA.

Thewomen's basketball team has won the MAAC title in 1988, 1991, 1998, 2022, 2023 and regular season titles in 1990, 1991, 2000, 2022, and 2023. In 2023, they went undefeated in conference play, reached the Associated Press Top 25 and went to the NCAA Tournament. They are currently coached byCarly Thibault-DuDonis.

Themen's lacrosse team currently competes in theColonial Athletic Association (CAA). The team has previously competed in the MAAC, GWLL, and ECAC. Since 1996, the team has won 8 Conference Regular Season Titles and 2 Conference Tournament Titles. The team has been ranked nationally over the years, and earned berths to the 2003 and 2005NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournaments. 14 players have received All-American honors over the years, and 12 players have gone on to play professionally inMajor League Lacrosse (MLL).

The team plays their home games at the lacrosse-onlyRafferty Stadium and are currently coached by Andrew Baxter, who succeededAndrew Copelan in 2019.

On April 21, 2013,men's lacrosse set the school record for the defeat of the highest ranked opponent in any sport, when the Stags upset theDenver Pioneers 9–8, who were then ranked no. 1 in the United States.^[54] The previous record was set on March 13, 2010, when the Stags upset the then no. 3 nationally ranked (and eventual2010 NCAA tournament runner-up)Notre Dame Fighting Irish 10–8 while competing in the inaugural 'Beating Cancer With A Stick Classic' atThe Kinkaid School inHouston, Texas.^[55]

The women's lacrosse team has won 12 MAAC Regular Season Titles in the last decade and earned a berth to the 2009, 2015, 2018, 2021, and 2022NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship.

TheFairfield Stags men's soccer team won the 2005, 2006 and 2011 MAAC Regular Season Championship as well as the 1999, 2006, 2008 and 2011 MAAC Tournament Championship. In 2012 Fairfield goalkeeper,Michael O'Keeffe, was called up to play with the New Zealand National Team's Olympic squad. In summer 2021Matt Turner (soccer) was called up to the US Men's National Team and won the Gold Cup Golden Glove award for best Goalkeeper of the tournament.

The women's soccer team has advanced to theNCAA Women's Soccer Championship five times and has won the MAAC Championship seven times since 1993.

Sport clubs offer baseball, equestrian, men's and women's ice hockey, martial arts, men's and women's rugby, sailing, men's and women's skiing and snowboarding, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's track andmen's and women's volleyball.^[56]

TheMen's Rugby Football Club or Red Ruggers, established in 1963, is the longest continuously running sport club at Fairfield University. The Red Ruggers won the 2008MET NY Rugby Football Union Division II Title and have produced twoUSA Rugby Collegiate All-Americans.^[57] Former Red RuggersPaul Sheehy '81 competed for theUSA Eagles at the1991 Rugby World Cup andWill Brazier '05 competed for theUnited States national rugby league team at the 2004 Liberty Bell Cup.^[58]

The Equestrian Club was Regional Champions in 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, & 2003 and in 2007 seven Fairfield riders were invited to the elite Tournament of Champions, a horse show for the nation's top collegiateequestrian teams.^[59]

The Men's Hockey Club (formerly an NCAA level Division I program of the now-defunct MAAC) competed in the 2007MCHC Championship game and the 2008, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018ACHA National Tournaments.^[60]

TheMen's Volleyball Club won the 2006 and 2007 New England Collegiate Volleyball League Division II Championship and competed in the 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2008 National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) Volleyball Championships.^[61]

The Center for Arts & Minds, founded in 2024, is the University's organizational body for arts and culture on campus. It seeks to forge and maintain partnerships with various creative bodies throughout southwestern Connecticut, fostering collaboration and creativity.^[62] Arts & Minds stakeholders on campus include:

• TheRegina A. Quick Center for the Arts^[63]
• TheFairfield University Art Museum^[64]
• The Carl & Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies^[65]
• The Center for Social Impact^[66]
• The Patrick J. Waide Center for Applied Ethics^[67]
• The Center for Coastal, Climate, and Marine Studies^[68]

TheRegina A. Quick Center for the Arts is the major center of theatre and the arts at Fairfield.^[69] The center opened in 1990 and hosts events such as popular and classical music, dance, theatre, and programs for young audiences. It houses the 740-seat Kelley Theatre, the 150-seat Lawrence A. Wien Experimental (Black Box) Theatre, and the Thomas J. Walsh Jr. Art Gallery.^[70]

The center is home to the Open VISIONS Forum, which under the direction of Dr.Philip Eliasoph brings speakers to campus to participate in dialogue about topical issues.^[71]

Participants have included:Bari Weiss,Douglas Brinkley,Molly Jong-Fast,William F. Buckley Jr.,Lesley Stahl,Philippe de Montabello,Dominick Dunne,Christopher Hitchins,Liz Cheney,Salman Rushdie,Stephen SondheimAmbassador Susan Rice,Senator Cory Booker,Andrea Mitchell, andDustin Hoffman.^[72]

TheFairfield University Art Museum, opened in October 2010, is located in a 1920s Tudor mansion. The Museum features four galleries with about 2,700 square feet (250 m²) of space. Its main gallery, The Frank and Clara Meditz Gallery, is named in honor of the parents of the lead donor to the project, University Trustee John Meditz '70.^[73] It was previously known as the Bellarmine Museum.

Theatre Fairfield is the residentproduction company of theTheatre Program of the Department ofVisual &Performing Arts at the university. Theatre Fairfield's season includes professionally directed and designed productions, a Festival of student-written, directed, and designed plays, performances by On the Spot, animprov company, Director's Cut or A Class Act, which features the work of advanced directing and acting students, and independent projects created by junior and senior theatre majors.^[74] The PepsiCo Theatre, a renovated 1922carriage house, is the home to Theatre Fairfield. This theatrical facility includes a 70-seat flexibleblack box theatre, coffeehouse,dance studio,design studio and costume shop/dressing room.^[75] Veterans of Theatre Fairfield includePaul Marcarelli '92 andJanuary LaVoy '97.

• Inacademia and education, Fairfield alumni include:Rebecca Cunningham, President of the University of Minnesota,J. Kevin Dorsey, President of the Southern Illinois University;Katherine Lapp, Executive Vice President of Harvard University;David J. McCarthy Jr., Dean Emeritus of the Georgetown University Law Center;Thomas Poon, President of Loyola Marymount University;Mark Reed, President of Loyola University of Chicago;Charles E. Schaefer, psychology professor considered the "Father of Play Therapy."
• In arts and entertainment, alumni include:Pat Jordan, author ofA False Spring;Donald Preziosi, art historian and former Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University;Bob Sullivan, two time New York Times Best Seller author and founding member of MSNBC.com;Peter McCann, country/pop-rock songwriter for Whitney Houston and more.
• In business and finance, alumni include:Donatella Arpaia, New York's 50 Most Powerful Women;E. Gerald Corrigan, seventh President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York;William P. Egan, venture capitalist;John L. Flannery, Chairman & CEO of General Electric (GE);Kathleen Murphy, Fortune Magazine's 50 Most Powerful Business Women;Joseph DiMenna, hedge fund manager;Christopher McCormick, president & CEO of L.L.Bean;Jennifer Piepszak, COO of JPMorgan Chase;Ronan Ryan, central character in Michael Lewis' bookFlash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
• In law and government, alumni include:John A. Danaher III, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut;Raymond J. Dearie, Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court;Joseph P. Flynn andWilliam J. Lavery, Chief Judges of the Connecticut Appellate Court;Martin Looney, Connecticut Senate President Pro Tempore;Jorge E. Pérez-Díaz, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico;Steven Stafstrom, Connecticut Judiciary Committee Chairman.
• In medicine and science, alumni include:James Lewis Abbruzzese, Chief of the Division of Medical Oncology at the Duke Cancer Institute;Tatiana Foroud, genetic researcher and Distinguish Professor at theIndiana University School of Medicine;John T. Lis, Guggenheim Fellow and Barbara McClintock Professor of Molecular Biology & Genetics at Cornell University;Brian Monahan, Attending Physician of the United States Congress;Peter Pronovost, 2008 Time 100 World's Most Influential People and MacArthur Fellow;Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell, world-renowned elephant expert.
• Insocial justice, alumni include:G. Simon Harak, Pax Christi National Peacemaker of the Year;Paula Donovan, the founding executive director of AIDS-Free World;Joseph Moylan, founder and president of Durham Nativity School.

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  E. Gerald Corrigan
  7th President of Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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  Rebecca Cunningham
  18th President of the University of Minnesota
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  John L. Flannery
  CEO of General Electric (GE)
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  Brian Monahan
  Attending Physician of the United States Congress
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  Kathleen Murphy
  President of Fidelity Personal Investing, who has been named to theFortune 50 Most Powerful Women in Business
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  Peter Pronovost
  Chief Quality and Transformation Officer atUniversity Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, who was named to theTime 100 Most Influential People in the World list in 2008
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  Matt Turner
  USMNT
  Goalkeeper

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