For newly arrived, continuing and future CIBU Students, Family, Faculty, Staff and Friends…
Welcome to CIBU…the institution where future global leaders are discovered, and discover themselves. San Diego, America’s jewel of the American Pacific, is an exquisitely beautiful, safe and stimulating city in southern California. We are proud you are part of Team CIBU and our university community.
This academic year will be CIBU’s most creative and productive ever, and you are part of that excitement. We are introducing new programs and courses and will be launching the CIBU Arts Initiative this Fall by expanding diversity in our student population who are incredibly imaginative and creative people. This year, we have begun the theme of “Programs, Partners, and People of Distinction.” You will feel the excitement.
As I wrote in my own blog in Aug. 2010 (www.myblueflash.blogspot.com), “Everything (Here) Is Connected” and we are all part of this huge global family. There is no going back. The internet is part of our minute-to-minute world. CIBU and its portal website, www.cibu.edu, is a big part of this picture and personalized to serve you better.
A new school year brings new challenges and opportunities. We realize each student has his and her own dreams, sometimes, not always part of this huge public, connected world, but CIBU is here to help you with the unique discovery of destiny that is very personal and dear to each of us.
Our work here together will be the foundation for a life filled with global service and leadership. We’re planting the seed that will create dreams, goals, and passions for you and your families. Our team is committed to help culture, grow, feed and watch over those cherished dreams that will begin to blossom during your time at CIBU. That small seed of a dream that is in each of us is just like CIBU was for me more than 15 years ago. This dream for me became real…and I am so proud to say, today, welcome to this world that has become CIBU, one of America’s truly independent, globally-focused and quality institutions where dreams grow into reality.