I would like to see a "last message forum post" on the homepage(with time and date).
This way I could see if there were any NEW posts before going through the steps of login, click on message forum, scroll to bottom of page.
Sort of the same thing as classmate profile.... date
but message forum post.... time,date

Rick will be implementing threaded message forums on your site, much like you see here. The main forum screen has all the latest posts, times, etc. Numerous schools have tons of forum activity thus for them something on the home page would just be clutter (i.e. it would be updating literally all the time). All of the latest post information on the main forums page is a happy medium though.