This community has not really come together before, and that might be one of the most exciting byproducts of this whole campaign. It is one of his primary goals to broaden and intensify alumni involvement with the university. You have to look at the university like any other organization. It is a living, evolving institution, and it is the people who make the difference. If you want change, people have to be behind it.
Someone has to do something to effect that change.
They feel lost to the university, and we want to find them. We hope they will recognize that this university belongs to them and that they will support it in meaningful ways. Maybe because I was young and somewhat shy, I don't remember the involvement of faculty in all these student projects. He recalls a speech incoming students heard at orientation, that set a cautionary tone. Look to your right, look to your left.