The New Year

While the new year started three weeks ago, today feels like the real start of the new year--the first day of classes. One of the reasons I enjoy working in the Helzberg School at Rockhurst is the diversity of programs and students we have. While today is officially the first day of class for our traditional undergraduate and MBA programs, we have other programs that have already begun. For instance, our Executive Fellows MBA students started back on January 4th and 5th and met again last Saturday. The Helzberg School also offers a DO-MBA (specialized program for studying doctors) -- they had classes on January 15 and again Tuesday of this week.

And most of our faculty teach in more than one program. Some of those instructors you have for an undergraduate class likely also teach in one of these graduate programs, giving them access to not only students with different experiences but to companies in this regional area. This diversity of experience is good for our students, but is just as good for our faculty. This semester I will teach a clas of mostly freshmen (and Intro to Business course) and a course of mostly graduating MBA students taking thier final class. I look forward to getting started for good -- today.