A Return to Campus: Week of December 13th, 2019

Students, Faculty, Residents, Staff, Alumni, Board Members and Friends,

It’s great to be back on campus after spending the better part of ten days in China and Singapore with Dr. Vitek meeting with our alumni and new potential students.  While these trips provide a great deal of opportunity for us to tell folks about all the great things you’re doing here at Salus, it’s always great to be back home. 

Many thanks to our International Students for cooking up a wonderful holiday lunch on Wednesday.  There were foods from Saudi Arabia, China and yes, even the US!  

To kick off the holiday season, our faculty and staff will be decorating their office doors so they could compete in the annual door decorating contest across our Elkins Park and East Oak Lane campuses.  Judging will be done next week, so keep an eye out on our Salus social media platforms to see which doors won! 

I’d like to remind our faculty and staff to attend our annual Holiday Party on Friday, 20 December at 1:00pm in the Hafter Student Center. As usual, the event will include food, games, prizes, dancing, and Length of Service Award presentations.

I want to wish our students the best of luck as you finish up your finals!  I hope you all were able to take a break on Wednesday and enjoy some Pet Therapy time in the Learning Resource Center (LRC).  If you weren’t able to make it, keep an eye out around the next finals season as our staff at the LRC make sure to coordinate these sessions as an opportunity for you all to de-stress!

And how about those bagels? – Hopefully they gave you a much needed boost to get you through the day!

Next week, we will be hosting our bi-annual University Development Day and Faculty Social.  As some of you might know, our “UD Day” sessions serve as an opportunity for our faculty members across the University to become students for a day of workshops ranging in topics from team building to personal and professional growth. I look forward to learning from everyone’s sessions.   

The annual Army-Navy game will be played on Saturday at the Linc. So, if you’re going into the city, be aware there likely will be lots of traffic.

So as you get ready to head out for your well-deserved breaks, please stay safe and try to do something fun.  Wishing you all a very safe and happy holiday.

GO NAVY - BEAT ARMY!!!!

Mike