Let me start by saying how proud I am of this University. Over the last couple of months, a fierce Bengal Pride has taken over. As an institution, we are making so many positive waves. The Idaho State debate team took top honors at an intercollegiate tournament, ISU was recently ranked first in Idaho for serving black students, and ISU will receive a significant part of a new $20 million National Science Foundation grant awarded to Idaho through EPSCoR. And if that is not enough, professor Naomi Velasquez was named Idaho Art Educator of the Year, the Idaho State football and volleyball teams won their respective Battle of the Domes games, and the Bengal community came together to collect more than 10,000 cans of food to support Benny’s Pantry. The passion and commitment of the campus community is contagious.
Your support of Idaho State University contributes to our success. I have picked up leadership tips and advice from a lot of different sources over the years. One of my favorite leadership tips is this:
Decisions are made by those who show up
. To me, this means that just by showing up, by being present, we make huge leaps towards accomplishing our mission. Our University is seeing the positive impacts of “showing up.” Thanks to alumni and friends such as yourself, our football pre-game events have higher attendance than we have seen in years, the theater department sold out multiple nights of their first production of the year, “First Date,” and a few weeks ago we hosted our largest recruitment event in ISU’s history. Thank you for your support.
I encourage you to keep showing up.
Roar, Bengals, Roar!
Kevin
