POSSIBILITIES

WHERE TRANSFORMATION HAPPENS

by Dr. Susanna L. Baxter, 26th President of LaGrange College

As the college hosts new-student orientations this summer, I enjoy watching our incoming freshmen begin to build their first college friendships. We encourage them to embrace the opportunity to get to know their future classmates and to engage in student life. It’s what we’re all about.

I often tell prospective students and parents that it would be easy to spend your college career with your head pointed down into your phone. If that is your choice, however, you’d be missing out on the most valuable parts of the experience—the power of relationships.

As I recall my own college years, I think about the people who made a difference: the peers who helped me grow into my best self, and the professors who believed in me enough to help me believe in myself.

It’s in relationships like these where the transformation of college takes place. Yes, classroom content is vital, but without deep and meaningful relationships, real transformation doesn’t happen.

Join me in offering a prayer for the Class of 2028, that they will embrace all that the LaGrange College experience has to offer them.