ROBERT MORGAN, Dean, College of Health and Human Sciences
Welcome to our spring 2022 edition of the College of Health and Human Services newsletter. As we continue to move forward toward our new normal post-COVID, I am excited for the continued growth and developments in the college. Our recent Day of Giving was very productive as we received over $70,000 in gifts – we thank all of you who supported the college.
We are already planning for the fall as well. We will host a CHHS Alumni Tailgate for the Homecoming game on October 15, 2022. Details are forthcoming, but please plan now to join us.
We are moving all living learning communities (LLCs) for the college into the Mae Smith residence hall. With this, we are working on branding and updating the facility. Our goal is to provide students the opportunities to engage with each other, peers from other schools, and faculty and staff in a fun and exciting learning environment. But we need your help. We are looking to raise $10,000 to help us with this project. If this is something you are interested in supporting, please reach out to me or Steph Taylor (director of CHHS development: StephanieT@foundation.siu.edu).
I’m also excited to announce the development of a CHHS Dean’s Advisory Council, with a first meeting being organized soon. Full details and members of this important council will be announced in the next newsletter.
Here is a list of upcoming events in the coming months, and if you are in town for one of these or any other event or purpose, please let me know you are coming. I would greatly like to meet with you, share more about all that is happening in the college and at SIU broadly, and learn about your time at SIU and subsequent activities.
- Commencement – May 7, 9 a.m. Banterra Center.
- School of Aviation Golf Scramble – June 27 (Boulder Ridge Country Club, Lake in the Hills, Illinois)
- Sunset Concerts – June 30, July 28
- Move-in day – Aug. 18
- First day of fall classes – Aug. 22
- College Connection – Aug. 25 or Sept. 1
- Saluki football home game – Sept. 10 (Southeast Missouri Red Hawks)
- 70th anniversary of the School of Automotive – Sept. 24-26
- Saluki football home game – Sept. 24 (North Dakota Fighting Hawks)
- Family Weekend – Sept. 23-25
- SIU Homecoming 2022 – Oct. 10-15
- CHHS Alumni Tailgate – Homecoming – Oct. 15
- Saluki football home game – Oct. 15 (Western Illinois Leathernecks)
- Touch of Nature’s Haunted Hallow – Oct. 23
- CHHS Faculty & Staff Appreciation Tailgate – Oct. 29
- Saluki football home game – Oct. 29 (Northern Iowa Panthers)
- Saluki football home game – Nov. 12 (North Dakota State Bison)
Best Wishes and Go Dawgs,
Robert Morgan, Ph.D.
robert.d.morgan@siu.edu