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One of the best things about going to a college with a close-knit community is that you’re able to build contacts and connections with fellow students, faculty, staff, administrators and alumni. Siena College’s alumni network is eager to help future graduates develop skills and strategies they can use to begin their careers.

The sounds of construction will soon grace the center of the Siena campus as the college embarks on an important renovation of the Sarazen Student Union. The project will give the SSU a student-friendly facelift.

The founder of Siena’s Mentoring Program Jim Snyder died on Friday in Latham at the age of 78. Snyder’s program brought underprivileged children from the Albany area to Siena’s campus and paired them with volunteer Siena students.

Check out the photo gallery to see images captured at the Student Activities events.

Siena College moved closer to reaching its $300,000 endowment goal for the Jurist-in-Residence (JIR) Program last Friday at its 10th annual Capital Region Lawyers’ Reception at Siena Hall’s Girvin & Ferlazzo Moot Courtroom. The current endowment now stands at nearly $250,000.

Paul Murray, Ph.D. is committed to ensuring that the Civil Rights Movement isn’t relegated to only history classrooms and conversations about the past. The Siena College Professor of Sociology wants to make sure people consider the relevance of the Movement’s issues in today’s society and he’s using film to facilitate discussions about it.

Since being elected pope last March, Jorge Maria Bergoglio, now known the world over as Francis, has been making people reconsider their perceptions of the leader of the Catholic Church.

Claire Frank ’13 and Madeline Campbell ’13 took their bachelor’s degrees and the experience they gained while at Siena College across the Atlantic Ocean to teach in Spain.

Siena College Associate Professor of English, Lisa Nevarez, Ph.D., is the editor of a collection of essays on teaching the figure of the vampire, titled "The Vampire Goes to College: Essays on Teaching with the Undead" and published by McFarland Press.

Students in Siena College’s Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) joined more than 800 other college students and administrators at the New York State Capitol in Albany earlier this month to advocate for student aid.