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A Message from the Director
Through the amazing efforts of faculty and staff from across Miami University, we will launch a living-learning community in the fall of 2009 that builds on and extends the very best of the Western College and Western College Program legacies even as it introduces new ideas and fresh faces to Peabody Hall.
The current projects and future plans of continuing Western students have already begun to guide our thinking about the kinds of undergraduates we aim to attract to the Western Program. As members of our faculty team design the curriculum, we will focus on recruiting those students who seek to create their own individualized courses of study. Implementing a curriculum takes time, and I do not imagine that everything will be in place all at once, so I ask for your patience — and your participation — as the new program takes shape.
The interest generated among talented Miami faculty and students gives me great hope for what lies ahead. I have real confidence that third-wave Western, as I've taken to calling it, will be a dynamic, intellectually challenging program and a vital, diverse community of learners — and I'm thrilled to be part of it!
Mary Jean Corbett
Interim Director
Western Program
