A STATELY EVENING Powell, Albright Deliver Creighton 140 Presidential Lecture Message from the President
INSIDE > CREIGHTON EXPANDS IN THE SOUTHWEST: WHY PHOENIX? WHY NOW? P34 FALL 2018 • • 2018 FALL Volume 34 Issue 3 34 Issue Volume A STATELY EVENING Powell, Albright Deliver Creighton 140 Presidential Lecture Message from the President Reflecting with Gratitude n a wonderful holiday tradition, an excited Colin Powell in October. These esteemed national crowd of students, faculty, and staff once speakers offered insightful and thoughtful discussion. again gathered around the steps of St. John’s In September, we joined our health care partners in Church recently to celebrate Christmas at Arizona to announce construction of a new Creighton Creighton and delight in the annual lighting health sciences campus in midtown Phoenix, with a of the campus mall. new approximately 200,000-square-foot facility sched- Follow me: This time of year is often filled with much activity, uled to open in 2021. Iparticularly here on campus as our students busily pre- While we remain committed to enhancing our excel- @CreightonPres pare for final exams, finish projects and papers, and lent health sciences programs here in Omaha, with our CreightonPresident make plans for the upcoming break. partner CHI Health, I am excited about growing our pro- At the same time, this season invites us to deeper grams in Phoenix and working to meet the increasing reflection, and offers an opportunity to pause and give demand for health care professionals in that region. thanks for our many gifts. Indeed, at Creighton, we have Jacque Chadwick, MD, a family physician with a much for which to be grateful. distinguished career in medical education, adminis- This fall, we set a record for total enrollment (8,910), tration and advocacy, has been named the inaugural while welcoming the largest freshman class (1,155) in vice provost of our Arizona health sciences campus, our University’s history.
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