News, Publications & Research

Mark Phillips: a season of essays, reviews and reflections

Sep 24, 2025 | Mark Phillips, retired tutor and teacher with the SBU Higher Education Opportunity Program, had three essays and a book review published this spring and summer.

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Hope and opportunity bring student speaker to Commencement podium

May 12, 2025 | Hope — and a door to opportunity held open — brought Anas Alami to St. Bonaventure University four years ago. Today, this once-shy Brooklyn native who navigated the foster care system has been selected as the student speaker for SBU’s 165th Commencement Exercises on May 18.

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Essays by SBU's Phillips to be published; memoir to return in hardcover

May 01, 2025 | Essays by Mark Phillips, retired teacher and tutor with the SBU Higher Education Opportunity Program, are forthcoming in the May-June issue of Adirondack Life, summer's American Scholar literary magazine, and the autumn issue of Notre Dame Magazine.

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Buttafarro and Smith present at NYSACAC Conference

Sep 07, 2023 | Tom Buttafarro, director of government & community relations, and Cindy Smith, director of the Higher Education Opportunity Program, presented at the statewide conference of the New York State Association of College Admissions Counselors (NYSACAC), hosted by St. Bonaventure in May.

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