A new direction

I am a senior and have little personal stake in Cornerstone's choice of a new president. However, that doesn't mean I am without an opinion. I would like to see CU head in a new direction and bring in a president that will lead them that way. I feel the school has become too focused on the business side of our education and is moving away from a strong liberal arts emphasis. As a history major, I feel like a tiny majority in a sea of business and communications majors. I even feel this somewhat as an English major.

For a less personal example: music students are relegated to a old, tiny building. Sure, a new building is promised, but not before a new track and soccer field (that's another blog entry).

Maybe it's just me, but majors such as business and communications seem to have the run of the place, getting the best opportunities and the fancy gadgets (all of us have walked past the flat-screen TVs in Bolthouse). The large numbers of business majors obviously dictate these things, but perhaps this seeming favoritism is the cause of the comparatively smaller numbers of history and English lit majors.

I would like to be able to say I earned my History-English degree from an institution that has not become a Christian version of Davenport University. A president who will put money into the English, history, music, and other such programs will save Cornerstone from the fate of becoming a business college.