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Canisius Dedicates New Focus Group Facility

by | Jun 19, 2013 | Alumni, Faculty, Parents, Staff, Students

The Canisius community is invited to attend the dedication of the college’s new Focus Group Facility, located at the Center for Professional Development in Amherst, on Thursday, June 20 from 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

The state-of-the-art facility will be named after Jacky Knopp Jr., PhD, emeritus professor of management and marketing at Canisius College and the late Bernard L. Martin HON ’78, PhD, the first dean of the School of Business Administration, now known as the Richard J. Wehle School of Business.

Established in December 2012 by Insight Associates Inc., the Focus Group Facility serves as a resource for Canisius marketing students and faculty, as well as community professionals in need of qualitative focus group research.

To learn more about the facility, CLICK HERE.

Submitted by: Marketing and Communication

Fr. Pribek’s Final Vows

by | Jun 19, 2013 | Faculty, Staff

Father James Pribek, Associate Professor of English, will pronounce his final vows in the Society of Jesus on Friday, June 21st, at 2:30 p.m. in Christ the King Chapel. Fr. Michael Tunney, rector of the Canisius Jesuit Community, will receive the vows. All are welcome to attend the ceremony and the social that follows at Loyola Hall.

Jesuits take final vows after a period of formation that includes religious and professional training as well as several years of full-time ministry. Final professional also follows tertianship, a two-summer or nine-month program that revisits a Jesuit’s initial formation. Fr. Pribek entered the Jesuits in 1987, was ordained in 1999, and was sent to Canisius in 2004.

Submitted by: Fr. James Pribek, SJ, associate professor, English