Student Life

A record number of students participate in over 2,800 social, recreational, service and educational activities and events.

The Career Center is rated “Best Career Services for Students” in Kaplan publications and is recognized in Newsday and on 1010 WINS.

More than 400 employers participate in events promoting employment opportunities to more than 3,500 graduates, graduate students and alumni.

At Your Service
The division of Student Life coordinated placement of more than 2,300 students in service-learning projects, an integral part of St. John’s course work. This was an increase of 50% from 2001-2002.

Here are three success stories:

• In Professor Steven Papamarcos’ Management class on the Staten Island campus, a graduate student recently developed a business plan to rehabilitate affordable housing units in Trenton, NJ. The student has incorporated as D. Onofrio, Inc. and has purchased two units to be rehabilitated and made available as a subsidized rental.
  
  
• One Academic Service-Learning group helped found the only African-American microbrewery in Harlem. The company is based on the model of Paul Newman’s salad dressings, with a percentage of the profits going back into the community. They are going national.
  
  
• A management professor divvied his Academic Service-Learning students up into teams of six and sent them to six constituents. Their assignment: develop a better management plan for a soup kitchen. The class and professor critiqued all six proposals. The teams returned to their sites with revised plans. These implemented plans have made a remarkable impact.