{"id":50783,"date":"2025-12-03T06:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/50783\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T06:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:39:07","slug":"university-community-celebrates-giving-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/50783\/","title":{"rendered":"University Community Celebrates Giving Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Dec. 2, x members of The University of Scranton family celebrated Giving Tuesday 2025 by raising more than x for campus programs and priorities in a wonderful start to the Christmas season.<\/p>\n

“Once again, your generosity has made this year’s Giving Tuesday celebration a great success here at The University of Scranton,” said Rev. Joseph G. Marina, S.J., University president, in a “Thank You” video message to those who donated<\/a>. “Thank you for all you have done and continue to do for our beloved University.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

This year’s celebration focused upon two University causes: The Magis Fund, a new fund designed to provide current-year scholarships and financial aid to students to ensure that every Royal can access a Scranton education, and the Scranton Athletics Fund, which helps provide invaluable travel, team-building and leadership development opportunities to the nearly 600 student-athletes at the University. By the end of the event, alumni, parents and friends raised x for The Magis Fund and x for the Scranton Athletics Fund.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2024, the University reached its previous high-water Giving Tuesday participation total when more than 800 alumni, parents and friends of the University donated more than $65,000. In 2023, the University reached its record Giving Tuesday financial total when nearly 300 members of the Scranton community donated more than $115,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Dec. 2, x members of The University of Scranton family celebrated Giving Tuesday 2025 by raising more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,274],"class_list":["post-50783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}