2021-2022 Annual Report

As valued members of our Southern family, you are one of our blessings! Your support and engagement made the Southern Experience possible for many students, as you will see in this year's Annual Report.

I hope you will take time to read about the amazing things God did for Southern this past year through your faithful generosity.

As a bonus, I invite you to join me in a Virtual Town Hall on September 13 (8 pm EST) where I'll elaborate on a few of my favorite stories from the Annual Report and answer some of your questions about Southern.

With gratitude,

President Ken Shaw, '80, EdD

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Pastor Reginald Horton, '91, leads a conversation with two Southern Adventist University students who have taken on leadership roles directing Merge Worship, a multicultural service on campus that celebrates the diverse worship expressions of students from various ethnicities, countries, cultures, and backgrounds.

Learn more by visitingmergeatsau.com.

Gifts in support of the Merge-Alma Scholarship for students of single-parent homes can be made atsouthern.edu/give (select “Other” from the drop-down menu and type in "Merge-Alma Scholarship").

Taking a two-week literature course during the summer of 2021 at the University of Edinburgh was an adventure of personal discovery for Julia Ciasca, '22, a graduate with degrees in business administration and accounting. 

Ciasca was stretched academically and personally.

“This experience challenged me to figure out who I am, what I believe, and how I can be a witness outside the ‘Adventist bubble’ I’ve been in,” she says. “It was just the most perfect experience.”

Ciasca collected some of her favorite photos from Scotland to create a photo gallery (with audio narration) for Annual Report readers.

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