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\n(201) 761-6024<\/em><\/p>\nVirginia Bender serves as assistant to the president for special projects and secretary to the Board of Trustees. She has spent most of her higher education career at Â鶹´«Ã½AVPeter\u2019s University, including\u00a0<\/span>25 years in academic administration and enrollment management positions, followed by 18 years in the president\u2019s office.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Virginia spearheads the University\u2019s federal grants initiative and is the accreditation liaison officer and a frequent peer reviewer for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE).<\/span><\/p>\nShe has been active in higher education associations, presenting at Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, MSCHE and the Society for College and University Planning conferences,\u00a0and has also\u00a0<\/span>served as a trustee at Â鶹´«Ã½AVPeter\u2019s Preparatory School.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>In 2019 Virginia received the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for the U.S.-France International Education Administrators Program.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Virginia\u00a0<\/span>earned her undergraduate degree in French<\/span>\u00a0from Â鶹´«Ã½AVPeter\u2019s, master\u2019s in education from Rutgers University and Ph.D. in educational leadership from Fordham University.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virginia “Ginny” Forrester Bender, Ph.D. ’78 Assistant to the President for Special Projects Secretary to the Board of Trustees vbender@saintpeters.edu (201) 761-6024 Virginia Bender serves as assistant to the president for special projects and secretary to the Board of Trustees. She has spent most of her higher education career at Â鶹´«Ã½AVPeter\u2019s University, including\u00a025 years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-92","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions\/95"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Virginia “Ginny” Forrester Bender, Ph.D. ’78<\/h4>\n