President's Corner
Reflections on George Floyd One Day Later
Posted on April 21, 2021
Like so many others, I was glued to the television late yesterday afternoon, waiting for the jury to return its verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial. It was an enormous relief to see George Floyd’s murderer convicted on all counts. There was finally accountability, a sense that justice had been served, and some reassurance that […]
Read More »Standing With the Asian Community
Posted on March 18, 2021
I despair that I have write to you once again in the wake of a senseless and hate-filled murder of innocent fellow Americans. This time it was the killing of eight people in Georgia, six of them of Asian descent. This heinous act is part of an alarming and dramatic increase in violent attacks on Asians, Pacific Islanders, and […]
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What SNHU’s Global Education Movement students have taught us about online learning in the most difficult of circumstances
Posted on January 24, 2021
In the last year, COVID-19 has drastically reshaped all of our lives—how we work, shop, visit with friends and family and, of course, how we go to school. As one of the fastest growing universities in the nation — with 160,000 online learners and 3,000 on-campus students — SNHU was uniquely suited to tackle the […]
Read More »An Assault on Our Democracy
Posted on January 7, 2021
Yesterday was a dark day in our country’s history. Over the years, there have been presidential election outcomes I have found bitterly disappointing while others rejoiced. In other election years, I celebrated and others were crestfallen. In every instance, those who supported the winning candidate and those whose candidate lost were certain of one thing: […]
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2020: A Year We’ll Never Forget
Posted on December 23, 2020
As we approach the end of 2020, I am reminded that the holidays are also a time to pause and take stock of that for which we are grateful, even in a challenging year like this one. High on my list is the SNHU community. Throughout the year we accomplished so much together, including accelerating […]
Read More »Asking Better Questions
Posted on October 12, 2020
Learning is an act of humility. In my experience, our best learning often comes when we are at our worst, when we have been most humbled. I’ve often learned more in my stumbles than in my victories and there was some hubris in every instance. Whether our foray into China, launching a start-up, or rapid […]
Read More »Steps to Offer Hope and Empowerment: A Message to the SNHU Community
Posted on June 1, 2020
MEMO To: SNHU Community From: Paul LeBlanc Date: June 1, 2020 Subject: Steps to Offer Hope and Empowerment I have written to you after other events that have shocked our collective conscience – white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, the shootings at the Pulse nightclub, the school shootings in Parkland. With each of those terrible incidents, we felt […]
Read More »Smart, Curious, and Civil – Let’s Give It A Try
Posted on February 3, 2020
The political season has gone from warm to red hot as we move into the presidential primaries and then the general election. As always, New Hampshire is ground zero for much of the nation’s political drama, at least in the first act, though we share that space with the Iowa caucuses and the impeachment trial […]
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2019: An Extraordinary Year for SNHU
Posted on January 9, 2020
2019 was an extraordinary year for Southern New Hampshire University. Throughout the year, we celebrated more than 21,000 graduates, gained new friends and colleagues in Tucson, and supported more than 40 organizations across New Hampshire. As the year comes to a close and the SNHU community continues to grow, I wanted to share some of […]
Read More »In Praise of Mistakes and Humility
Posted on November 18, 2019
Universities are “expert cultures,” where status accrues with each successive degree and being really smart is valued most. In such a culture, mistakes are often treated as failures of intelligence or capacity and asking for help or admitting struggle is seen as weakness. The irony here is that universities, of all organizations, mostly squander the […]
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