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Volume CXI, Issue 9
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NEW YORK, MARCH 25, 2025
Hany Guirguis, Ph.D. Transitions to Full-Time Dean of the O’Malley School of Business Barbara Vasquez Production & Web Editor
Manhattan University Marches at NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade
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Manhattan University’s Kinesiology Department Announces New Health Science and Healthcare Administration Majors Leyla Mercado
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Manhattan University’s Department of Kinesiology has announced new majors including health science alongside the revised major of healthcare administration. These majors have been created in the pursuit of providing students with a wide range of educational choices regarding their future health profession. Since 1935, the department has had a physical
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education major, and in the 1970s, a drop of interest in the major ignited the creation of an exercise science major. Over the past few years, the department has decided to introduce the major of public health and now is adding health science and revising health administration, making it an undergraduate major beginning in fall 2025. Shawn Ladda, professor and department chairperson of kinesiology, spoke to The Quadrangle about the public health major and the gateway it’s provided into the department’s new majors. “Medical schools, as well
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Kinesiology Author Justin Torres Department Anounces Visits MU New Majors pg. 4 pg. 3
as other health professions, are looking for a variety of majors,” Ladda said. “A few years ago we started the public health major, so we’ve had that in the department for a number of years. That allows a student to pursue health professions … With the recent pandemic, I think people understand more the importance of public health and having infrastructures that support all people with a variety of health issues with the environment [and] different disparities with __________________________ CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
Hany Guirguis, Ph.D., has accepted the role as full-time dean of the O’Malley School of Business after serving as interim dean for the past year. The decision was announced by Provost Kenneth Sumner, Ph.D., in an email sent out on March 11. Since his appointment as interim dean last March, Guirguis has been hard at work improving the school of business and the overall college experience for students. “I never perceived it as an interim dean position, and the first time I met with faculty I was very clear that I was going to take the position as a permanent position,” Guirguis said. “We don’t have one year to waste waiting for someone else to come along, or for myself to start thinking about what needs to be done. So from day one, we’ve been focusing on our long-term plans.” These long-term plans largely involve increasing enrollment, which has been on the decline at Manhattan University for the past few years. However, increasing enrollment is just the end product in a long process that Guirguis has begun. “You can’t just start by saying ‘all my policies focus on enrollment’-- enrollment is the side effect of other things,” Guirguis said. “So you have to focus on quality. You have to focus on expanding your service. You have to focus on morale amongst the students
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and the faculty. You have to have your own long-term plans, and then enrollment will come and accreditation will come, but it’s just a side effect of what you are trying to achieve.” Guirguis has been associated with the university since joining the school as a professor in 2000. He’s deeply involved in the business school, currently teaching as well as acting as advisor to the MU Fed Challenge team, all alongside his current role as dean. According to Clay Pinkham, a junior finance and economics double major who has worked closely with Guirguis, he has a reputation amongst students for being extremely hardworking and caring. “To the students who are close to him, he cares very much and will drop anything he’s doing to aid whatever it is you may need from him,” Pinkham wrote in an email to The Quadrangle. “He works hard, he is intense, his classes are challenging, but it comes from a place of love for the students and their ability to succeed.” Sean Li, another junior finance and economics double major, shared similar sentiments about Guirguis. “I have a lot of respect for him and I look up to him very greatly, simply because I know what his work ethic is like,” Li said. “I see him working and I see what he does. He constantly tells us and other [Fed Challenge team] members about the many sacrifices that he’s had to make __________________________ CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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