Welcome to the Rope Teams Faculty Champions Program! Designed to support your curricular, instructional and assessment efforts as well as to encourage and facilitate your engagement in our career and identity/allyship rope teams, the Faculty Champions program is a shared opportunity to enhance the student experience. This program is led jointly by the Excelsior University Career Readiness Center and the Center for Social Justice to provide you with the resources, connections and support to ensure together our students’ personal, academic, career and intercultural development and success.
Plant and Wellness Day offers a chance to explore the benefits of nature. This Geneva Environmental Network link shares resources on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) and their role in ecosystems and local economies.
https://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/updates/geneva-expertise-in-medicinal-and-aromatic-plants-conserving-health-heritage-and-livelihoods/
Today we celebrate National Nurses Day. Congratulations to our nursing faculty, students, and alumni. In “Trailblazing Nurses Who Changed Nursing History,” by Brandy Pinkerton, we recognize nurses whose historic contributions have shaped healthcare.https://nurse.org/news/nurses-you-should-know-trailblazers-history-impact/
Cinco de Mayo, often mistaken for Mexico’s Independence Day, commemorates the 1862 Battle of Puebla, Mexico, where the French army was defeated. This article by Jordan Smith in History reflect facts and the long-lasting impact of this celebration.
https://www.history.com/articles/cinco-de-mayo-factsThe Center for Social Justice at Excelsior University believes that all people have the right to pursue economic, social, educational, and professional opportunity, that there is a shared responsibility to ensure that nothing stands in the way of this pursuit, and that this stands on the …
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Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday that commemorates the day when the Wampanoag Peoples shared their Autumn Harvest Feast celebration and food with the 1621 Plymouth colonists. This became the first Thanksgiving celebration in the colonies. For the Native Americans, …
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The United States continues to navigate significant changes in its government, politics, and culture. We know that many in our Excelsior and broader communities are impacted by these shifts and actions.
Excelsior University deeply values all backgrounds and perspectives of our students, faculty and staff, in our communities, and throughout the nation. A …
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