Messages from the Provost

When I first started blogging about the Faculty Convocation, I promised to outline for you my goals for Academic Affairs for 2013-14, and here they are: 1)  Despite a mid-course correction to our undergraduate recruitment plan, we exceeded the goal of freshmen we wanted to enroll this fall. Now, I have challenged our team to […]

Greetings from across the globe!  Currently I’m in Beijing attending business meetings of The Beijing Center for Chinese Studies (TBC). As many of you know, Loyola’s Beijing Center campus is located at Beijing University of International Business and Economis (UIBE) in the Chaoyang distrtic of Beijing.  Being thousands of miles from home provides an interesting perspective […]

Last week I promised to give you an update on the progress we’ve made over the past year on some goals that I outlined during the 2012 Faculty Convocation.  Here’s where we stand:  • As you know, we seek to create the premier undergraduate experience in Chicago that is characterized by the pillars of the […]