A college education today ensures higher earnings tomorrow.

Thank you for your interest in Omega College. I hope that this web site will encourage you to take that interest forward, to apply for admission, and then once here to achieve high academic success in your chosen field of study. We regard your interest in us as trust. And we promise to respond by investing in you. After all, our business is your success. The rest of this web site offers information on how we encourage student success through our admissions program, our scholarship funds, our challenging academic seminars and our point of scholar development which centers on our writing program. And we will go on learning how to improve our program, to make better investments in our students. No doubt we still have much to learn. Meanwhile, you owe it to yourself to think carefully about the investments in higher education that you, and probably your family, will be making, investments of time, of money, and of effort. Your investments of money are important. For one thing, they buy you warm welcome and also help, when you need it, from people like me, from the university's faculty and staff. Be sure you get your money's worth from your classroom professors, from honors college and main campus advisors, from career counselors, from all of us. Let your mottoes be "pester your professors" and "disturb your deans" and "query your counselors. But the rest of your education, all of the rest of it, cannot be purchased. Instead, it has to be produced by you. And that is why, in the end, the student is not a consumer. And my advice is, don't be satisfied by anyone who calls you a consumer and leaves it at that. You do have some important consumer rights, but your proper role, as a student, is far more complex and far more powerful than that of a mere consumer. The student is an apprentice, a producer, a learner, a teacher, a translator. A student is a reader, a writer, a speaker, a critic, a calculator, an experimenter. What you must really invest in, in short, is the wonderful privilege of becoming a partner in your own education.