First Word

Dear Friends, At a time when higher education is seemingly under siege, Susquehanna is leaning into its values, and we are winning.  We are winning because of the remarkable achievements of our alumni, the outcomes of our students, and the commitment of our faculty and staff to our mission to “educate students for productive, creative, and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic, and interdependent world.”  “Great things, those things that really matter, that…

Dear Friends, At this unprecedented moment for higher education with challenges coming from many directions, we are fortunate to celebrate so many good things connected to Susquehanna University.  At the completion of our 167th year,  we continue to be a dynamic bridge between the past and the future.  Our students benefit from the firm foundations and ethical traditions rooted at our founding while graduating with a rich set of applied skills and life-changing experiences. “They come here to…

Dear Friends, We recently celebrated commencement, and one of the recurring themes of that event was using our talents to change the world for the better. This is the altruistic goal of “achievement, leadership, and service”; and that is an underlying theme of this issue of Currents, making our world better through the art of storytelling. This Spring, we hosted two alumni who screened documentaries they have recently produced. Alumnus Fernando Ramirez’s film lifts up…