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Exciting Summer Happenings

The summer is a lot of fun around here with a bunch of events that both energize and showcase our campus. Last week started the beginning of the New Student Orientation season at JCU. Droves of incoming freshmen invade the campus for 2 days while they learn more about JCU, take some placement test, schedule their first semester courses and meet fellow incoming Blue Streaks. These orientation sessions really energize the campus and especially the Office of Admission. Students and families who we have been working with for months (if not years) are finally on campus as JCU students ready to begin their four-year journey. It's really exciting to see students who I traded emails with back and forth for months at JCU. It's incredibly rewarding.

The other big event that happens yearly on our campus is Alumni Reunion Weekend. Starting tomorrow, JCU alumni from classes ending in 4 and 9 will be on campus for the entire weekend. I always get excited to see "The Big Tent" being set up on the Quad because I know it's time to have fun with JCU alums. If you want to check out what's going on for Reunion Weekend, you can visit the web site here .

Social Media Extravaganza

Yes, I know it's been a long time, but I swear there is good reason. We have been putting a lot more time and energy into a bunch of social media sites. You may have known that we were on Facebook, but did you know we are also on YouTube and Twitter? We already have about 50 videos on ourYouTube channel, which range from student and faculty profiles to highlighting student organizations and events, to students using dining hall trays to sled down mammoth snow piles (that one happens to be my favorite). The Twitter page just started about a week ago and we already have over 50 followers. Why don't you become one? And don't forget to become a fan of JCU on Facebook like over 1,200 other people have done since launching the site in December.

By no means are we abandoning this blog, we just run a little slower in the summer as our student bloggers are home for the summer and a few graduated just last weekend. Keep checking back here for updates from the Office of Admission and we'll be back full force with new bloggers when the Fall Semester gets under way.  

32 days and counting...

I know most of my posts have been in the "I can't believe how fast the year is going by" ilk, but that's just the type of year it has been. It doesn't seem that long ago that I was burrowed in my office going through piles and piles of applications from our December 1st deadline. But here we are now, only 32 days from the National Candidate Reply Date.

It's been a long road for everyone. You probably feel like the college search process was the longest process you have ever gone through (quite possibly it is), and we've been sending you stuff as early as your sophomore year in high school so the process is even longer than you probably remember (or want to admit).

If you are a senior and are still making up your mind about where you want to spend the next four years, make sure that JCU is still on that short list. Come and tour the university again (or for the first time), set up a personalized visit, and definitely plan on attending the Class of 2013 Celebration on Saturday, April 4, 2009.

This truly is a great place to spend your undergrad career; as a 2002 graduate this is something that I can attest to. And I wouldn't be doing this job if I didn't believe that this is a special place that can offer things that no other school can offer you. But this is your decision, so let me know if there is anything that I can do to help you.

Good luck and I hope to see a lot of you on campus really soon!