b'LET TE R FROM THE VICE PR E SIDE NTAs we usher in the New Year, wecompassionate care to thousands of continue to count our blessings as amen, women and children in need of community that educates, inspires andthe most basic health care. During the supports one another. Compassionlast two decades, Global Outreach has and care are the cornerstones ofexpanded to include a variety of service this support, and this past year ouropportunities for students to enhance community extended theirs by offeringtheir education. Local opportunities programs and initiatives that connect have been with Alternative Spring us through gratitude, service, dignityBreak and statewide outreach has and purpose.included Remote Area Medical, One of these programs is the LittleMountain Mission School and Tangier Hope Pantry (LHP). Created by theIsland. Our national and international Center for Student Success, thismissions have traveled to Haiti, Peru, pilot program has been embracedDominican Republic, Bahamas and by the entire campus and has grownmost recently to North Miami to serve to include more than nonperishableMelanie Green, PhD, RNthe local Haitian community. We are food items. The LHP is located in theVice President, thrilled to continue our long legacy of student lounge and is sourced by theRichmond Higherservice to underserved and vulnerable community for the students. Read moreEducation Institutions communities here and abroad. about this initiative on page 21, whichAs we unite in purpose, we continue goes beyond food insecurity to improvethe important work and conversation student health and learning outcomes.around justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. Foundational In our cover story we highlight the return to Global Outreach,groundwork took place during the 20212022 academic year, which had been on pause since the pandemic began in 2020.including a Climate Survey that students, faculty and staff In doing so, the mission of our institution was brought toparticipated in last spring. While we have much work aheadthe forefront: cultivating servant leaders who are passionateof us, we are proud of the steps we have already taken about bringing people and communities to health andand built together over the last several years. These wholeness. Our curriculum integrates servant leadership intoinclude, among others, our holistic admission process, nursing practice to promote community health just as ourstudent-centered learning approach and support, service founders, The Sisters of Bon Secours, did in Paris after theopportunities, Safe Zone training and policy revisions to devastation of the French Revolution.reflect more diverse circumstances. Its hard to believe that the Global Outreach program weThanks to our generous donors, engaged alumni and know today originated as a single mission trip to Haitisupportive leadership, faculty and staff we can continue to nearly 23 years ago. Since that first journey, hundreds ofexpand our programs and resources that go beyond the students and dozens of faculty members have providedclassroom to educate the next generation of nurses.'