This year Cabrini Day starts promptly on Tuesday, Nov. 11 at 8:30 am with a mass and continues with a day filled with events focused on this years theme leadership for social change.For a second year co-chairs of the Cabrini Day planning Dr. Dawn Francis assistant professor of communication and associate professor, Dr. Stephanie Povlosky of the business administration department, have accepted the challenge of planning Cabrini Day.
Cabrini day is a day that showcases the mission of the college, with a full day of educational programming that engages faculty, staff, students and guests of campus community.
“Cabrini Day that is totally focused on the mission of the college,” Francis said. “This year’s Cabrini Day theme is leadership for social change.”
For those who may not know the mission of the college can find it on the campus website. However, the main three points of the mission which are “academic excellence, leadership development and commitment to social justice.” All of which will be displayed in each event through-out Cabrini day.
“I decided to take on leadership for Cabrini Day because I knew that I would have a great partner on it,” Francis said.
Francis and Povlosky have planned a full day of exciting events like “Heads Up Mission” tournament, Lead for Change, celebrity brunch and walk/run for social change. The entire listing of events, including start times and locations, can be found on the campus website by searching Cabrini day.
A similar schedule to last year with prizes offered to those who participate in the lead for change event.
“We allow people to vote on the top three presentations and those top three winners get money that they can give to their charity of choice,” Francis said.
The top winner receives $100, $75 and $25.
Keynote speaker will be John Ducoff, executive director of the Covenant House PA, will be offering up great conversation on his works with homeless youth.
“Ducoff is also going to be bringing with him some of those individuals who are program participants in the Covenant House program, who have experienced homelessness,” Francis said.
Why social justice issues matter because injustices affect all of us whether it is “nationally, locally and globally.” Francis says that all students at Cabrini should have a personal identity with an injustice they are most passionate about.
How to get involved:
The best ways to get involved is to go to the events. Find what social justice speaks to you and the only way to figure that out is to attend the events. Especially the lead for change event which showcases projects of students who are most informed on their particular injustice.
Dr. Francis and Dr. Povlosky worked even harder this year to get more campus community involvement. They established a marketing strategy that included a social media plan that would engage students with 15-20 purposeful tweets and hashtag CabriniDay14.
“Dr. Povlosky and I have really enjoyed leading the planning of Cabrini day,” Francis said. “Helping the entire campus community understand that they can rally behind this issue [social injustice]and they can truly lead behind social change.”
