Values-Based Living and Learning
See HPU's Veterans Day Celebration in action! HPU Hosts 13th Annual Veterans Day Celebration High Point University welcomed its largest crowd ever, more than 2,000 people, to the Nido and Mariana Qubein Arena and Conference Center, for the 13th Annual Veterans Day Celebration, honoring veterans who have served our nation. The event was filled with patriotic speakers and moments to show appreciation for veterans, who were welcomed to a free breakfast after walking a red carpet lined with cheering HPU students. Nearly 100 student volunteers greeted and assisted veterans throughout the event. The North Carolina Brass Band provided patriotic music along with the HPU Chamber Singers, and an eagle soared over the crowd before veterans were gifted with an HPU blanket.
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HPU Gives Teddy Bears to Freshmen to Teach Kindness
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Each year, HPU President Nido Qubein hands out teddy bears to all freshmen during a special session of his First-Year Seminar on Life Skills, a class taught by the president and other accomplished leaders. HPU freshmen are encouraged to give the teddy bear away to somebody who has positively impacted their life. For President Qubein, the teddy bear is a quintessential symbol of childlike innocence, and gifting it to another provides an important life lesson on love, safety and stewardship.
PARENT PERSPECTIVE Families appreciate HPU’s commitment to values-based learning and living.
Watch these families and students explain why HPU was the right fit for them.
HPU Students Provide More Than 100 Thanksgiving Meals to the Community This past Thanksgiving, students filled 100 boxes with turkey, corn, stuffing, cranberry sauce, green beans, mashed potatoes, gravy and a handwritten note. They loaded the boxes onto buses for the Boys and Girls Club of Greater High Point, who delivered the meals to local families. Last year was HPU’s Professional Selling Club’s ninth year donating these Thanksgiving meals to the community.
HPU Stout School of Education Students Teach in South Africa Two professors and 14 HPU Stout School of Education students spent two weeks in South Africa putting their teaching skills to positive use. They tutored children, graded papers, taught dance and read aloud from the books they brought with them to donate to each classroom. The group traveled through much of Cape Town and the eastern provinces learning about the culture, trying various cuisines and examining the history of South Africa.
Annually, HPU students commit nearly 500,000 hours of community service to local organizations and beyond.
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