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Welcome to Streak Week

Yesterday was one of the hottest days of the year up here in University Heights.  It was also the big freshmen move-in day and the beginning of Streak Week.  There is no denying it now, the school year is right around the corner.

Over 150 student volunteers (and many staff and administrators) came to campus early to welcome, move-in, and mentor our newest Blue Streaks.  It was inspiring to see so many of our students come out to greet the newest members of our community.  Yesterday was a day that reinforces the kind of community that we have here at Carroll.  I felt it as an undergrad and I still feel it now as an Administrator- the community truly cares for one another.  That is one of the things that makes this campus so great. 

I am really looking forward to this upcoming school year.  The Class of 2011 is a talented, diverse, and active class that will bring amazing things to the university,  It'll be exciting to watch the year unfold.

In the business of recruiting

I guess I am lucky enough to be in a career where I feel so good about a meeting that I want to blog about it after it is concluded.  I've been reading different blogs for years and I am not sure that I ever read a positive blog about a meeting.  Maybe this is the first...ever.

Friday morning, Brian Williams, VP for Enrollment, and I headed over to the Boler School of Business to meet with Dr. Karen Schuele, Interim Dean of the Boler School of Business, and Dr. Jim Martin,  Associate Dean of the Boler School.  They had called this meeting to ask us what they could do to help in recruiting new students.  We talked for over and hour, throwing ideas back and forth, and came up with some great ways that the Boler School can help the Admission Office and vice versa.  Suffice it to say that our prospective student of the class of 2012 will have more and better access to the Boler School, its faculty, and its programs.  All of which is incredibly exciting.

I think this is very telling of the kinds of professors that we have at Carroll.  These are dedicated professors who not only care about the students that they teach now, but also the prospective students that they may teach in the future.  If that is not an encouraging sign, I don't know what is.