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Enclosed is your class newsletter ECM • Spring 2011
Friends University Issue 32 Spring 2011
Campus Connection
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From the Alumni Office Lisa Henshall lisa.henshall@ hotmail.com
When we were in school, back in the early 2000s, most people had the experience of being a part of the Internet online revolution. We remember when Yahoo! was king, chat rooms worked slowly and if you wanted to download a PDF, well, you could just get it started and then go to bed—it would be ready by morning. Those following in our footsteps at Friends University are multitaskers who move through websites quickly and (surprise) frequently miss whatever it was they had come to find.
• Master of Business Administration • Master of Arts in Teaching • Master of Health Care Leadership • Master of Management Information Systems If you’d like more information about expanding your knowledge at Friends (this time without the evening commute!) check it out at www.friends.edu/online. Not ready to come back to class? Please come back to campus this spring for the 28th annual Easter Egg Hunt. As president of the Wichita Alumni Advisory Board, I’ll be the emcee of the event.
For them, social media is king. We may have had a paragraph about social media in one or two of our textbooks back “in the day,” but we certainly didn’t foresee Facebook and I know I didn’t see Twitter coming. Perhaps I show my age when I say I have not really warmed up to Twitter yet. Web expert Jakob Neilson said recently, “College students are an important target audience for many Web sites. They’re young, they’re about town, they spend whatever money they have (often online), and they frequently look for many different types of information. For sure, they’re an online generation spending—or squandering— large amounts of time on the Web.” So, it shouldn’t surprise us that Friends has begun to move into the online learning market. (YEA! A little editorial commentary there, sorry.) So far there are two bachelor programs online, but, for grads like us, the exciting ones are the master’s programs:
The Wichita hunt will take place Saturday, April 23 at 1 p.m. If you’ve moved to the northeast part of Kansas, there will be hunts at the Friends’ sites in Topeka and Kansas City Saturday, April 16. For more information, contact the Alumni Office at alumni@friends.edu.
Lisa Henshall, G’04