It’s Flashback Friday! Each Friday we will include historical facts about the college in The Dome, on Facebook and Twitter. Flashback Fridays are another part of our yearlong Sesquicentennial celebration, which culminates in 2020 when Canisius turns 150 years old.
Flashback to 1948 – The Griffins traveled to Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium to compete against John Carroll’s Blue Streaks, led by Don Shula, in the second Great Lakes Bowl on December 5, 1948.
For more information about Sesquicentennial events, please
visit www.canisius.edu/150.
To purchase Canisius College Sesquicentennial gear, click here.
Sarah Signorino, director of Mission & Identity, poses
with her husband, Jerod Sikorskyj ’04, ’13, and two daughters. They picked out
a T-shirt that they felt represented them best. Her husband picked an Elon Musk
space man shirt. Signorino chose one about immigrants. Her younger daughter picked
one with emojis on it and her eldest chose one of the college’s sesquicentennial
shirts! When Signorino asked her why she felt that represented her best, her
daughter responded, “I want to be a Griff!”
America Magazine featured an article written by President Hurley on the next steps for the Buffalo Diocese amid Bishop Malone’s resignation. Click hereto read the story.
Canisius College is pleased to announce that the John
Templeton Foundation has awarded a $1.8 million dollar grant to the Institute
for the Global Study of Religion (IGSOR). The grant will be used to
conduct the first comprehensive, comparative and empirical study of
megachurches in the global south.
The study, titled Modernization, Mega Churches and the Urban
Face of Christianity in the Global South, will be conducted over the next three
years and focus on 17 megachurches, each with congregations of more than 15,000
in 10 different countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Brazil, El Salvador,
Guatemala, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and South Korea. Researchers
will examine why and how these churches have become so large; how they
differentiate themselves organizationally, theologically and spiritually; and
how these megachurches shape and are shaped by the world.
“In seeking the answers to these questions, we will pay
particular attention to the larger themes of modernization, Christianization
and secularization,” explains Project Director Timothy H. Wadkins, PhD.
Wadkins is a professor of religious studies and theology at
Canisius, where he specializes in modern Christianity in the southern
hemisphere. He is also director of the Canisius Institute for the Global
Study of Religion where the project will be housed.
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learn more about the grant and how it will be used.
The Canisius College accounting program maintained its
stronghold in New York State following results from the 2018 Certified Public
Accounting (CPA) exam.
Alumni of Canisius’ undergraduate accounting program, who sat for the CPA exam for the first time within one year of graduation, earned the highest overall pass rate on the exam in New York State, ranking first (1st) overall.Canisius candidates also ranked first (1st)in New York State on the regulation/tax portion of the 2018 CPA exam; first (1st) on the audit portion of the exam and second (2nd) in New York State on the financial reporting section of the exam. Nationally, Canisius participants scored in the top four percent (4%), overall, among first-time test takers of the 2018 CPA exam.
The 2018 exam results are the most recent to be published by
the National Association of the State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) and
reaffirm the 2020 ranking by U.S. News & World Report, which placed Canisius’ BS in accounting program among the
top six percent (6%) nationally.
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read more about the latest rankings.
