2021 Alumni Award Panel
Highlights from the Distinguished Service Award and Emerging Alumni Award winners during the 2021 Alumni Award Panel


鈥淚t's the power of the place. The experience that you have when you live here for four years and you walk the paths every day, walk up and down the hills and hope the sidewalks don鈥檛 freeze. But the other part of that is the people that experienced it here with you: the folks you got to know, the folks you learned to love.鈥
鈥淸Being a liberal arts school] forced me to step out of my comfort zone. I didn鈥檛 have to just be one dimensional, and I know that made me a well-rounded person. It forced me to make sure I took other classes and made me respect the other professors and see why they chose this path.鈥
鈥淚n my world鈥攖he business world, the tech world, I couldn鈥檛 imagine going to another place. If you think about professional specialization, you鈥檙e focusing on the wrong thing. When I was here, I learned a lot of different skills. I think going to a place like this where we talk about well-rounded education, where we learn more than just our craft, we will be better leaders in the community.鈥
鈥淭he nursing faculty, as a whole, really worked together to make sure that they catered to each student鈥檚 needs and make sure they know what鈥檚 going on with them. They pay attention, they know what鈥檚 going on with each student, and I think that鈥檚 super important. It makes us feel like we are being invested in.鈥