Posted Oct. 9 - In an 1841 essay titled “History,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

Ask faculty and staff why they work at Manchester and, almost to a person, they will say “our students.”  Our passion at Manchester is nurturing students – encouraging, challenging, mentoring, teaching – providing all of the resources and support they need to discover where they might go with their lives.

When new students arrive on our campuses, we give them an acorn. When they graduate, they receive an oak seedling. Both represent the hope that we place in them, that they will thrive while they are here and beyond.

If, as Emerson wrote, one acorn can yield a thousand forests, then our work, minute-by-minute, day-by-day, year-by-year, yields thousands upon thousands of forests. This is who we are.