East Stroudsburg University\u2019s Vice President for Campus Life and Inclusive Excellence, Santiago Solis, Ed.D., was honored by the Baltimore Ravens and the National Football League last Sunday as part of a series of special events during Hispanic\u00a0Heritage Month. During the Ravens\u2019 game against the Cincinnati Bengals in Baltimore, Dr. Solis received the NFL\u2019s Hispanic Heritage Leadership Award in recognition of his contributions as a Hispanic leader in Baltimore while he resided in the area. In addition to the award, Dr. Solis was also asked to select an agency that would receive a $2,000 donation from the NFL. Solis identified CASA, an organization that is devoted to \u201cemployment placement, workforce development\/training, health education, citizenship, and financial, language and literacy training to Latino and immigrant communities \u2026\u201d throughout Maryland. For the past 12 years Solis volunteered with CASA because of the organization\u2019s commitment to immigrants and advocacy for undocumented individuals.<\/p>\n
Dr. Solis became ESU\u2019s vice president for campus life and inclusive excellence on September 23, 2019.\u00a0He brings more than 25 years of experience in diversity, education, administrative leadership and community involvement to his new role at ESU.<\/p>\n
\u201cReceiving this award was a great honor and humbling experience for me,\u201d said. Solis. \u201cMy hope is that this recognition will inspire students and others to do all they can to lift up and help their communities.\u00a0It\u2019s all about getting involved and making a difference in the lives of those around us.\u201d For Dr. Solis, civic engagement is extremely important and he looks forward to working with students, faculty, and staff at ESU on volunteer and service initiatives to benefit the Poconos region.<\/p>\n
While new to ESU and the surrounding community, Solis has already been impressed by the University\u2019s commitment to its surrounding communities. In September nearly 100 members of the campus community joined the Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau and local businesses in the county-wide clean up initiative, Pick Up The Poconos. He\u2019s heard of the work done with ESU and the Salvation Army for their Harvest Festival and the collaboration the university had with the Greater Pocono Mountains Chamber of Commerce\/East Stroudsburg Community Alliance for the inaugural Picklefest. \u201cThese are just a few examples I\u2019ve seen so far, that shows ESU\u2019s commitment to the community,\u201d Solis said. \u201cI am looking forward to participating in these and other community initiatives throughout the Pocono Mountains Region, serving alongside fellow Warriors.\u201d<\/p>\n
This was the ninth year for this NFL campaign and this year\u2019s theme was \u201cFeel the Orgullo.\u201d In Spanish, the word \u201corgullo\u201d means pride. For more information about the NFL\u2019s celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, fans may visit\u00a0www.NFL.com\/HispanicHeritage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ESU\u2019s Vice President for Campus Life and Inclusive Excellence, Santiago Solis, Ed.D., was honored by the Baltimore Ravens and the National Football League last Sunday as part of a series of special events during Hispanic\u00a0Heritage Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":19391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19392,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19388\/revisions\/19392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}