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Fall 2017 Convocation · Bowie State

University

Seated among you are students studying Changing demographics
cybersecurity, systems and computer Technology that is changing exponentially
science that could create new ways to Globalization
maintain safety for our businesses and Security threats
organizations to combat the cyber attacks Climate and sustainability challenges
that are threatening our economic and
financial systems and structures. …to name a few changes.

So, today I ask that students, faculty, staff,
With the challenges facing our nation and alumni, and friends of the university, to
the world today, we need each and every commit to contributing and ensuring that we
one of you like Christa McAuliffe and Toni
Braxton and the many others who made an each do what we can to be the change that
impact on the lives of others and their we seek for our BSU and meet the
challenges whatever they might be, head on.
communities—striving for excellence.

We are good, but we can excel and reach
I too am looking forward to the opportunity higher than where we are today. The vision
for me to contribute my own skills,
knowledge and abilities to an institution that that I am striving to make a reality is for a
prides itself in how we educate students, an brighter tomorrow so that our graduates are
prepared to enter the workforce and make a
institution with an incredible history and difference, go into our communities and
legacy of providing outstanding education tackle the challenges that face us as a
and striving to ensure access for
generations who could otherwise not have nation and as a global community.
achieved their hopes and dreams for a better
life. My vision for Bowie State University is to
build on strength and excellence together as
a community of learners to:
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?

Fall 2017 Convocation · Bowie State University