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| This is my final magazine message to you, and I am happy to say that Plymouth State University’s future is bright. |
PSU’s largest integrated academic building, Active Living, Learning, and Wellness (ALLWell) North, will open in fall 2015. It will serve as a living-learning laboratory, increasing opportunities to provide educational, athletic, wellness, and recreational activities to the campus, local communities, the region, and the state. Like the Savage Welcome Center and Hanaway Rink before it, ALLWell North will create momentum to propel PSU forward.
New academic programs are being developed, such as the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT). This exciting program, when approved, will help to meet the health care needs of our region. Housed in the newly remodeled Samuel Read Hall Building, DPT will join the departments of counselor education and school psychology and of nursing, which have first-rate instructional laboratories there. The nursing simulation labs are a recreated hospital wing that will enable students to have the hands-on, minds-on education for which PSU is known. Also under way this year is a new Center for Student Success to integrate international efforts, academic advising, and career counseling. The list
goes on.
PSU is recognized for providing a personalized educational experience. This year, enrollment management efforts and an integrated marketing communications campaign have led a record number of prospective students to apply for admission, attend open houses, and make early deposits for fall 2015. That, too, is exciting.
All of this energy and forward momentum is because of PSU’s people—the bright and energetic undergraduate and graduate students, the vibrant faculty and staff members, the dedicated senior leadership team, the committed alumni, donors, parents, trustees, regional partners, and friends—all of whom come together on behalf of PSU and its mission to educate and serve.
In my inaugural address, I spoke of my first visit to Plymouth State and of being impressed by the people here, by their shared commitment to student success and to each other as a community, by their genuine engagement with the region, the state, and beyond. The reason I came is the reason I have stayed, and I will always love PSU. Together, we have been able to, as my mother would have said, “imagine a way” to do good and transformational work. I look forward to helping with the presidential transition and cheering as PSU continues to advance into that bright future.
