Another favorite event for Callahan on campus is Runner Letter Day, designed to support freshmen during midterms of their first semester on campus in the form of an encouraging letter.
“Our campus community rallies together to write to our freshmen and remind them of their dedication to their success at CSUB,” said Callahan.
She added that it will “look a little different this year,” but the goal hasn’t changed. All freshmen will still receive a personalized box folder with a special video message and at least one letter.
Finally, the fourth annual International Education Week is scheduled for November 16-20, which will include a full schedule of events, featuring food giveaways at local restaurants with an international cuisine , including Blue Elephant for Thai Food, Viceroy Indian Cuisine and Bar for Indian food, Toro Fusion Grill for Japanese food, Frugatti’s for Italian food and Ruben’s for Mexican food.
Callahan explained that one of the challenges they have been met with is being able to provide meals in large quantities to the students. In the past, Campus Programming has been able to feed more than 200 students a meal at a meaningful discussion or celebration.
“Although that looks a little different, we are still providing meals as we partner with local restaurants this semester for students to do take-out,” she said.
At this time, Campus Programming has partnered with Ruben’s Mexican Food and Kings Ice Cream.
In order to stay plugged in and on top of events and resources offered at this time, Callahan encourages students to follow Campus Programming on social media, as well as other CSUB accounts, which will provide more details about their events. It’s also important to check the virtual events calendar often, if students would like to attend an event.
Callahan also encourages students to view the Virtual Wellness Tips Sheet: Resiliency Resources and the 8 Dimensions of Wellness on CSUB’s Wellness website, which reminds students to help maintain their physical, emotional, social, environmental, intellectual, occupational, financial and spiritual health.
“We know that Zoom fatigue is a real thing right now. However, expanding your mind with a fun activity or new information or a social opportunity is good for the soul,” Callahan added.
Follow @campusprogramming on Instagram for more information on the events listed above and more to come.