Admissions, Alumni, and More

Like every American, I remember exactly where I was on 9/11/2001. On today's seventh anniversary of this tragic event, our hearts go out to the victims and our memories go back to the heroes.

Yesterday MWU's Downers Grove Campus welcomed 296 new students, and today we will graduate 158 alumni. For both groups, it has been a week of endings and beginnings, with much excitement and joy for all.

MWU's matriculating classes of 2008 were welcomed to campus today for the first day of orientation. The 535 new students starting in the fall quarter joined 240 students who began classes in the summer session for a total of 775 new students. This is by far the largest entering class in the 12-year history of MWU.

For those of you who enjoy online social networking, you know that Facebook is actually quite cool. Where else can you blend your personal, professional, and even political lives together and then share with your coworker, your neighbor, your best friend, and your boyfriend from the sixth grade? Definitely cool.

They came from 30 high schools throughout Arizona, and even a few from California and New Mexico. For eight days this summer, 48 students in the 2008 MWU Health Careers Institute got a crash course in the life of practicing health professionals as well as students in many medical fields.