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By Doug Goodnough—
Special to the Daily Telegram
Siena Heights University will have a new “front door” to its Adrian campus beginning this fall.
The university is converting its former nursing building into the Patricia A. Erickson Enrollment and Welcome Center. Once completed, the more than $700,000 in renovations will house the university’s enrollment and financial aid operations.
Michayla Miller and Jenna Stahl were named the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award winners during Siena Heights University’s annual Honors Convocation, which was conducted May 1 in a virtual format.
Miller, a senior double major in applied mathematics and Spanish, is from Medina, Ohio. She was a captain on SHU’s women’s cross country and track and field teams and was president of the Spanish Club. Stahl, a senior from Monroe, Mich., majored in nursing and was a NAIA All-American in competitive dance for the Saints. She also was a former Miss River Raisin Festival pageant winner.
Assistant Professor of English Dana Schumacher-Schmidt received the Eileen Rice Award for Outstanding Teaching. According to her nominator, “Not only are her teaching methods creative, she also encourages and allows her students to be creative.” One of her students’ favorite assignments is the “Dr. Schu Un-essay Project,” in which students are allowed to express their knowledge about a subject using any means of creative expression they choose other than an essay.
She is affectionately known by many of her students as “Dr. Schu.”
From her detail-oriented course prep-
aration to her extraordinary efforts in making the classroom a fun place to be, Dana Schumacher-Schmidt was recog-
nized as the 2019-20 Eileen K. Rice Award Winner for Outstanding Teacher. The associate professor of English who finished her sixth year at Siena Heights University said her goal is to “spark students’ interest.”
Reflections recently interviewed this year’s Rice Award winner: