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Student Faculty and Staff Dinner

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The Student Faculty and Staff Dinner took place on November 19, 2015 in the Campus Center Event Room. The primary objective of the dinner is to honor exceptional professors at Stockton. This event is open to the entire student body and it is through the students that the dinner is made possible. Students hand pick the professor they wish to invite: each student is allotted one ticket for themselves and another for a faculty or staff member.

I heard about the dinner a few days before the event and I immediately drew a survey of professors I wanted to invite in my mind. Although I am only a freshman, I found myself having great difficulty choosing which professor I would give my second ticket. For this reason, I enlisted some help from some friends who share similar schedules and professors. In the end, we ended up inviting about seven professors but three were unable to attend. My guest was my chemistry lab professor, Dr. Walters. I thought he was really deserving of the honor because of how diligent and helpful he is during lab. He graduated from Stockton for undergrad and this was his first year teaching at the university.

The really cool thing about the dinner is that it gives students the opportunity to show their appreciation to faculty and staff members who have helped them throughout their career at Stockton. A lot can be said about the quality of faculty and staff members at Stockton just by looking at the turn out of the dinner. The Event Room was packed full of bright eyed students and gleaming professors grateful for the invite. There were at least fifty tables set up with about fourteen seats each so you can only imagine the magnitude of the event.

The other really cool thing about the dinner was that was an endless supply of free gourmet food just in time for Thanksgiving. The food was really good. Personally, just the food alone provided incentive for me to participate in the next annual dinner. There was mashed potatoes and sweet potato pie, and penne de vodka, and a meat station, and an assortment of bread right out of the oven, and MORE. It was just really good.

If you or a friend are ever looking for an opportunity to show your professors that you care and appreciate them, the Student Faculty and Staff Dinner is the place to go. Besides eating, I got to sit down with my favorite professors, and other professors at my table, and converse with them. I was really nice actually getting to know them outside the classroom setting. The dinner encourages a healthy and personal relationship between staff and students which, like Stockton, is very distinctive.

Alpha Lambda Delta Induction Ceremony

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Alpha Lambda Delta is the academic honors society at Stockton that freshman students can join after their first semester. In order to be eligible for the honor society they must meet a 3.5 minimum GPA requirement and pay a $50 membership fee. Benefits of joining include scholarship and leadership opportunities as well as it just looking really good on your resume. The induction itself took place on February 19, 2016 at 5 pm at the Campus Center event room. There would be an induction portion and then an honorary dinner.

Inductees were supposed to wear business casual attire. This is where I went wrong. I had the most major wardrobe malfunction and ended up wearing a camo baseball cap, a tshirt, leggings and running shoes. I was mortified when I saw my classmates dressed in the gorgeous and professional outfits, the men wearing suits and dress shirts, girls in dresses skirts and heels. To say the least, I felt like an elephant. Granted, I showed up to the dinner still frantic from rushing to hand in my TALONS application so I did not have the opportunity to change because I am a commuter. I remember sitting at the table and everyone saying it’s okay, that they’re not judging me. But I was judging me. Even reassurance from Dr. Rosner, the faculty advisor of the honor society and the head of the honors program, didn’t erase my uneasiness. Thankfully, I have awesome friends who rushed me a change of clothes so I could feel less out of place.

Moving on to the actual ceremony, the induction featured a few speakers including Dr. Rosner and the President of the university, Harvey Kesselman. Then came calling everyone’s name. Since there were so many inductees, what happened was when your name was called you stood up. All applause was meant to be saved until the end. It was actually really funny, hearing the speaker either butcher or eloquently say the person’s name and then looking around the large room for a body to pop up. Although the honor society is incredibly selective, I felt proud to see so many of us that were being inducted. The name calling took an extensive amount of time, especially since the dinnertime food was glaring at us from the other side of the room. Slowly but surely, however, every name was called and person was standing. There was a huge round of applause and the inductees were directed to pick up their certificates and get food.

So all in all, please learn from my mistake and dress to impress. Even if you don’t, people will not judge you because everyone is so nice… but you will feel out of place. Work hard and make sure to get the 3.5 GPA your freshman semester so you can be part of such a wonderful national honor society such as Alpha Lambda Delta.