I know that many of you reading this blog have already been to campus, and possibly participated in an "official" Admission event (campus tour, group information session, day visit, etc.). So, you are already familiar with our campus programming, another area we spend a great deal of time and energy on in the Office of Admission. In order to make sure that you have the best possible campus visit experience, our Programming Task Force (along with the rest of the Admission staff providing support) irons out all of the little details and, with the cooperation of the entire campus community, puts on both small- and large-scale events.

We put on three of the large-scale events each year during the spring semester, two for our Early Action invited students and one "largest" scale event for our entire group of accepted students. These events are successful due to the hard-working programming team that we have in our office, but also through the support of the rest of our campus community. In January, we held a "Student Life Program" for our EA accepted students that featured student and staff speakers from our Student Activities and Residence Life Offices, and culminated with our prospective families watching the men's basketball team take on Rutgers University in downtown Providence. In order to give our prospective students and their families the best picture of who we are here at PC, the support of our students, staff members, and athletic department were vital!

Coming up later this month, we will hold another program for our EA invited students that will focus on the academic side of Providence College. In this program, we rely on the involvement of our faculty members, who take the time to speak on panels, sit down to lunch with our prospective families, and make themselves available during departmental "open houses" so students can ask them any questions they may have about specific majors or departments.

Finally, in April, we will hold our largest on-campus event of the year: Family Day, to which we invite all of the students who have been accepted into our incoming freshman class. It is one last opportunity for these students and their families to see campus and meet with students, faculty, and staff before they have to make their final decision on where to attend college for the next four years. This event really touches everyone on campus; from the academic staff members to those working in student life areas, every department and office on campus is represented on Family Day and available for prospective students to have their questions answered. It's a big day, and believe me, planning for it is already well underway.

As you can see, the large programming events bring the entire campus community together to provide you with the most information and best possible visit experience. Although, I feel as though I haven't given enough credit to our office programming team in this posting, who spend countless hours doing the behind-the-scenes work for all of the events we have on campus. Indeed, there is an "event-planning" side to working in Admissions! Our programming task force handles everything from reserving space on campus to organizing panels to making sure that there is enough food for everyone at the events (a very important job!)... All of us on the Admission staff really look forward to these events as it gives us the chance to personally meet the students who we have often only gotten to know "on paper." I hope that this description of our campus programming was interesting to all of you... it is to us!!

On a completely unrelated note, rumor has it that some student bloggers will be joining me in the near future... I will keep you up to date... Stay tuned!