Spring Break
Hogan Looks Forward To Changes In UConn's Future
Kate King
Issue date: 5/11/08 Section: News
"This has not been just a year of study on [Hogan's] part but a year of already developing momentum," Rowe said. "I would characterize it as a year of due diligence and discovery…and at the same time already tangible progress in a number of areas."
Hogan has also been happy with the rapport he has been able to establish with the student body at UConn, which he has interacted with on bus rides to football games, during a Halloween function at Gulley Hall and most recently at the Carriage House, Celeron and X-Lot parties during Spring Weekend.
"I've just had very happy relationships with the student population here," Hogan said.
Melissa Poulin, a French and history major who will be graduating today, has noticed this relationship that Hogan has developed with the student body.
"He seems much more approachable than President Austin," Poulin said. "He seems to be really going out of his way to be more accessible and to understand the student mindset, which is a good thing."
Hogan is looking forward to today's graduation ceremony, which will be his first as UConn's president because the winter 2007 graduation was cancelled due to bad weather. Hogan will attend the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and also the graduate program ceremonies.
As his first graduating class leaves UConn and enters into graduate school or the working world, Hogan hopes that departing students will take away from the university a curiosity and desire to learn and explore. He wants graduates to have basic skills but also an ability to investigate and adapt because "these are the skills that make us human," he said.
Contact Kate King at Katherine.King@UConn.edu.
Hogan has also been happy with the rapport he has been able to establish with the student body at UConn, which he has interacted with on bus rides to football games, during a Halloween function at Gulley Hall and most recently at the Carriage House, Celeron and X-Lot parties during Spring Weekend.
"I've just had very happy relationships with the student population here," Hogan said.
Melissa Poulin, a French and history major who will be graduating today, has noticed this relationship that Hogan has developed with the student body.
"He seems much more approachable than President Austin," Poulin said. "He seems to be really going out of his way to be more accessible and to understand the student mindset, which is a good thing."
Hogan is looking forward to today's graduation ceremony, which will be his first as UConn's president because the winter 2007 graduation was cancelled due to bad weather. Hogan will attend the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and also the graduate program ceremonies.
As his first graduating class leaves UConn and enters into graduate school or the working world, Hogan hopes that departing students will take away from the university a curiosity and desire to learn and explore. He wants graduates to have basic skills but also an ability to investigate and adapt because "these are the skills that make us human," he said.
Contact Kate King at Katherine.King@UConn.edu.
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