President LeBlanc has a focus on getting
everyone educated. He really cares about
each and every one of us and our futures.
What sets LeBlanc apart from everyone else is his
continuous drive and value for
innovation growth.
Southern New Hampshire University, at its core, exists to
transform the lives of students and we
often say that we are the University for
students for whom college is not a
guarantee; first-generation, military
veterans, working adults, maybe you're a
kid who comes from a poor background and college isn't a certainty for you. We try
to create programs and pathways for
everybody. My family immigrated to the
United States when I was a little kid. My parents had eighth grade educations. I was able to
get a college degree, get a professional
job, take good care of my kids my family and
they have a very different life. So how
do you connect those dots? The access to
high quality affordable education, that's
what made it possible for my family to
have a version of the American dream.
What I'm particularly proud of here is
that we want to improve access, we want
to make college more affordable, we want
to improve quality. The thing that cuts
across all of those is this inordinate
focus on student success. The best part
of my job is the occasions I have almost
every day to interact with students where
I feel like I have given them a pathway
and I know that we're setting them off
on a journey that's going to change
their life and make the lives of their
families better, and their communities.
