{"id":4846,"date":"2025-12-18T11:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highpoint.edu\/parents\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:45:13","slug":"december-2025-a-message-from-hpu-president-dr-nido-qubein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highpoint.edu\/parents\/2025\/12\/december-2025-a-message-from-hpu-president-dr-nido-qubein\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2025: A Message from HPU President Dr. Nido Qubein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt;background: #FEFEFF;margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: Poppins;color: #45454a\">Dear Parents,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt;background: #FEFEFF;text-align: start;margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: Poppins;color: #45454a\">I have often shared with you that HPU is a values-based institution \u2013 that we are an extension of your home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt;background: #FEFEFF;text-align: start;margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: Poppins;color: #45454a\">During Christmas and the holiday season, this includes decorating the campus to reflect the warmth and love that you create in your own home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;line-height: 16.5pt;background: #FEFEFF;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: Poppins;color: #45454a\">Students appreciate the campus decorations, time-honored traditions and simple forms of fellowship that center around the holidays. Our diverse and engaged student body celebrates the holidays with a sense of gratitude and openness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;line-height: 16.5pt;background: #FEFEFF\"><span style=\"font-family: Poppins;color: #45454a\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt;background: #FEFEFF;text-align: start;margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: Poppins;color: #45454a\">We are proud to witness the character of your student and their classmates at HPU through many philanthropic and service initiatives that seek to help families in need. While students contribute more than 500,000 hours of service throughout the year, their passion to serve during Christmas and the holiday season is amplified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;line-height: 16.5pt;background: #FEFEFF;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: Poppins;color: #45454a\">Continuing their annual tradition of giving back, High Point University\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.highpoint.edu\/blog\/2025\/12\/hpus-board-of-stewards-helps-salvation-armys-angel-tree-program-and-west-end-ministries\/\">Board of Stewards<\/a> students purchased toys, clothes and necessities for 100 children through the Salvation Army\u2019s Angel Tree program, while High Point University\u2019s student chapter of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highpoint.edu\/blog\/2025\/12\/hpu-students-co-host-special-populations-christmas-dance\/\">co-hosted a special dance<\/a> with the High Point Parks and Recreation\u2019s ASPIRE (Adaptive Sports, Programs and Inclusive Recreation) unit. After exams ended, we began our annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highpoint.edu\/blog\/2025\/11\/hpu-christmas-drive-continues-this-holiday-season-2\/\"><span style=\"color: #330072\">Christmas Drive<\/span><\/a>, along with several other holiday events, that welcome more neighbors and friends throughout High Point and the Triad region to enjoy fellowship and our festive campus \u2013 just as your student gets to experience campus every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;line-height: 16.5pt;background: #FEFEFF\"><span style=\"font-family: Poppins;color: #45454a\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt;background: #FEFEFF;text-align: start;margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: Poppins;color: #45454a\">As you welcome your student back home for the holidays, please know that our faculty and staff consider your partnership and advocacy a gift to be treasured. We are privileged to assist your student on this transformational journey and look forward to an extraordinary new year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt;background: #FEFEFF;text-align: start;margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: Poppins;color: #45454a\">Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 16.5pt;background: #FEFEFF;text-align: start;margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: Poppins;color: #45454a\">Nido R. Qubein<br \/>\nPresident<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents, I have often shared with you that HPU is a values-based institution \u2013 that we are an extension of your home. During Christmas and the holiday season, this includes decorating the campus to reflect the warmth and love that you create in your own home. 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