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June 26, 2006
Coming soon to a mailbox near you
Attention high school seniors:
Next week, a new undergraduate viewbook will be hitting the mailbox (make sure you're on our mailing list). The viewbook is our flagship publication. Sure, we send postcards, brochures about different aspects of college life at Case, etc., but the viewbook really encapsulates a lot of what you need to know about Case.
This year, our viewbook has almost 50% more pages than last year, but the really exciting thing is that it has several times more stories about students, and more diverse perspectives on the Case student experience.
It has been a huge undertaking...
1000+ emails
70+ students interviewed
6+ days of photography
45 students featured (last time I counted)
the result... priceless, of course!
Thinking about the process, there are three things I would like to share.
First. We mention a lot of senior Capstone projects in the viewbook. I did a senior project back in the day, also at a college where everybody did one. In addition to being a rite of passage to finish the thing, it was also relevant to the working world. Everytime I embark on a large project, there's this part of me that says, "No problem. I've been doing this since I was 21." I guess that was my experiential learning, and how it built my confidence.
Second. The great thing about Case's Office of Undergraduate Admission is the way we collaborate. Many heads really are better than one. So much more creativity flows when there is an exchange between people who bring different strengths and perspectives to the table. I worked very closely with our designer to produce the viewbook, but along the way, many people contributed to the creative process - students, faculty and staff.
And it's not just our office here at Case where that spirit of collaboration lives. You'll see it in the new viewbook - our students do some really amazing things in groups, especially interdisciplinary groups.
Third. Any project this big has moments when it just seems like too much. The thing that's pulled me through, the thing that's helped me to refocus, are all the fabulous students who have taken the time to let us feature them in the viewbook.
So many of them are doing substantial experiential learning far earlier than senior year. One kid got some great, real-world experience his first semester! One of the students who was interviewed but didn't go in the viewbook because of a schedule conflict is just finishing her sophomore year and has been counseling people being tested for the HIV virus at the Free Clinic of Greater Cleveland.
So that's all I can tell you right now. I don't want to detract from that moment when you open your mailbox, pull out our viewbook, and get sucked into all the possiblities and opportunities at Case that our students are going to show you.
Posted by pls9 at June 26, 2006 10:06 PM
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