Hey BU!
So, how exactly does a school of over 4,500 students form a community? Passion. Our own Dean of Students, Dean Elmore, most prominently embodies this passion. Not only is his eagerness to connect with students, faculty and staff beyond commendable, it is genuine.
This honest ambition to connect with students and create community can be noticed within minutes, as one BU parent noticed and shared with the world. The Huffington Post published this amazing article, detailing how the smallest gesture of helping students looking at campus maps can create a feeling of community and care. The author of the article, Lisa Earle McLeod, explains the campus wide initiative that, as a rule, all staff and faculty must stop to help students looking at campus maps.
This may seem like a trivial matter in the grand scheme of things, but being recognized and helped by your professors and administration at BU creates a ripple effect that results in community. You may not have to help someone up and down Comm Ave, but it never helps to just throw a simple smile at a passerby.
Keep doing what BU does best terriers!
P.S. This is not my attempt at getting a raise! But I mean it wouldn’t hurt of course…
One Comment
Indianapolis Jiu Jitsu posted on September 17, 2011 at 9:50 am
Being positive while out can make someone’s day… which in turn can spread. How many times I have been out doing something, under the weather, or just bummed out and one person’s kind remarks or even smile changes the course of my entire day.