Our Stories

They are ready. They are prepared. They are serious. They are graduates of Upward Bound, a program housed on the Le Moyne campus that prepares students local high school students for success in college and well beyond.

As a teacher on the Heights, Gordon Boudreau, Ph.D., taught his students that writing is central to social, cultural and political life - that if they could learn to think and write, they could do anything. This fall the College announced the establishment of a fund in Boudreau's name that will enrich his legacy by supporting monetary prizes for outstanding writing by first-year students and financial awards to aid faculty members in pursuit of scholarly work.

Rosangel Garcia graduated in 2019, majoring in Information Systems & Software Application and System Development.

Ethan Sellevold graduates in May of 2020 with a major in Information Systems, this is after having been on the Heights for only three years.

Sometimes Dolphins swim in different directions, but they always find their way back to one another. The members of the Class of 1969 certainly know this to be true. They recently came back to Le Moyne to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their graduation from the Heights, to celebrate the accomplishments of the Class of 2019, and to give back to a place that means so much to them.

Le Moyne Emergency Medical Services is a New York State Recognized Basic Life Support (BLS) First Response Agency run by student volunteers. Le Moyne EMS has been operating since January of 2019, and we have run just shy of 100 calls. Of those calls, only 29% of them required outside agencies to arrive and transport. The majority of our call volume is handled by our EMTs and attendants, who are state-certified and well equipped to assess and treat patients.

As a girl in Nepal, Nabina Bhattarai ’20 witnessed how devastating it can be when individuals don’t have access to quality, affordable health care. She also knew that shouldn’t be the case. That belief followed her when she moved to the United States in 2010. By the time she arrived on the Le Moyne campus in the fall of 2016, she was certain that she wanted to dedicate her professional life to caring for others, but she wasn’t sure how – until she discovered Manresa.