Welcome From The Dean
Alfred Lawrence Lorenz, Ph.D.
I hope you are settling into the new semester.
This fall, 132 freshman and transfer students have joined our college. Each time I met a group of our new College of Social Sciences students during orientation week, I was struck by the number of them from out of state. They come from Arizona, New Jersey, Missouri, Arkansas, Virginia, Tennessee, Illinois, Washington, D.C., and just about every place else in the country. We have many from abroad, too---from Guatemala and Mexico, to Canada, Germany, and Australia. All are here because they wanted not only an excellent education, but also to be part of New Orleans' recovery.
That speaks well of us and, especially, of them.
They will learn much here. In an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times, Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson, a New Orleans native, wrote, "For students, few places will offer a more enriching education in what it means to be a useful citizen than Tulane, Xavier, Loyola, and the other New Orleans colleges."
Many of our social sciences faculty have also returned to campus after being scattered around the world during the summer. Among them, Dr. Cathy Rogers, associate professor of public relations, had a summer fellowship at The Advertising Council in New York. Dr. Lydia Voigt, University Distinguished Professor and professor of sociology and chair of the sociology department, taught in Loyola's new China program in Beijing and Shanghai. Dr. Angel Parham, assistant professor of sociology, inaugurated a successful study abroad program in the Bahamas.
It’s the faculty and students alike who make this college excel.
I wish you the best of luck this semester, and look forward to seeing you around campus.