People come to the Tyndale website in many different ways and from many different places. Some arrive through web searches, some from links on other websites – however they got here – we are glad they are here. Overall we had 147,215 pages viewed on our website in the month of October 2009.

Below is a highlight of some interesting places people came from.

• Over 30,000 page views originated from search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing.
• School finding sites such as schoolfinder.com, gradschoolfinder.com, canadian-universities.net, campusstarter.com, careercruising.com, studyincanada.com, fairs.naccap.org, crosscanadasearch.com, checusout.ca, cccu.org… accounted for about 1,200 pageviews
• Over 400 page views came from Seneca College – most of these would have come from http://www.senecac.on.ca/degreetransfer/guide/tyndale-university-college.html
• 357 page views came from links on Christian Careers Canada – a website run by Tyndale (www.christiancareerscanada.com)
• Almost 300 page views came through facebook
• ATS (ats.edu) brought 261 page views
• Links on denominational websites such as paonl.ca and agcofcanada.com accounted for about 200 page views
• Media sources such as Christian Herald, Christianity.ca, WDCX and Life 100.3 brought in over 300 page views
• 81 page views originated from the Ontario College of Teachers website (www.oct.ca)

I — along with a team from my church — will be heading to Africa on April 16th for a short term mission trip. We will be working with the Villages of Hope Africa in Kitwe Zambia installing/repairing a computer lab in a community school that serves over 700 kids. Some of these kids live right in the village orphanage (~170) while the majority come to the school from nearby shanty-towns.

First let me say — I have raised all my financial support! This is not a plea for financial help — but rather a plea for your prayers and a chance to answer the many questions I have been getting about my upcoming trip.

We do have a website put together if you would like more details about what we are doing. The site can be found at: www.mymission.ca/zambia

One of the things I am looking forward to the most is meeting 2 of our supported children. As a family we support 3 kids in Africa – 2 of those are in Zambia and 1 lives in the Village of Hope orphanage I am going to work at. The second attends the community school. I hope to meet both of these boys and will be bringing some special gifts for them.

I will be traveling from April 16th to May 3rd – I would deeply cherish your prayers for myself and my family while I am gone.

Noel-Levitz has recently released their latest E-expectations survey of 1,005 college-bound high school seniors in 2009. Rachael Reuben has written a great summary of the report which is available over at .eduGuru. If you would like to read the full report it is available on the Noel-Levitz website here.

Up From Last October Down From Last October

Overall Web Site Facts

• We had over 36,200 visits
• We had an average of 1170 visits per day with our highest day (20th) having 1600 visits
• We had 640,200 pages viewed by those visitors
• Visitors came from 127 different countries covering most continents
• The top 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) hit our web site to index our pages over 98,000 times
• 3.7% of our traffic came directly from search engines with Google alone accounting for over 13,000 hits

University College Future Student Micro-Site Facts

• We had about 2,500 visits
• We had an average of 79.97 visits per day
• We had 9,974 pages viewed by those visitors
• Visitors came from 71 different countries covering most continents
• 60.91% of the visitors were new visits
• Visitors used 6 different operating systems ranging from Windows and Mac to the iPhone and iPod Touch
• 60 people completed an inquiry form online
• 21 people registered for campus visits online

Seminary Future Student Micro-Site Facts

• We had about 1,600 visits
• We had an average of 49.90 visits per day
• We had 5,201 pages viewed by those visitors
• Visitors came from 59 different countries covering most continents
• 56.17% of the visitors were new visits
• 30 people completed an inquiry form online
• 20 people registered for campus visits online

Compiled November 5, 2008 by Andrew Smith, Admissions and Marketing

In November I will be speaking twice on Internet Safety and Awareness for Parents.

Honor Bound Men’s Dinner
Tuesday November 18, 2008 at 6:30pm
Cedarview Community Church, Newmarket

This event is combined with a dinner, tickets are $15
-sorry- Men only [map]

Alliston Christian School
Thursday November 20, 2008 at 7pm

This event is being presented as a free seminar primarily aimed at the parents and children from Alliston Christian School but all are welcome to attend. [map]

also see » www.mymission.ca/danger/

Jacob Mantle, Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS) President at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario, has been asked to resign following a recent Facebook comment posted on a friend’s wall. The photo was of two girls wearing scarves and sunglasses. The comment read “I like your Taliban picture”.

While I am sure his comments were intended to be a joke — they have sparked tension at Queen’s and have been labeled as racial and ethnic discrimination.

On a number of occasions I have had the opportunity to speak to our Tyndale freshmen students regarding Internet safety — helping them understand just how their remarks on a public web site may be damaging to their future. This is a prime example.

Mantle has made public apologies to the Queen’s community and is considering resigning from his position. If he refuses to resign he may face an impeachment process to have him removed.

This simple comment has caused great embarrassment to both him and Queen’s University and has stained the future of this student.

Read the Queen’s Journal Article

Tyndale Website Statistics are now available for viewing online. These statistics are primarily focused on our Future Students Micro-sites for the university & seminary. Other statistics are available upon request.