I'd like to help fill that void with our graduates. It will seek to revitalize and expand research at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, while redoubling our emphases on teaching and learning, lifelong learning, and outreach programs. It will include the exploration of new ways of integrating learning and living through innovative residential communities, as well as the strategic expansion and renewal of our campus, including the construction of the new campus center, academic building and parking facility. Making a significant leap forward will take considerable resources. Much of this fiscal fuel will come from the upcoming campaign.
Many institutions use their campaigns to make incremental changes.
But if WPI takes that approach, I believe it will become a traditional institution and will lose its edge in project-based programs, in global programs, and in the other features and characteristics that make this university distinctive. This is an opportunity that occurs rarely in the life of an institution.