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Engaging students from the start

Engage students from day one -- do that, and you'll have them for life, feels Nick Bontis, the new director of undergraduate programs in the DeGroote School of Business. "It is important to provide as engaging an experience as possible for our first-year students," says Bontis, who has organized a first-year welcome reception on Tuesday, Nov. 2 in Celebration Hall, Kenneth Taylor Hall basement, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. "From our first point of communication with students when we recruit them in high school, to the correspondence we have with them over the summer, to Welcome Week in September, we have found that this whole experience that students have is extremely important. We've learned alumni participation starts from day one."