But is, is there one, uh, uh, challenge that, that really is, uh, the most daunting challenge for a university president today?

Uh, I would say, um, it really is this idea of differentiation.

Um, w- we-- as colleges and universities, in some ways we're always gonna be more alike than we're going to be, you know, drastically different.

But how to get a message to your own public, um, that you're doing something special, and you're doing it in a particular way.

Um, and I think that's been one of the things that has perhaps led to this enrollment success that we're enjoying right now, where we've had sixteen percent enrollment growth since twenty-twenty-one.

We're up well over two hundred students in our total student body from about thirteen eighty-one to over sixteen hundred this, um, this coming fall.

And I think part of that has been just a laser focus on saying, "What is the message that we want to get out to students?" And so we created something called The Avenue Experience, where we're essentially saying to every student, The Avenue is the road that leads into the St.

As you look, say, 10 years into the future, what does Saint Mary's College become? What, what do you see? What is your vision for the college?

But is there one challenge that really is the most daunting challenge for a university president today?

I would say it really is this idea of differentiation.

We as colleges and universities, in some ways, we're always going to be more alike than we're going to be drastically different.

But how to get a message to your own public? You're doing something special and you're doing it in a particular way.

And I think that's been one of the things that has perhaps led to this enrollment success that we're enjoying right now, where we've had 16 percent enrollment growth since 2021.

We're up well over 200 students in our total student body from about 1381 to over 1600 this this coming fall.

And I think part of that has been just a laser focus on saying, what is the message that we want to get out to students? And so we created something called the Avenue Experience, where we're essentially saying to every student, the avenue is the road that leads into the St.

As you look, say, 10 years into the future, what does St. Mary's College become? What do you see? What is your vision for the college?