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So, today I ask that students, faculty, staff, alumni, and

friends of the university, to commit to contributing and

ensuring that we each do what we can to be the change that

we seek for our BSU and meet the challenges whatever they

might be, head on.

We are good, but we can excel and reach higher than where

we are today. The vision that I am striving to make a reality is

for a brighter tomorrow so that our graduates are prepared to

enter the workforce and make a difference, go into our

communities and tackle the challenges that face us as a

nation and as a global community.

My vision for Bowie State University is to build on strength

and excellence together as a community of learners to:

Preserve the lasting legacy of Bowie State University as the rst Historically
Black Institution in the State of Maryland.

Continue to build academic excellence that you see and experience in the

classrooms and across the campus.
Create curricular and co-curricular opportunities supportive and engaging

of 21st generation of learners.

Encourage and support the diversity of learners enrolled at BSU.
Create new partnerships in our local and global communities to connect us

to the world.

Develop new and distinctive programs that uniquely de ne us as an
institution.

Hold ourselves accountable and develop scally sound models, metrics and
be able to communicate to our public all of the value we have here at BSU;

and to ensure the viability of this institution for the next 150 years.

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