Mark Nemec

Ninth President of @FairfieldU

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Challenge accepted. #WeAreStags. @FairfieldStags #ModernExcellence

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@StagsSoftball @StagsTurf Thank @StagsSoftball. With a little extra help, here you go! 👍🦌🤘👊

#See10Do10Challenge #WeAreStags #StagsCompete #stagschallenge #SeparatelyTogether
Next up @CoachJayYoung @the_bax @marknemec

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Welcome to the Coach Fay era ⚾️🤘

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After 921 wins (429 as a Stag), today marks the last day in a legendary 37-year head coaching career for @Stags_Base Head Coach Bill Currier

Thank you Coach Currier for all you have done for the Stags and for @FairfieldU

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President Mark R. Nemec, PhD, joined fellow Jesuit higher education leaders at the Vatican for a meeting with Pope Leo XIV, reflecting on the mission of Jesuit Catholic higher education to inspire hope, accompany young people, and advance the common good.

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Fairfield University accepts invitation to join @CAASports beginning in 2027-28

➡️ https://t.co/VA9ICMjuQu

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📰 The Coastal Athletic Association announced on Friday that @FairfieldU has accepted an invitation to join the conference as a full member on July 1, 2027. 

For the full story: https://t.co/9KgF81CYRp

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And just like that, orientation season comes to a close. ❤️🦌

Class of 2030, we’ll see you on Move-In Day!

#FairfieldU

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Another session, another group of future Stags. ❤️

The #FairfieldU journey is just getting started.

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Happy Father’s Day!

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Class of 2030, your Fairfield journey starts now!

Orientation Session 2 was just the beginning—the start of an exciting four-year journey! 🤘🦌

#FairfieldU #Stags30

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Our favorite Stag, Lucas 🦌

#NationalMascotDay #FairfieldU

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Celebrating Flag Day 🇺🇸

A time to reflect on unity, freedom, and the stars and stripes.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"Degrowth is the ultimate luxury belief...These are people who already have high incomes, comfortable apartments, generous healthcare and pensions and whose ideas would pull up the ladder on billions of poor people." https://t.co/On3hFp90Vn

[David Galbraith @daveg]

Painfully dishonest degrowth piece. Here's a teardown.

1. The headline promises maths that isn't there.
"We've done the maths" but the piece contains no calculation. Just two borrowed statistics and a policy wishlist.
2. The 92% figure isn't a measurement, it's a definition.
"Excess" emissions means anything above an equal per-person share of the carbon budget going back to 1850. Define the rules that way and the North is guilty by construction. Pick a different baseline year or allocation rule and the number changes completely. It's a moral framework dressed up as arithmetic.
3. "Growth has become decoupled from shared prosperity" is the opposite of the global record.
Extreme poverty fell from roughly 38% of humanity in 1990 to under 9% before the pandemic, almost entirely through growth in China, India and East Asia. Not redistribution. Not aid. Growth. The claim is only half-true for median wages in some rich countries, and they quietly universalise it.
4. The headline contradicts the article's own sixth paragraph.
Headline: growth is doomed. Paragraph six: low-income countries still need growth. So growth works precisely where the poor actually live. That's not a doomed strategy, that's the most successful anti-poverty mechanism in history with a footnote.
5. The decoupling double standard.
This school insists GDP can never decouple from emissions (so growth must end), while claiming GDP has fully decoupled from wellbeing (so growth is pointless). Decoupling is impossible in one direction and total in the other, depending on which suits the argument. In reality 30-plus countries have cut emissions, including imported ones, while growing.
6. "Poverty is manufactured" is backwards.
Poverty is the default condition of our species for all of history. Wealth is what had to be manufactured. Inequality is policy-shaped, fine, but treating destitution as something governments created implies it vanishes once they stop, which no historical evidence supports.
7. "Endless expansion on a finite planet" conflates money with stuff.
GDP measures value, not tonnes. A therapy session, a software licence and a barrel of oil all count. Physical limits constrain material throughput, not value-added, and the two have been diverging for decades.
The two claims that hold up: the top 10% producing nearly half of emissions (solid Chancel/Piketty data) and the debt-servicing figure. Everything structural around them is rhetoric wearing a lab coat.
https://t.co/zEBANzOAlM

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A #FairfieldFriday shoutout to Matt Turner ’17 and the @USMNT ahead of tonight’s @FIFAWorldCup opener!

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“He’s loved by his players and is invested in student-athlete success.” - Syracuse Head Coach Gary Gait on new Fairfield Head Coach John Odierna

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Passion. Energy. Heart.

- Paul Carcaterra on new Fairfield Head Coach John Odierna

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Welcome John Odierna to @FairfieldU as the Head Coach of Fairfield Men’s Lacrosse!

➡️ https://t.co/soTUqTpIoV

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More than a degree, #FairfieldU empowers students to build meaningful futures through purpose, knowledge, and experience.

[Travis Tellitocci @TTellitocci]

Appreciate the collaboration and engagement of our Presidents, Athletics Directors, Senior Woman Administrators, coaches, student-athletes and corporate partners as we continue working together to strengthen and advance the Conference.

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#FairfieldU proudly celebrated its 76th Commencement this May across three ceremonies, honoring the achievements of over 2,000 graduates in the Class of 2026. From associate to doctoral degrees, graduates were honored for their hard work and leadership. https://t.co/ct6cegxZm5