[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 6]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 8939]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     IN HONOR OF PRESIDENT IADAROLA

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                            HON. JOE SESTAK

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, May 13, 2008

  Mr. SESTAK. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the career of Dr. 
Antoinette ``Toni'' Iadarola, president of Cabrini College in Delaware 
County in Radnor, Pennsylvania. On June 30th of this year, Dr. Iadarola 
will retire after 16 years as president of the College.
  During a tenure which comprises more than 30 percent of the College's 
50-year history, Dr. Iadarola has led Cabrini to expand academic 
offerings, construct state-of-the-art facilities, and raise its 
regional and national profile. The College's academic standing was 
enhanced, SAT scores and grade-point-averages of incoming students 
increased, and full-time undergraduate enrollment grew from 763 in 1992 
to 1,650 in 2008.
  Under her leadership, the College completed $100 million in capital 
improvements, and the endowment and reserves increased from $3 million 
to $30 million. During her tenure, Cabrini's annual operating budget 
went from $12.3 million to more than $60 million.
  With a history of preparing students for engaged citizenship, Cabrini 
was among the first institutions of higher learning nationally to 
implement community service into its core curriculum, and was the first 
in Pennsylvania to require community service of all its students. For 
the second year in a row, the College was named to the President's 
Higher Education Community Honor Roll with Distinction for General 
Community Service. In 2005, Cabrini became the first college in the 
country to sign an agreement with Catholic Relief Services to support 
the organization's global outreach program.
  As a founding member of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Consortium for 
Higher Education (SEPCHE), Dr. Iadarola helped procure more than $20 
million from private and government sources for the eight-school 
consortium.
  Dr. Iadarola serves on the U.N. Commission on Disarmament Education, 
Conflict and Peace; on the board of the Association of Independent 
Colleges and Universities; and on the board of Pennsylvania Campus 
Compact. In 2001, she was named ``One of the 30 Most Powerful People on 
the Main Line'' by Main Line Life Magazine, and in 2006, she was named 
a Woman of Distinction by the Philadelphia Business Journal and the 
National Association of Women Business Owners.
  Her extraordinary tenure as president is more than double the 
national average for private-college presidents, as measured by the 
American Council on Education.

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