Summer 2020 Campus News

Legacy Room A Permanent Fixture on Adrian Campus

The new Legacy Room made its debut during Homecoming Weekend 2019. Located in the former Farver Lab in the Library, it will serve as the permanent historical display for the University highlighting past and present people, places and events. The Legacy Room is open daily from 9-5. To see more pictures of the Legacy Room, visit our gallery here.

Sissen, Schumacher-Schmidt Present at Conference

On Sept. 28, 2019, SHU faculty members Melissa Sissen and Dana Schumacher-Schmidt gave a presentation titled “Engagement Through Ethnography: What Students Learn When They Write About the Library” at the 2019 Corridors: Great Lakes Rhetoric and Writing Conference.

New Center of Attention at SHU

Erickson Enrollment Center to Open This Fall

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.

2020 Honors Convocation Award Winners

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.