President's Corner
A Look Back at 2021: Stronger Together
Posted on December 22, 2021
As I look back on 2021 this holiday season, I continue to be amazed by our students, staff, and faculty. Over the pandemic, we have seen first-hand the strength and resilience of the SNHU community. Despite the challenges of COVID-19, remote work and learning, and the ever-changing higher education landscape, our community did not skip […]
Read More »Celebrating Commencement & Staff Graduates
Posted on November 15, 2021
This past weekend, we were finally able to celebrate our 2020 and 2021 online graduates across five powerful and inspiring ceremonies. The SNHU Arena was filled with incredible student stories: A 67-year-old grandmother who finished a degree she started in 1972, when I was still in high school. A woman holding her three-week-old infant. A […]
Read More »Remembering 9/11 Through Reflections from President Emeritus Dick Gustafson
Posted on September 10, 2021
September 11 was one of the worst days in our nation’s history, and the anniversary takes many of us back to the moment we first heard the news. We all have our own recollection, whether it was witnessing it firsthand, watching it through a television screen, or hearing the news from a loved one, friend, […]
Read More »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 […]
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