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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP with a kid at CNU.  We just got a letter stating kid had made dean's list.  As we talked about it, my kid said "cool - the guy that signed the letter (a Dean :lol: ) I met at the President's House Reception - we talked about my major, he told me his experience and then encouraged me to pursue it and to feel free to drop by to talk to him any time.  I've seen him around campus and he always says hi."  This honestly shouldn't be that big of a deal, but given my other kids experiences at their respective DCUM approved schools, this is highly unusual and speaks to the culture at CNU.[/quote]

We attended CNU's orientation last week. We were impressed by the faculty involvement with students beyond the classroom. I suppose it's easy to think this is all optics for parents. It's good to read a post here that shows this faculty involvement is reality.[/quote]

We also went to orientation recently and thought it was really helpful for both parents and students. It was low key, busy, pretty serious for the parents at least, my student met a lot of new people and is really excited. [b]One thing I noticed was a lack of school cheers, cheerleaders, and other booster type stuff.[/b] They mentioned athletics and marching band a couple times, and has information sessions for those involved. They encouraged us to attend parents weekend and everything had a captain theme, but they did not hype up the sports teams like I would expect a large school would. They made a bigger deal out of the presidential leadership scholars I thought. [/quote]

We saw a lot of that with the Crew Leaders. Since they had four separate orientation sessions, I am guessing the school opted to not bring the cheerleaders/flag squad in for four weeks and instead had the crew leaders.

https://cnu.edu/orientation/freshman/settingsail/[/quote]

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