Seamus Carey, Ph.D., a national leader in higher education, who has been vocal on the relevance and importance of a liberal arts education, will become Iona College’s ninth president, beginning July 1, 2019, announced James P. Hynes, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Iona College. Carey will succeed Joseph E. Nyre, Ph.D., Iona’s first lay president, who has led the College since 2011, during a time of unprecedented growth. Hynes said that Carey was selected from a large fi

You don’t need an economics degree to know that Iona College is a big-time contributor to the regional economy. A new study by the Albany-based Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities says that Iona pumped $284.4 million to the economy in 2017, a $26 million increase from the previous year. The study also said Iona was responsible for the creation of 1,930 (930 are directly employed by the College). Iona's New Rochelle campus has undergone recent improvements that

The New York region has been abuzz since Amazon's announcement that it was siting it's highly-sought after HQ2 in Long Island City. The region is positioned to benefit from 25,000 new tech jobs, and advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), big data collection, and more. All this tech talk provides a good opportunity to re-examine business ethics, especially when it comes to data collection. In this week's Westchester County Business Journal, Lendynette Pacheo-Jorge, the