Looking to the Future with Villanova's Strategic Plan

Above: Presidential Scholar Chad Sutherland ’10 VSB wanted a Catholic school where he would have the opportunity to make an impact. “At Villanova,
students are empowered to pursue what they are passionate about.” Below: A member of PEERS, the College of Engineering’s student-to-student mentoring
program, Minnesotan Emily Smith ’12 M.E. (center) helps freshmen with their studies. “Villanova expects me to go above and beyond in everything I do.”
Presidential Scholar Chad Sutherland
’10, who is enrolled in the VSB Business
Honors Program, has capitalized on these
opportunities. He has interned in three
different cities and studied at Oxford for a
semester. “Being in a new culture and a
different educational environment was
the most incredible experience of my life,”
says Chad, a native of Dearborn, Mich.
These activities have paid off, as he has
received numerous job offers. He has
accepted a position as an investment
analyst in New Jersey.
An externship in the pediatric oncology
ward of Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center’s Manhattan campus is
taking College of Nursing student Courtney
Elms ’11 back to her home state. A
resident of Pleasantville, N.Y., Courtney
says that the externship “is the biggest
thing that has happened to me since
coming to Villanova” and will give her
invaluable job training. When she first
researched possible externships, Courtney
was not surprised to discover that “every
hospital I looked at was interested in
Villanova nurses.”
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