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The VP’s Pen: Don’t You Love it When a Plan Works? What Students Are Saying About Friend of LOUniversity Red Barn Highlighted in NACA Magazine New RSO Supports Disability Awareness!!! Opening Week at UofL New Student Recreation Center Update Student Support Services Bridges the Gap Summer Academy Mixes Fun with Learning Endowments Grow Photo Album Exciting Fall Events 2011 Panhellenic Recruitment Goes On! Walking and Talking: Teaching & Learning Student Involvement Fairs Light Up the New West Plaza Yell, Yell, Yell! University of Louisville Arts Madness Fall Semester 2011 Welcome to Student Affairs Kudos Mark Your Calendar! Special Thanks
1. The VP’s Pen: Don’t You Love it When a Plan Works? Many of you within Student Affairs can remember different periods of our collective work. Sometimes we chronicle these periods around students we may recall, or people we may have
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directly worked beside in our usual day. A few of us also chronicle our Student Affairs work by the vice president that was in the chair at the time or the University President for that period. Either way, the last few years have truly been remarkable and our students have been direct beneficiaries of your commitment and work. I have stated, “We get to work with the smartest people on the planet.” Our students will be the leaders of our corporations, communities, and countries. They will be the scientists and scholars that discover ways to heal others or the find answers for other complex challenges we face. We get to work with these people, and we do it selflessly with a simple goal to help our students learn, become a little better, and to learn how to succeed so later they can apply these efforts outside of the university. Recently, I was returning from an SSAO meeting in another state and the person beside me on the plane struck up a conversation. He was an attorney for a pharmaceutical company and attended the University of Connecticut for undergraduate studies and Syracuse University for his graduate work. He remarked that his stronger connection was to Syracuse. This was a surprise until I asked the usual follow-up “Student Affairs” questions. In our short conversation he learned a lot about Student Affairs and the positive influence we have with many students - an influence of which many may never be aware. To his surprise, he began to understand why he was more connected to his graduate alma mater. He simply was a lot more involved at Syracuse.