Our goal is to get better students and send a message that these things really matter. The great students will get in, anyway. This is about the middle.

Some students are more conventional learners ... [while] some are more practical learners. I'd like to work with faculty and students in order to enhance the teaching and learning experience.

[After graduation, he encourages students to pursue their interests, despite external temptations.] Find what you really love, ... Don't go just for the social prestige or the money. Not that money isn't important, but the people who are doing things they really love are much happier.

[The new dean urges students not to sacrifice friends for studies.] There's a tendency for students to say, 'Right now I need to pay attention to my work,' and so they blow off building personal relationships, ... Don't do that - finding the time will never get any easier, and that is a really important part of life.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

For us, the direct benefit we think will be to introduce a wider range of students to all of the opportunities that are in aviation.