The Year 2000 is a year of wonderful promise for the University of Rochester. It is also a seminal time for us to take stock of where we've come from and where we are going.
Universities are timeless legacies to society.
Yet, despite the durability of universities, it is clear that the University of Rochester has changed dramatically over the past 150 years, and necessarily will change further during the coming years, century, and millennium. By the time of W. Allen Wallis's presidency, Rochester was defined as one of the small group of distinguished private national universities. We remain a strong reminder that, through focus and having the right values, one can achieve distinction as a university without relentless growth. We already see the exceedingly productive interplay of these two strands in the College, where its innovative curriculum, Quest courses, workshops, and focus on undergraduate research take inspired nurturing from both our size and our traditions of scholarship. No doubt, we will do even more as these historical threads are woven together.