He earned degrees at Rowan and Delaware State Universities, and started his teaching career at Rosemont College. 'This is a devastating loss to our community,' Villanova president Peter Donahue said.
Samuel W. Jay, assistant director of retention and adjunct professor at Villanova University, popular academic adviser, mentor to many, and innovative education advocate, died Tuesday, Aug. 29, of a cardiac event at Bryn Mawr Hospital.
He used jokes and pranks to break the ice in the classroom and a sincere interest in his students to keep them engaged. He came up with innovative ideas and programs regarding student recruitment and retention, and his agreeable personality made people want to work with him.: “He was truly a light throughout the room.” His mother, Nancy Jay, said: “He loved students.”
“Dr. Samuel Jay was not just a remarkable scholar but also an individual who exemplified grace and diligence in every way,” officials at Delaware State said in aHe was a leader in the student support services program at Rutgers-Camden and an adviser and academic success coach at Rowan. He became an adjunct professor in writing and an academic adviser at Rosemont in 2016.
At Rowan, he received a bachelor’s in history and Africana studies in 2014, and a master’s in higher education in 2016. He earned his doctorate at Delaware State on July 14 and was scheduled to walk across the stage for his diploma next June.
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