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Student Spotlight | Taylor Walker | #VUHRDStory
IIn HR, we are always focused on people and how to make their work experiences better, whether that be employees, employers, or other HR professionals. Here at Villanova, the HRD program does the same. Our students, the people, are the backbone of our program. Coming from different backgrounds with unique experiences, they enhance and influence their journeys in the program and careers in HR. This week's student spotlight is Taylor Walker!
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Oct 13, 2025


Meet the 2025-2026 VUSHRM Board!
We're excited to officially debut our new graduate assistants and VUSHRM board for the 2025-2026 VillanovaHRD school year!
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Sep 22, 2025


Turning a Dream into a Reality: Connecting My Lacrosse Journey to HR
It started off as a dream, then it became a reality. Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve wanted to become a referee. To set the scene, I would go to my older brother’s basketball games when I was younger. At the time, I was about four or five years old, and no one my age was at the games. The technology that we live with now was not really a thing then, so I needed to entertain myself somehow. It was during this time, I saw two older gentlemen wearing striped shirts, blowing
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Jun 18, 2025


Meet the 2024-2025 VUSHRM Board!
We're excited to officially debut our new graduate assistants and VUSHRM board for the 2024-2025 VillanovaHRD school year!
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Sep 25, 2024


Villanova HRD Alum, Kelsey Fenner, Selected for Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
The Fulbright Program, an international exchange program sponsored by the US government, offers grants to study, teach and conduct research for U.S. citizens to go abroad and for non-U.S. citizens to come to the United States. There are 155 participating countries and over the past 78 years, over 325,000 individuals have been selected to be a part of this program. One of our very own Villanova HRD students was one of them. We reached out to Kelsey Fenner, the HRD student who
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Sep 12, 2024


Villanova HRD Student, Paige Matzerath, becomes CLAS CONCEPT Journal Author
CONCEPT, Villanova’s own interdisciplinary journal for graduate students, accepts submissions that are based on research that was conducted during their graduate coursework at Villanova. All submissions are reviewed by graduate student editors, faculty editors and peer reviewers, with final decisions made by the editors as to which papers will be included in the edition each year. For the 2024 edition, one of our very own HRD student's paper was selected! We reached out to Pa
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Apr 30, 2024


Student Spotlight | Aisling Maguire | #VUHRDStory
Our student spotlight of the week is Aisling Maguire, a first-year student in the MSHRD program!
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Mar 13, 2024


Student Spotlight | Diep Tran | #VUHRDStory
In HR, we are always focused on people - whether that be employees, employers, other HR professionals - and how to make their work experiences better. At Villanova, the HRD program does the same. Our students, the people, are the backbone of our program. Our students come from different backgrounds and have unique experiences, many of which enhance and influence their experience in the program and in their careers in HR. The goal of our student spotlight series is to highligh
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Feb 6, 2024


Student Spotlight | Maddie McClay | #VUHRDStory
In HR, we are always focused on people - whether that be employees, employers, other HR professionals - and how to make their work experiences better. At Villanova, the HRD program does the same. Our students, the people, are the backbone of our program. Our students come from different backgrounds and have unique experiences, many of which enhance and influence their experience in the program and in their careers in HR. The goal of our student spotlight series is to highligh
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Nov 30, 2023


Student Spotlight | Tyra Johnson | #VUHRDStory
In HR, we are always focused on people - whether that be employees, employers, other HR professionals - and how to make their work experiences better. At Villanova, the HRD program does the same. Our students, the people, are the backbone of our program. Our students come from different backgrounds and have unique experiences, many of which enhance and influence their experience in the program and in their careers in HR. The goal of our student spotlight series is to highligh
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Oct 26, 2023
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