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It’s our faculty who’ve designed this. This is not some grand scheme the Dean has designed. It’s our faculty who really have designed the fact that the program needs to be applications based, applications oriented, and highly applied.

The nature of the classroom, where it’s very easy if all you need to do is lecture and give tests, then the interaction between the faculty member and the students does not have to be phenomenal. But if you’re going to ask the students to go out and do, they’re going to run into problems all the time that they have no idea how to solve, and the faculty know that. And therefore by definition that brings the students and the faculty together, they have to be talking. Whether it’s talking in their offices, or it’s talking twenty-four seven by email or whatever the means are, getting the students out and introducing them to problems that they can’t really solve on their own means that the faculty is prepared to really support those students and to educate them and help them learn in the best possible way.