"Irish Education 100" Honors Three Seton Hall University Educational Leaders

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - As Seton Hall University celebrates St. Patrick's Day, the University wants to recognize the achievements of three members of the Seton Hall University community who were recently inducted into the "Irish Education 100" honor roll. This national list is published annually by the Irish Voice honoring prominent leaders in American education, especially at the university level, who are of Irish descent.

Honorees from Seton Hall University include Monsignor Joseph R. Reilly, S.T.L, Ph.D., Rector and Dean of the Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology; Alan B. Delozier, D.Litt., University Archivist and Associate Professor, Catholic Studies, University Libraries; and John H. Shannon, M.B.A., J.D., Associate Professor, Legal Studies, Stillman School of Business.

Monsignor Reilly, a Southange resident and Mountainside native, was appointed a missionary of mercy, commissioned formally by Pope Francis at Saint Peter’s Basilica on Ash Wednesday. He served as Mass co-celebrant when the Holy Father, Pope Francis celebrated Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and canonized Blessed Junipero Serra during the historic visit to the United States this Fall. In 2002, he was appointed Rector/Dean of the College Seminary of the Immaculate Conception Seminary at St. Andrew’s Hall. He was appointed Rector/Dean of Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology in 2012. He has served as a member of the Archdiocesan Priest Personnel Board; the Presbyteral Council; the Advisory Committee on Continuing Education and Ongoing Formation of Priests; the Archdiocesan Vocations Board; and the Board of Trustees of Seton Hall University.

Delozier, of Springfield, is involved with a wide range of duties impacting upon the maintenance and development of the Monsignor William Noé Field Archives & Special Collections Center, including facilitating research projects in such areas as University History, Irish and Irish-American Culture, Catholic New Jersey, local history, United Nationals, and the American Civil War. He is the executive director of the New Jersey Catholic Historical [Records] Commission, New Jersey State Historian for the Ancient Order of Hiberians, Vice President of South Orange Historical Society, Collection Development Committee Member and Mentor for the Catholic Research Resources Alliance and has held leadership positions including chair of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference.

Shannon, of Berkeley Heights, is the recipient of Seton Hall’s Bernard J. McQuaid Medal for Distinguished University Service and the Albert Hakim Faculty Service Award. Recognized for incorporating information technology to enrich learning environments, his teaching portfolio includes legal environment, law and entrepreneurship, global business, corporate social responsibility and corporate governance. His research includes the intersection of law, business and technology, information privacy, corporate social responsibility and regulation of business. He is co-author of The Legal Environment of Business: A Managerial and Regulatory Perspective. Previously, he served as Vice President of University Affairs and Dean of the Stillman School of Business. His memberships include Beta Gamma Sigma, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, and Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in West Orange.

An induction ceremony took place in New York at the residence of Irish Consul General to New York on December 9, 2015.

ABOUT SETON HALL UNIVERSITY

One of the country’s leading Catholic universities, Seton Hall University has been developing students in mind, heart and spirit since 1856. Home to nearly 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students and offering more than 90 rigorous majors, Seton Hall’s academic excellence has been singled out for distinction by The Princeton Review, U.S. News & World Report and Bloomberg Businessweek.

Seton Hall, which embraces students of all religions, prepares its graduates to be exemplary servant leaders and global citizens. In recent years, the University has achieved extraordinary success. Since 2009, the University has seen record-breaking undergraduate enrollment growth in addition to an impressive 95-point increase in the average SAT scores of incoming freshmen. In the past decade, Seton Hall students and alumni have been awarded nearly 20 Fulbright Scholarships as well as other prestigious academic honors including a Rhodes Scholar. In the past five years, the University has invested more than $134 million in new campus buildings and renovations. And in 2015, Seton Hall announced plans for a new School of Medicine as well as launched a new College of Communication and the Arts.

A founding member of the new Big East Conference, the Seton Hall Pirates field 14 NCAA Division I varsity sports teams. The University’s beautiful main campus is located in suburban South Orange, New Jersey, and is only 14 miles from New York City – offering its students a wealth of employment, internship, cultural and entertainment opportunities. The University’s nationally recognized School of Law is prominently located in downtown Newark. For more information, visit www.shu.edu.