This year’s grand prize is a reserved parking spot for the rest of the academic year—one each for a student, staff member, and faculty member! Learn More.
| TUESDAY, October 28, 2025 | |||
| 8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast |
Start your SUnity Day with a warm cup of coffee and breakfast tacos! |
Bishops Lounge |
| 9:00 - 10:45 a.m. | First Symposium | Browse through Bishops Lounge to see the amazing work showcased by our First-Year and Advanced-Entry Seminar students! | Bishops Lounge |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Paideia Connections Lecture | The Paideia Connections Lecture Series features presentations by two distinguished SU faculty members from different fields. The event is designed to encourage stimulating discussions following the presentations! | McCombs Campus Center, Ballrooms |
| 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Picnic Lunch | Join us for a carnival-themed lunch on the mall! | Academic Mall |
| 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Fall Festival |
Get ready for an afternoon of fun, featuring:
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Academic Mall |
| 1:00 - 1:30 p.m. | Costume Contest |
Break out your best costume and strut the runway for a costume contest! We’ll let the SU community pick their favorites, and prizes will be awarded to the winners. Open to all. See details. |
Academic Mall |
| 1:30 p.m. | Sweet Surprise | Enjoy a carnival-themed Sweet Surprise. | Academic Mall |
| 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. | Poetry Slam | The Education Department invites everyone at SU to join our Poetry Slam, where students, staff, and faculty will share their original poems and songs. Don’t miss this chance to experience the creativity and talent within our community! |
Prothro Room, Smith Library Center |
| 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. | Dodgeball Game |
Duck, dive, and dodge your way to victory as students, faculty, and staff battle it out for ultimate bragging rights! A prize will be awarded to the last person standing. |
Academic Mall |
| 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. | Prize Walk | Join the Prize Walk for a chance to win AirPods 3, a Bose Speaker, a Bundt Cake tower, Amazon, Target, and 309 gift cards, and more! |
Academic Mall |
| 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. | Film Screening: The Shining | Join Professor Cleere’s Horror Film course for a dark journey to the Overlook Hotel with the Torrance Family in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic, The Shining! Based on the extremely scary 1977 novel by Stephen King, the film magnificently blends psychological terror with the uncanny claustrophobia of nuclear family life, and the most frightening set of twins in cinema history. “Come play with us, Danny! Forever and ever and ever …” |
Olin 105 |