The media relations team serves as the primary contact for all media inquiries for the Philadelphia and Newtown campus locations. The team collects and shares Holy Family University news with the press and gathers information about the University community.
The press is encouraged to contact the media relations team to interview faculty experts in a variety of fields.
For general media inquiries, please contact communications@gxitma.net.
For Athletics media inquiries, please contact Zachary Durham, sports information director, at 267-341-3482 or zdurham@gxitma.net.
Holy Family University continued the world’s oldest tradition of standing against sexual violence on college campuses when it hosted Take Back the Night (TBTN), a free event on April 25. The TBTN movement dates back to the 1970s when Florida State University first organized a march to bring awareness to the issue.
Nearly a dozen Holy Family University students, enrolled in the Honor’s Program, along with the program’s director Dr. Mary Carroll Johansen, travelled by train to New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 20. The students spent the day exploring the museum’s vast collection of art from around the work and across the millennia.
Legendary Brazilian professional footballer Pelé characterized the game he loved best as joga bonito, translated from Portuguese, “the beautiful game.”
The 3,4 and 5-year-old students in Massa-Bu Tulay’s Lower Southampton Early Childhood Learning Center Head Start class - the federally-funded program that provides education, health and social service to low-income families - have hit the teacher lottery.
Holy Family University students in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Association (SBSA) hosted their annual Out of the Darkness Suicide Prevention Walk on April 20. Members of the Holy Family University community turned out in support of the event to raise awareness and funds to bolster suicide awareness.
Holy Family University’s newest issue of Folio, the student-run literary magazine, is now live. The annual publication appears each April in conjunction with National Poetry Month.
Holy Family University School of Education professor Dr. Helen Hoffner has been fielding a number of media requests following the February release of her newest book Catholicism Everywhere: From Hail Mary Passes to Cappuccinos – How the Catholic Faith is Infused in Culture. Discussions with Dr. Hoffner on the publication have been featured through a dozen radio interviews to date. The book also was profiled in an April 16 blog post by Dr. Jeff Mirus on the website catholicculture.org.
The success of South Philadelphia’s Fanny Jackson Coppin Elementary School Principal Kelly Espinosa, an educational leadership doctoral student at Holy Family University, was recently featured in an article in the Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders. Coppin students’ data points, garnered over the last five years of Pennsylvania System of State Assessment (PSSA) testing, showed a math increase of 37.6% and English language arts benchmark improvements of 23.7%, with a reduction in the number of students scoring as Below Basic Proficient in math by 16.1% - more than any other school in the School District of Philadelphia.
Holy Family University Director of Athletics Tim Hamill and the members of the selection committee proudly welcomed the University’s fifth induction class into the Holy Family Athletic Hall of Fame during a ceremony hosted at the Buck Hotel on April 12, 2024.
It is understandable why Dr. Robert Ficociello recently tasked his English 241 students with curating a display in the Holy Family University library, following a recent lesson on the literature and culture of New Orleans. Ficociello began a love affair with the Big Easy after earning his Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of New Orleans.
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