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Hello, my name is Bryan Albrecht, President of Gateway Technical College. It is my pleasure to introduce and welcome you to our college today.
On behalf of the staff, faculty and administration, we appreciate your interest in Gateway Technical College.
We know you have many choices in choosing your college and we thank you for selecting Gateway.
You are joining the over 25,000 students that participate in one of Gateway's over 65 degree programs.
As an online learner you're going to have an exciting road ahead of you. As you get a chance to search through our web and participate in interactions with our faculty, you will find tremendous amounts of resources available to you.
As an online learning student, I also encourage you to participate when you can in our campus activities. There are many student engagement programs that take place.
We have student organizations that you are welcome to join and community events that we encourage you to participate in. We also encourage you to send us your thoughts and ideas how to expand and improve the online learning environment.
Today's world is very different and I know that taking online courses can be challenging. I also encourage you to look at the resources available to you such as online registration, online chats with faculty, and virtual tours of the campuses.
As always, make sure that you take advantage of the great opportunity to create a very strong dialog with your instructor. That is the success to online learning to have that opportunity to interface with an instructor.
I'm sure you will make great friends with the fellow students just as you would on-campus.
The key to success is to develop dialogue with the instructor and develop a strong relationship.
I want to thank you again and welcome you one more time to your Gateway experience.