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After months of planning, Babson College gets ready to welcome the class of 2013 on Friday, August 28th 2009. The program is filled with great opportunities for new students to get to each other as well as faculty, staff and returning students. In addition, there are workshops, entertainers, and speakers that will make transition to…
It is amazing how much you time you have to reflect while bouncing down the Hudson River. It is even more amazing to me that I have time to think about how rafting is related to my work with first year college students. One of my summer vacation adventures this summer was to raft with…
How useful is Twitter? A while back I blogged about how I plan to delve into the world of Twitter to see how it can be integrated into my work with first year programs at Babson College. The summer seems like a good time to provide a progress report. After some experimenting with my own account, the…
This past weekend (June 27-28 2009), Babson sponsored two family day events. The first event took place at Babson College and the second event was in New York City at the Posse Foundation Headquarters. The students had their first opportunity to meet fellow classmates of the class of 2013 and participate in a community service project.…
The summer reading committee selected the book Three Cups of Tea, by David Oliver Relin and Greg Mortenson to be read by our entering students this summer. I just finished the book last week and I believe it was a great choice for our students. We plan to discuss this book with the entering students as…
This is a question that can certainly generate many different responses. At Babson we challenge our new students to wrestle with this very question during the first few weeks of classes as part of our First Year Seminar. One answer may be the following: “An immersion into an intellectual and social environment that raises your…
Summertime has arrived at Babson, with Commencement festivities behind us and summer classes well underway. Our attention turns to the many activities necessary to welcome the class of 2013. The first of these is our Family Days the weekend of June 27-28th 2009. We started these events last summer and they were a great success. …
I had an interesting conversation with a first year student a week or so ago. We were discussing how her first year at Babson has gone, and she was honest with me and told me that at the end of the first semester she was wondering if Babson was the right place for her. When…
As I gaze at my calendar for the next 3 weeks, it is filled with “end of the academic year” festivities. Many of these events celebrate the significant academic accomplishments that students have experienced. The FME Reports to the Community and the Honors Program presentations are just two examples of such events. We are privileged in Higher Education to experience these rituals…
Last week, while standing outside a classroom as a program was getting underway, a senior inquired about what I was doing. I mentioned I was helping coordinate the coaching for leadership program for the juniors. He remembered his coaching experience and reflected that many times you do not appreciate the many opportunities that students experience at Babson. Now,…
