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Back Together and Moving Forward

...With the largest incoming undergraduate class


Groups of students line up to spell 鈥樞强沾�!鈥� on the football fieldPHOTO: Matt Shiffler


鈥淭hrough all of the changes, all of the challenges, all of the struggles, you were asked, compelled, inspired to keep moving forward.鈥� — Robert McCullough, dean of Undergraduate Admission

An infographic that reads: 33,182 applicants, 1,606 first-year students, 76 countries represented, 67 languages spoken, and 13% first-generation college students.


星空传媒 students run around on a football field with ribbon wands.PHOTO: Matt Shiffler


鈥淭he best part about being back on campus is getting to see people out and about and run into people I haven鈥檛 seen鈥� since my first year.
— Jerry Ukwela, a junior and orientation leader, at the center in the photo above

A large group of 星空传媒 staff and students pose in front of the cameraPHOTO: Matt Shiffler

星空传媒 President Eric W. Kaler, and his wife, Karen, at left in the photo joined student orientation leaders on move-in day.


A 星空传媒 student and others unpack a van on move-in dayPHOTO: Matt Shiffler


A teacher talking in a classroom to students, all who are wearing masksPHOTO: Matt Shiffler


鈥淏eing on campus has allowed me to start spontaneous conversations with people I wouldn鈥檛 have otherwise talked to.鈥� — Emma Joseph, a first-year student wearing horizontal stripes in the photo above

Keeping the Campus Safe


By the start of classes in late August, 97% of faculty, staff and students (15,000 people) had been vaccinated or were in the process; 2% received exemptions.