Individuals of the Student Alumni Association with Rep. Albio Sires (D-NJ eight). Pirates from across us amassed in Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, June 12, for Hall on the Hill, Seton Hall’s annual social and networking event in Washington, D.C.
Seton Hall alums, administrators, modern-day college students, and friends of the University joined participants of Congress, such as this yr’s host Rep. Donald Payne, Rep. Albio Sires, and congressional staff at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill.
This yr’s Hall at the Hill focused on the Diplomacy Internship Scholarship, the Black Men of Standard student company, and the University’s Gen 1 application for first-era university college students.
“Hall at the Hill features and highlights packages and offerings at Seton Hall for modern-day and potential college students as well as contributors of Congress and Pirates within the Greater Washington, D.C. Place and beyond,” stated Fahim Abedrabbo, M.P.A ’12, accomplice director of Government Relations. “The alumni club in Washington, D.C. It is certainly one of Seton Hall’s biggest and most lively; Hall on the Hill introduces present-day college students to the D.C. Pirate community and the possibilities our nation’s capital has to provide.”
Abigail Cormier ’19 spoke to attendees approximately the Diplomacy Internship Scholarship. Cormier spent the fall semester of 2018 interning at the Washington, D.C. Workplace of Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization, as a part of Seton Hall’s semester in Washington program supplied together with the United Nations Foundation.
Cormier informed attendees approximately the value of her semester in Washington, including professional connections, valuable mentoring, and what she believes can be lifelong connections with other interns.
“This internship revel in gave me an insider attitude, running in federal regulation enforcement. In reality, this enjoys led me to convert my profession direction,” Cormier stated. “I loved aspects of the activity, but while in D.C. I had the privilege of seeing many different career paths properly. I suppose this is one of the maximum precious components of a full-time internship experience: the risk of looking at something that you are interested in actual existence.”
Cormier thanked attendees for their assistance with the scholarship fund, which “made the D.C. Application greater low-priced,” and advocated for Pirates to hold their aid.
Black Men of Standard’s undertaking is to raise the standard of educational effects, performance, and achievement for its contributors by using fostering strong relationships among its participants and the University, selling excessive academic attainment, growing retention fees of male college students of shade, and assisting the well-timed finishing touch of a Seton Hall degree. Members of the Black Men of Standard met with Rep. Donald Payne to speak about Seton Hall’s Upward Bound Program, leaders from Howard University, and Seton Hall directors to discuss methods to collaborate on expanding problems and officials from the White House to discuss various tasks.
Hall at the Hill attendees had been able to examine the memories of students in the Gen 1 software, the project of which is to make certain that first–technology students at the University have a clear feeling of belonging and an understanding of the abilties they want to perform university stage work. The Gen 1 program also offers college students’ mothers and fathers sources to guide them throughout their pupil’s first 12 months of studies.
Cormier, who plans to wait for graduate college in economics, said, “Events like Hall on the Hill and the semester in Washington provide Seton Hall college students the pleasant of each world. The South Orange campus offers us access to everything New York City has to provide, and the D.C. Semester puts college students at the center of politics, coverage, and power.”