Nothing could prepare employees and students at the school, which has closely followed Mother Cabrini’s “education of the heart” mission, for the toll an imminent closure would take.
A stained glass window with an old Cabrini University logo in the center can be seen at the George D. Widener Campus Center at Cabrini University in Radnor. The university will close its doors in June after 67 years.
But nothing could prepare employees and students at the school, which has closely followed Mother Cabrini’s “education of the heart” mission, for the emotional toll an imminent closure would take. She told him she and her fiance, a 2019 Cabrini alumnus, were getting married in Cabrini’s chapel June 1 — it would be Cabrini’s last wedding. When they made the decision, they didn’t know the school was closing, she told Doyle.
“She’s scared to death about it,” he said. “Suddenly, there is no opportunity for failure. There’s no summer school and no incompletes this spring.” Life crept in, too. A close friend of Doyle’s from elementary school died. His kids had to put their dog down.Cabrini’s small but mighty student government huddled in the lecture hall, planning a “kick-back” party for the campus.
“I was very sad, but it gave me a little drive to make this last year the best it could be,” she said. “I want people to walk away and feel like school wasn’t closing.” “There’s a million details,” she said one day in her office in the Mansion, Cabrini’s signature campus building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The college offered incentives to get employees to stay, but she encouraged those who found good opportunities to take them. And her primary focus was making sure that underclassmen would enroll elsewhere to finish. The numbers looked promising early on: Cabrini invited all undergraduates to meetings in the fall to discuss re-enrollment plans, and 93% came.“They are literally pulling kids out of class and saying ‘You need to talk to a counselor,’” Drinan said.
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