Ten weeks. Twelve books to read, three papers to write, and a class presentation. Is your heart beating a little faster yet?

Once you’ve attended the University of Chicago, you never quite get the quarter system out of your—well, your system. Following this issue, the print edition of the University of Chicago Magazine will itself return to a quarterly publication schedule, arriving in your mailbox four times a year instead of six. The sentimental value of this change is to put all of us, readers and editors alike, back on the only academic calendar worth its salt, echoing the rhythm of life on the quads with an issue to read each fall, winter, spring, and summer, beginning this November.

In practical terms, the change will make us more responsive to the ways we increasingly see alumni keep in touch with the Magazine and each other, and it will make us better stewards of the University’s resources. Though we will forgo a fraction of our print pages, we’ll continue to offer you the same rich lineup of stories about alumni, faculty, and students as before. In features, alumni essays, UChicago Journal, Course Work, and other occasional departments, and of course Alumni News, you can count on a plentiful reading list each quarter.

And not only then: Some stories will now be published first online, and we’ll be brainstorming even more ways of delivering the sounds, sights, and stories of Hyde Park and the worldwide University community to you. In addition to our website, please connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, YouTube, and Goodreads.

More imminently, we are making changes to the UChicago News for Alumni and Friends e-newsletter that some of you receive every other week. Beginning the last week of July, those of you in that category will find a new e-newsletter in your inbox: UChicago Short List. If you haven’t been receiving UChicago News but wish to get UChicago Short List, email us atuchicago-magazine@uchicago.eduand we’ll add you to the mailing list. Along with news about the University and its alumni, selected by the Magazine’s editors, you’ll also hear about opportunities to engage with the University and other alumni: ways to volunteer, to network, and to extend your UChicago education at Harper lectures and other events.

Any of those activities count toward the 125,000 alumni that the University hopes to get involved to meet the engagement goal of the University of Chicago Campaign: Inquiry and Impact. Making a gift also counts, and so does writing a letter to the Magazine, or sending alumni news (to your class correspondent if you’re a College graduate, or to us at uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu if you have a graduate or professional degree). There are many ways to engage—we hope you’ll choose all of the above.