# @quinnipiacu on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BkV43lGAVS-
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16390725-quinnipiacu-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-06-22T21:27:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Quinnipiac University (@QuinnipiacU) — https://gondola.cc/QuinnipiacU

## Caption

President John L. Lahey will retire after 31 years and 3 months of serving the Quinnipiac community on Saturday, June 30.

In that time, we have grown from a small community of Braves to an international pack of Bobcats. The small commuter college he became president of in 1987 was fighting for its very survival — a downward spiral he quickly corrected. Throughout the past 3 decades, Quinnipiac has become a national leader in academics, athletics, polling and the study of the Irish Famine.

We have grown from 2,200 students on 1 campus to more than 10,220 students on 3 campuses and throughout our World-Sized Classroom, with students studying as part of #QUinLA and in opportunities in more than two dozen countries around the world. 
He has grown our endowment from $3 million to more than $529 million, grown our full-time faculty from 130 to 420, launched 6 schools — and signed the degrees of more than 40,000 alumni!

Through it all, he has successfully written one of the most compelling stories in all of higher education.

Please join us in thanking him for his efforts in making #BobcatNation the international institution we have become — and share your memories in the comments area below.

President Lahey, you will be missed!

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