Welcome to 2020 - “The Year of the Optometrist”! It’s still pretty quiet around the Elkins Park campus, as classes won’t resume until Monday morning. Our clinics have been open, happily staffed by our 4th year students, residents and clinical staff. So, not much to report this week other than we’re all very excited about entering the new year and moving forward with many of the initiatives we’ve been discussing through 2019.
Submissions are now being sought for Community Expressions 2020, featuring the art work of Salus University faculty, students, alumni, staff, spouses and significant others, that will be exhibited from February 4 through March 13 at the Hafter Student Community Center. Participants can write to Elynne Rosenfeld at erosenfeld@salus.edu and should include:
- Name of artist
- Title of work
- Dimensions of work
- Media used
- Price (or indicate not for sale)
- Affiliation with Salus University or the relationship of someone who is affiliated
- Three- to five-sentence statement that can be used for publicity purposes
The deadline for submitting this information is Wednesday, January 29. Eligibility includes 2D work (up to two pieces per artist) drawing, painting, mixed media, photography.
- All work under glass must be framed and all paintings must be wired securely behind the piece
- Work must not extend more than 6 inches from the wall
- Work must not exceed 36 inches in height or width
- No shipping work will be accepted
- No fragile or wet work will be accepted
- No special hanging needs will be considered
Drop-off of the artwork will be from 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday, February 4, at the Hafter Center. Pickup will be Friday, March 13, or by arrangement over the weekend. This is always a fun event where we see all the wonderful artistic talent our staff has to contribute to the event.
For those who have been on campus and have walking around, you might have noticed that there has been a lot of construction-related activities on the 4th floor of the West Wing. We’ve updated restrooms, replaced HVAC systems throughout the building and have totally renovated the Board Room, which is now designed to host our quarterly board meetings as well as serve as a modular classroom that can be fully utilized throughout the academic year.
On Sunday, Dr. Vitek and I will be heading to Israel where we will be meeting with the leadership team at Hadassah Academic College to discuss collaboration with our optometry program. I’ll be meeting with my counterpart to sign a Memorandum of Understanding that helps to move these collaborations forward. We have also been asked to give a few lectures; I’ll be lecturing on public and global health and how optometry fits into these broad areas and the other on leadership lessons learned while I was in the Navy and Dr. Vitek will be lecturing and conducting a workshop on Evidence Based Practice. I’m happy to present any of my lectures to groups at Salus when we get back. As a side note, given today’s current events, we’ll be paying very close attention to the security picture over there, as I’m sure our hosts will be as well.
So, as we enter into the last weekend of vacation for most of our students, we also have sent many students in our Occupational Therapy program off for their clinical rotation year. I wish everyone the very best as they begin their new semesters and rotations. It’s going to be a great year! Have some fun, get some rest and come back Monday ready to hit those books and care for our patients and clients.
Mike
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