Friday, September 27, 2019

A Busy Start to the Fall

It’s been a busy start to the fall semester here “on the hill” in Bloomsburg.  The leaves are beginning to change on campus, the temperature is perfect under beautifully sunny skies, and Homecoming and Parents & Family Weekends are quickly approaching.

If you haven't seen our brand video, please take a minute to watch it here. You'll be inspired by the powerful message that tells the story of BU. Also, soon we'll have new banners popping up all over campus, billboards will be going up in selected markets, and our new admissions materials will be in the hands of our potential incoming students. You’ll also see many of our students on campus wearing t-shirts with the Your Onward is Upward message. We’ll have more to giveaway as the semester rolls along.


Earlier this month, we unveiled our new SEKISUI Professional Experience Lab (PEL) at the Greenly Center on Main Street.  I urge you to visit the Greenly Center and the PEL on the third floor.  Ronn Cort, President and COO of SEKISUI SPI, summed up the September 5th dedication event perfectly by saying the following: “If you consider BU a thread, SEKISUI a thread and the town a thread, when you wind them together, the thread is stronger together than separately. We want to see our workers who graduate from BU stay in the area and strengthen all of us.”  We are fortunate to be working with forward-thinking employer-partners like SEKISUI SPI who share our same commitment to our students and their success. Please click here to see a short video of the SEKISUI Professional Experience Lab dedication event.

This month we also received notice of being ranked among the top colleges and universities by Forbes, Money, Inc. and U.S. News & World Report.  These rankings are a testament to the hard work and dedication of our faculty and staff.  The credit goes to them, and most importantly, to our high-achieving students who are determined to achieve even more.

Speaking of our students, I’d like to close this blog post by recognizing all our students and student organizations that coordinated our annual 9/11 tribute on the Quad this month.  What a powerful tribute this was, especially when one considers that many of our students are too young to remember the tragic events in 2001.  For this reason, it is ever important to honor the memory of those we lost.  THANK YOU to our students on a job very well done!

GO HUSKIES!