A Letter from the new GC President

A Letter from the new GC President

By PRESIDENT WILLIAM JONES

Dear Georgetown College Students,

Welcome back! You help to make Georgetown College exceptional.

This fall, we are welcoming one of the largest new student groups in nearly a decade. Retention is up from last year. We have a strong and supportive board of trustees—and so many of our alumni support the college with their gifts.

We are celebrating two national championships from last year: one in forensic accounting and the other in men’s basketball. And, our faculty, staff, and coaches are remarkable professionals who are highly committed to your success. It is great to be a Georgetown College Tiger!

President Jones welcomes the freshman during orientation.

GEORGETOWN COLLEGE

As the new president of Georgetown, I am committed to ensuring that we continue to offer a championship-level education of both the mind and heart.

To more specifically get at this aim, I have been busy working with the Executive Cabinet and the new Expanded Cabinet to identify a set of core values for the cabinet’s work together. Mission statements are often about the who, what and why of a college, an organization or a business. A vision statement outlines where an organization hopes to go. A set of core values spells out “the how.” The cabinet has identified10 core values for this first year.

This list is likely to change over time, but currently it reads: lavishly communicating, actively building community, regularly spreading joy, strategically thinking and acting, gratefully serving, diligently caring, enthusiastically persevering, transparently leading, professionally trusting, and persistently solving.

You are a critical part of our campus community. I hope you will join me in thinking about “the how.”

How will you participate in class?

How will you live in community in your residence hall? How will you plug-in on campus beyond your team? How will you care for a hurting classmate? These are important questions. Please take a few minutes to chat with a friend or two about them.

I look forward to hearing what you think. In the meantime, please stop by my office or stop me out on campus if you would like to chat about your core values for this year or another topic. I am thrilled to be with you at Georgetown College.

Warm regards, Will Jones