With this year's freshman class, an exciting new Freshman Honors Program is now up and running. We are in the very initial stages of developing a Computational Science minor that is likely, one day, to be the only such program in the country. Our wheels are turning fast to ensure that an Integrated School of Business will be in place before this sophomore class graduates. We expect registration on the web to become a reality over the next two years, making class scheduling less cumbersome. A committee of faculty, staff and students toured classroom and laboratory facilities early in the summer, generating a list of needed renovations.
Analysis is now in the hands of consultants, with reports soon anticipated.
And our Provost has appointed Al Maag, our University Library Director, to head up Cap's Self Study for North Central Accreditation. In Student Services Student Government is now operating under a new constitution and governance system which expands opportunities for more students to become involved. Your new leaders have already met with the administration to begin the process of working closely on objectives where there is already great overlap in intentions. We hope you will make good use of convenient new student organization directories that will be made available at our September 12 Student Organization Fair. You might also keep an eye on bi-monthly calendars that will be distributed to resident and commuter mail boxes as well as various religious programming flyers.