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June 2009

A Hive of Activity on a Quiet Campus.

June is a quiet month on campus. By now spring semester is over and most faculty members have gone off to their labs, the library, or are pursuing research in the four corners of the globe. A few students are around in summer school courses, but the energy and tempo of the campus has changed considerably from the frenetic pace leading up to the end of spring semester.

In the midst of all this quiet there is a small army of dedicated faculty, staff, and students who are handling freshman orientation. All of the new freshmen for fall come to campus during June and July to get their fall schedules set and in many other ways to get oriented toward their coming new life as college students.

In the Honors College we see about 15 new freshmen each day. We greet their parents in the morning, and talk with them about the transition to college, and we greet the new students in the afternoon. As with everything we do here, it is an individualized affair. While I talk to the group for a while about being a college student and getting an education-while getting a degree-it is the hour or so spent with an advisor that really counts. Here we begin to understand the individuals that will be our new freshmen class as individuals. And here we find each of them their own individual schedule of fall classes. No two are identical. This is the beginning of the craft process of an Honors College education.

Davis Baird
Dean,
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