Welcome to Miami University. You will be joining a community of serious, talented scholars who play an active role in providing challenging intellectual experiences for an exceptionally promising student body. Miami is especially distinguished by the effort devoted to and the resulting quality of our undergraduate and graduate teaching program.

I hope that you will attend the new faculty orientation workshop on Wednesday, August 20, 2008. This workshop will provide you with a valuable introduction to Miami and to the expectations we have for our faculty. For the past two years, we have focused on providing ever greater intellectual challenges to our students. Surveys indicate that students have responded positively to our ambitious standards.

Sincerely yours,

Jeffrey Herbst
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs