A retired United States Air Force chaplain and longtime educator, Father Thomas Maikowski serves as a parish administrator and the director of a parish preschool in the southwestern United States. Father Thomas Maikowski has also garnered eight academic degrees in various subjects from Catholic academic institutions, including a master of science in education degree from the University of Saint Francis, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
At its annual Founder’s Day celebration in August, USF announced that it experienced strong new student enrollment for the 2015-2016 school year after one of the university’s most substantial classes in decades graduated this past May. USF explains that a number of new programs helped foster a 13 percent increase in the number of incoming first-year students between 2014 and 2015.
During the Founder’s Day opening convocation and Mass, USF president Sister M. Elise Kriss, OSF, also highlighted the university’s most recent achievements and upcoming events, such as the upcoming celebrations marking the school’s 125th anniversary. Sister Elise additionally discussed the university’s Franciscan value for the new school year, “Reverence the unique dignity of each person,” while urging USF stakeholders to review Pope Francis’ recent encyclical that asks all individuals to care for the earth.
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