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I too am looking forward to the opportunity for me to

contribute my own skills, knowledge and abilities to an

institution that prides itself in how we educate students, an

institution with an incredible history and legacy of providing

outstanding education and striving to ensure access for

generations who could otherwise not have achieved their

hopes and dreams for a better life.

Barack Obama once said “Change will not come if we wait for

some other person or some other time. We are the ones

we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

The world is changing dramatically and that change

challenges us as a university to think differently, creatively,

and innovatively in how we deliver education.

Incremental change will not do. We must race forward if we

are to achieve and continually maintain excellence.

Those reasons for our race to excellence?

Changing demographics

Technology that is changing exponentially

Globalization
Security threats

Climate and sustainability challenges

…to name a few changes.

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