As the visiting team reads this document, a fundamentally new administrative structure will be in place, and a generational change in administrators will have recently taken place. More importantly, our faculty, the heart of the university, is beginning to reshape the curriculum for better-prepared students, embracing a new research environment, and adapting to educational circumstances in which borders and limitations of all types have changed and will continue to do so. Plainly put, the regimen of self-study demanded by the Higher Learning Commission could not have come at a better time for Indiana University Bloomington. We have, we think, made the most of the opportunity.

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