For Immediate Release
Contact: Alka Gupta, Michele Forsten 718-488-1015 [email protected]
Brooklyn, NY--Psychologist Frances T.M. Mahoney, a Tarrytown resident, will speak at the commencement ceremony of Long Island University's Westchester Campus on Thursday, May 13 at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry. She played a major role in bringing the University's Westchester Graduate Program to the campus of Mercy College in 1976. And for 13 years she has helped to shepherd the two colleges through what has been, by all accounts, a happy and productive partnership.
"The arrangement benefited all involved," said Mahoney. "Students at Mercy College were able to proceed directly to graduate school on this same campus--a great convenience--and earn a master's degree from Long Island University; and the University's physical presence in Westchester has widened its student base and enhanced its reputation."
A State-of-New-York-Licensed Psychologist, Mahoney has been on the faculty of Mercy College for 37 years. During her tenure, she has served in many capacities: as president of the Faculty Association, member of the Educational Policy Committee, chairperson of both the Ad Hoc Committee for the Study of Ethics Across the Curriculum and of the President's Lecture Series. Currently, she is division chairperson of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Mercy and, for Long Island University's Westchester program, serves as associate dean for Arts and Sciences and coordinator of the School Psychology program.
Mahoney received her A.B. degree in English Language and Literature from Hunter College (CUNY), her M.A. in Psychology from Fordham University and her Ph.D. in Psychology from St. John's University. She also holds M.A. and Ed.M. degrees in Special Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She was a Wall Street Journal Fellow in Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A graduate of the Institute for Educational Management Program at Harvard University, Mahoney participated in the Institute for the Study of Ethics held at Oxford, England under the joint sponsorship of Oxford University and The Hastings Center.
Long Island University, a doctoral degree granting institution tracing its roots to 1886, is the eighth largest private university in the United States, educating more than 28,000 diverse students from the United States and abroad at its downtown Brooklyn Campus, which includes the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, the C.W. Post Campus in Brookville, Southampton College, campuses in Brentwood, Long Island and Rockland and Westchester counties, and the seven overseas academic centers of the Friends World Program. It has offered graduate programs to students who live or work in Westchester County for nearly 25 years. More than 4,000 graduates have received their degrees from the Westchester
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