And our undergraduate students have the benefit of outstanding professors to provide this foundation. There is sometimes a difficult line to walk between retaining tradition and becoming stagnant. One person's cutting edge development is another's fad du jour. We believe that a certain amount of change is not only healthy, but necessary. New students come each year to challenge and learn.
New faculty bring new ideas to be tested in the academic marketplace.
This has been going on for centuries in the universities, and the University of Florida is a center for the exploration of these new directions. We believe in the appropriate use of new technology to teach all subjects, from chemistry to classics. Last year we told you about the new writing laboratory that opened to rave reviews from faculty and students. This year we have created a computer classroom in which to teach foreign languages using the latest methods, some of which we will develop ourselves. Our computer driven writing laboratory is enlarging its scope to encompass writing in the disciplines.