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Pacific is about communication and connections. Meaning how we answer two questions: What's going on at FPU? and What does it mean to you, the reader?
When you remove Pacific from your mail box three times a year you can read now, read later or recycle immediately. We whose names grace the masthead on the previous page warmly thank each of you who choose solution one or two.
The mission of Pacific is to give readers a straightforward, accurate, thoughtful and lively view of university events, issues and people. Like any good statement of purposes, that can be interpreted several ways. The resulting discussion makes life, and we hope the magazine, interesting.
Communication and connections are a balancing act. Some things we at the university want readers to know, some things you readers have told us you want to know.
Complicating matters, there are more of you readers than there used to be—20,000 now. And you come from more places: alumni, parents of students, donors, members of the Pacific District Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Churches, other Mennonite colleges and universities, the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, community leaders, government and media folks and others I'm forgetting.
So what do you all want to know? Better yet, how do you want to know about it?
More people, especially the young adults that are the majority of FPU alumni, get their information from the Internet. The latest iteration of our website, coming this spring to fresno.edu, will offer new features to let you know what's happening on campus.
So what are you willing to wait maybe four months to know? What do you want to know now?
Here's your invitation to tell us what you want to see in Pacific and what you want to see on the website. My email address is wsteffen@fresno.edu and my mailing address is Wayne Steffen, Fresno Pacific University, 1717 S. Chestnut Ave., Fresno, CA 93702. I look forward to being overwhelmed by your response.