A Message from the Dean

This has been an exhilarating year for the Pennoni Honors College as students returned to us with new zest and enthusiasm. Our COVID years have helped us deepen our mission, gain new skills, and learn how to cope better with the unexpected.

You, our Custom-Designed Major students, have been at the forefront of this process. You spent a good piece of your college years under the cloud of the pandemic, but you are also a group uniquely capable of handling this kind of adversity — of thinking across difference and embracing the unexpected and unconventional. You know that everything can be grist for a creative outcome if you apply your imagination and your will.

We think of you as forerunners of what education will look like in the future: more tailored to the individual but also more expansive and flexible.

We look forward to watching you navigate this strange, complicated, surprising world we live in. You have the tools to do this successfully but also the resilience to deal with disappointment and recalibration, if this is necessary.

Please don’t forget who nurtured and believed in you. As you start the next lap of your journey, be sure to join us for the Custom-Designed Major Commencement ceremony. Your CSDN team and the whole Pennoni Honors College wish you the best on the next lap of your journey.

Sincerely,

Paula Marantz Cohen
Dean, Pennoni Honors College