It's another avenue where faculty are looking at students and student eligibility. The league has received a few calls with questions about electronic sites.

(As) part of that proposal, they look at the faculty we would need, the student need, the industry need, what jobs are there, how supportive the industry is. They look at labs, at space.

Active scholars are uniquely attracted by a high-quality graduate school of arts and sciences. Faculty members consider the teaching and training of new generations of graduate students as their highest calling. They believe that working with graduate students maintains and develops their professional skills more effectively than any other activity. It may be the main reason for the great attraction of academic jobs. Laboratory scientists have told me that the opportunity to work with graduate students keeps them in the university. For them, other options would center on research in commercial laboratories, but there the principal investigator would be assisted by technicians, and that is considered a far less creative interaction.

This is what Baylor is all about, ... This is 2012 and it implements faculty expertise and it allows students to experience international culture, not only that, but a culture within a culture.

It's a way for students and faculty to kind of break that barrier between them.

With two in the second, we're getting lots of calls. We've talked to just about everyone in the league, and it seems as if more people are asking us if we want to move up rather than the other way around.