A Memorable Year

1965 was a year of war and protests, sit-ins, and marches, a time of divisive tumult and moral reckoning. As American combat troops headed to Vietnam for…

Posse 6 Creates Scholarship

When NYC Posse 6 first arrived on campus in fall 2007, the students treated their mentor, Javad Tavakoli, like a newly minted substitute teacher. But Tavakoli…

Challenge Accepted

It was 2016, and Lafayette’s applicant pool was the largest and strongest in the College’s history. “Monica,” an applicant who wanted to study…

Realizing Dreams

If someone would have told Karen Pompanella ’88 when she was in high school that one day she’d be in a position to create a named financial aid scholarship…