As President, I am delighted to know that you are exploring the benefits of attending Catawba College. Students who want to make the most of their college experience can find many opportunities here. The campus is a beautiful place to study and play, to explore your potential, to find your purpose, and to chart your future.

• We provide multiple performance spaces in theatre and music.
• We provide an extraordinary environmental science center set on the edge of a 189-acre nature preserve adjacent to campus.
• We provide outstanding athletic facilities, including a new stadium and new field house with well-equipped athletic training rooms
• We provide a campus-wide computer network with internet connections in each dormitory room as well as several in computer laboratories, classrooms, and library facilities.
• The Omwake-Dearborn Chapel, newly air-conditioned, provides a dramatic setting for worship, community gatherings, and ceremonial occasions.

The Student Affairs staff coordinates programs to ensure your health care, your safety and security on campus, and your social and intellectual growth and development.

Student leaders organize and present varied social activities and bring entertaining performers to campus:

• Catawbapalooza
• Late Night Catawba
• Hypnotists, Comedians and musicians
• Movie Nights
• Karaoke

Faculty are here to challenge you, advise you, and teach you well.

• Your academic advisor meets with you individually before each semester opens as well as other times to guide your progress toward graduation.
• Faculty offer challenging and engaging courses, including various First-Year Seminars.
• Faculty design and lead a College Honors Program, living-learning programs based in residence-hall groups, and study abroad opportunities.

In short, Catawba College is a dynamic and engaging community of teachers and learners. You will make life-long friends here. You will discover the value of learning in a community that cares. You will become a part of a tradition of excellence here. If you want to become a member of such a community, please visit the campus and find out for yourself how Catawba College could be the place for you to have a great college experience.

Dr. W. Craig Turner, President