I like stories.  I particularly like stories that are true.  Stories that are real.  As a college president I am surrounded by stories.  Each student is a story; a series of subjects and objects, nouns and verbs, active voice and passive voice.  Each student’s life is a plot in process, a tale of undetermined outcome and proportion.

Each student’s story has many characters.  The cast of each plot is somewhat predictable, moms and dads, brothers and sisters, folks back home who packed up hope and sent it off to college in the person of our hero.

Upon arrival at college new characters emerge.  Friends, mentors, those who provide inspiration, those who provide challenges in the story’s plot, those who offer resolution.

As I watch these stories unfold, I have the privilege of being aware of unseen characters in these narratives.  There are unseen heroes at NNU.  There are people who have stepped forward and made generous gifts, gifts that make college possible.

I want to invite you to click on this link and listen to student stories.  I expect great things from these young people telling their stories.  But the things I expect of them, have been made possible by individuals whose gifts make probable what was thought improbable, make available what was out of reach, provide pages upon which the story of a life of possibility and promise can be written.

Listen to our student stories.  Remember the generosity of unseen heroes.