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Student Success: SMU Student Affairs Ranks Among the Best in the Nation
For the third year in a row, Samuel Merritt University has been named one of the 30 Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs, by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, an online news website for...
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Abigail Spaulding was worried. Her 20-year-old patient seemed to have plateaued, having made little progress during his two weeks at one of the country’s premier brain trauma centers, Spaulding...
“The Good Times Were When I Was Living in My Car”
When Jason Saunders, MPA ’23, thinks back to being 18, he remembers many of his peers locked away in jail, involved in selling and taking drugs, or dead. He was determined to take another path. “I...
“I Had it in My Hands and Then it Was Taken Away”
When he was a little boy in Venezuela, Yan Fernandez-Carvajal, ELMSN-FNP '23, remembers running from an old woman with tumors all over her body. “She had bumps all over her face, arms, and legs. At...