NEW FACULTY SERIES

[The Spring Seminar] was inspiring and insightful. I feel that it is a great privilege to be on the Brigham Young University faculty. You have helped me to focus my efforts in the right direction.

[The Spring Seminar] was one of the most uplifting experiences I have ever had.

I was surprised and, frankly, overwhelmed by the quality of the experience [of the Spring Seminar]. It was informative, interesting, and deeply inspiring.

[The Spring Seminar] was definitely a worthwhile experience and should become a part of every new faculty member's training here at BYU.

I can't believe I'm getting paid to go to it! It was a true spiritual and intellectual treat.

I sense it will have a profound impact on the overall quality of the faculty here after five or ten years.

This is an important statement by the administration that they value us as new faculty and want to see us succeed. I also very much enjoyed the opportunity for interaction with other new faculty to get a sense of perspective about what we are about and how to meet the challenges at hand. I have some very close friends who are also new faculty, and my relationships with them has been most helpful, but it was good to get a sense of reality from a sample of more than just 2 or 3 people.

The seminar was a great blessing in my life at BYU. I think it took me almost a year of doing my very best, yet still feeling I could do/be more as a professor to be ready to receive the inspired messages I received during the seminar. Even though my expectations for my own performance were raised during the ... experience, I came away with a conviction that I am, indeed, here because the Lord wants me to be here, that I have something unique to contribute to the university community, and that with sustained and focused effort on the things that matter most I will achieve continuing status and at the same time make progress in my own quest for excellence.

A deeply satisfying spiritual experience, which I did not really anticipate. The opportunity to interact closely with colleagues experiencing much the same sort of thing I am was enormously helpful.

Thank you, thank you! The seminar really helped me gain a better focus and has helped me to understand more fully the role of BYU and my relationship/responsibility to the institution.

It definitely cleared in my mind the purpose of BYU and my personal priorities here.

The greatest value of the seminar is that it sends a strong message to the faculty that the University CARES.

The seminar was a great help to my sense of feeling more organized and prepared for the many responsibilities I have as a new faculty member. I was buoyed up by conversations with other new faculty and senior faculty members, by the musical numbers and comments, by the sheer love and commitment to this university that every speaker expressed. I sailed through my dissertation defense because of the confidence and peace that the seminar had helped bring into my life.

Very beneficial conference. It was impressive to see the interest the university has in supporting new faculty. Very well done. I consider the seminar to be a very valuable and worthwhile experience.

I had a genuine spiritual experience at the seminar related to the mission of BYU, the role of our students/graduates in the world and in the Church, the essentially spiritual nature of what we are doing here, and my role.