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What Does Gen Z Want From Employers?

What Does Gen Z Want From Employers?

Laura Medina, Impact Staff March 2, 2023

Gen Z does not want the B.S.! They are not playing! They are in the transparency era.  They know the value of their work and they are aware that inflation is hitting the cost of living hard. College...

Mercy College Transitions To University

Mercy ‘College’ Transitions To ‘University’

Alyssa Politi, Impact Staff March 2, 2023

Instead of giving it "that old College try," incoming Mercy College students can now say they are going "off to University." Mercy College has been in the process of becoming Mercy University, according...

Child Abuse Workshop Pleads Those To Act

Child Abuse Workshop Pleads Those To Act

Edwin Gonzalez, Impact Staff Writer February 26, 2023

“If there is nothing you can walk away from this conversation, it is a very difficult position to make those hotline calls. You have no control over the help that comes. You have no control over what...

School Violence Prevention Workshop: What Youth Observe, They Could Emulate

School Violence Prevention Workshop: What Youth Observe, They Could Emulate

Edwin Gonzalez, Impact Staff February 26, 2023

  "How are we going to stop this? I don't even want to call it a trend. Not just mass shootings, other acts of school violence." Imagine these words carried by wisdom and emotion. The speaker's...

LIFT: A Ballet Story

LIFT: A Ballet Story

Diannah Plaisir, Manging Editor February 26, 2023

If her eyes are to be believed, Tiffany Cordero was about to see her life’s work shown across the Tribeca Film Festival for thousands of people. This rapid, heart-pumping minute can be traced back...

Professor Removed Due to Past Misconduct Allegations

Professor Removed Due to Past Misconduct Allegations

Alyssa Politi, Impact Staff February 23, 2023

Due to student concerns arising from his past teaching accusations, a Mercy adjunct has left and is no longer employed at Mercy College. Prof. Thomas Sangiorgi was a chemistry professor who used to...

Study Says Students Withdraw From Classes Cited Towards Mental Health

Laura Medina, Impact Staff February 22, 2023

Students were being torn apart. Every semester just seems to get rougher, more complex, and more draining each time. It seems like they cannot handle all the lectures, assignments, and tests. Not only...

Wilson Jumps at NIL Opportunities

Wilson Jumps at NIL Opportunities

Zack Higgins, Impact Staff February 16, 2023

Mercy College student and basketball player Brandon Wilson has quickly established himself within the NCAA’s new NIL guidelines. The NCAA ruled in the summer of 2021 that collegiate athletes in all...

Police Accountability: A Few Bad Apples or Endemic Violence?

Police Accountability: A Few Bad Apples or Endemic Violence?

Maleek Munroe, Senior Editor February 16, 2023

Prof. Carol Bennett-Speight has seen it all before and argues that the debate surrounding police accountability is nothing new. "What makes it different now is that we have massive media coverage of...

Professors Create Fundraiser To Plant Tree For Prof. Trent

Professors Create Fundraiser To Plant Tree For Prof. Trent

Nate Singleton, Impact Staff February 16, 2023

Prof. Paul Trent, a staple of the Mercy College community, passed away last year. His friends and colleagues at Mercy not only want to remember him but want to memorialize him with a tree planted in his...

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