My name is Shannon Ellis. I'm the Vice President of Student Services at the University of Nevada, Reno. I'm talking to you from the fourth floor of the Pennington Student Achievement Center, a building dedicated to student success both in and out of the classroom.
We continue to provide you with those very important services, whether it was remote last March or now in a hybrid model. We want you to know
that as you return to campus whenever you are ready. We are here for you mental health, counseling services, health services, tutoring, academic support in writing and math, career development, all of the things you knew and used so well are here for you when you return.
But it's more than the Pennington Student Achievement Center. Our residence halls stayed open last spring for nearly 100 students who needed to stay on campus. We will be welcoming almost 2,500 students into our residence halls and our dining commons for residents and non-residents will be open to you.
The student union is available serving food, allowing for you to meet under the directives of the governor and the CDC. And we will have plenty of things going on to welcome you during Welcome Week on campus. It will be different, but you already knew that.
We have all gotten used to keeping ourselves safe and our colleagues, friends, faculty, staff safe because we're a community. We care about
each other. So you'll be wearing your masks everywhere, washing your hands. We'll give you plenty of opportunity to enjoy the campus while being socially distant from friends and new friends. All of the opportunities that this university has given to you. Or, if you're a new student, that you're anxiously anticipating will be here for you.
This is a campus dedicated to not just your success but also your health, your wellness and your ability to engage in developing into the person you want to become. Through all of the opportunities even a pandemic gives us to afford you.
We're glad you're coming back. We've been waiting for you. Many of us were able to return the end of May, 1st of June, and it was a wonderful time second semester of this summer to have students join us.
They're around. They're participating in events and things that are smaller groups but still online and remote and available to all of you.
So whenever you come back, you are welcome back to the Wolf Pack family.
