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Welcome to the 2023-2024 academic year! The 2023-24 academic year promises to be one of our best ever. It will be a time where our University will continue to make good on its promise to the people of ÁùºÏ±¦µä to collaborate and engage with the communities we serve.
Welcome to the 2023-2024 academic year!
August 28, 2023
Dear Wolf Pack Family,
Welcome to the 2023-24 academic year and the beginning of the fall semester!
I hope the summer months have provided you all with an opportunity to rest, recharge and get ready for the new school year. Our campus is at one of its most beautiful moments. We all feel the energy and excitement in the air, whether it has been over the past week with the arrival of more than 3,600 new students for ÁùºÏ±¦µäFIT, the preparations our faculty and staff have been making in anticipation of the beginning of classes and the thrill of welcoming back our returning students.
We have a lot to look forward to this semester. In a little more than six weeks, the University will celebrate its 149th birthday, on October 12, 2023. This day will mark the beginning of a year-long celebration leading up to our 150th birthday on October 12, 2024. The University opened its doors in Elko, ÁùºÏ±¦µä on October 12, 1874 to seven students. We have come a long way since then- this week we welcome more than 20,000 students to the University!
One of the highlights of the “kickoff” of the celebration will be the groundbreaking of the new Business Building on October 12, 2023 and our football game against UNLV at Mackay Stadium on Saturday, October 14, 2023. This is a special bit of scheduling that the Mountain West Conference and the two schools agreed to in order to help commemorate the start of our sesquicentennial celebration. Please check the University’s 150th anniversary website for news, information and special events planned throughout the coming year.
The 2023-24 academic year promises to be one of our best ever. It will be a time where our University will continue to make good on its promise to the people of ÁùºÏ±¦µä to collaborate and engage with the communities we serve; to lead the research and innovation that will substantially impact ÁùºÏ±¦µä’s future so that all can benefit; to teach and inspire our students to become our next generation of leaders; and to treat everyone with kindness, understanding and respect as we accomplish these important tasks together.
As we begin, I wish to thank you all for sharing all of your many talents, perspectives, experiences, hopes and dreams to this incredibly worthy endeavor of which we are all a part.
May you enjoy every success this year.
Go Pack!
Sincere regards,
Brian Sandoval
President