For those of you visiting the campus for the first time, please come back in a few years. Our landscape will change. Several new buildings are on line for construction, and many more are to be renovated. Private funds will allow us to do more and to be better. We have the faculty and the students.
Time is the only missing element.
My duty as chancellor is to keep the lights on and to celebrate the joy and achievement in studying the arts. I must tell you that if I have to sacrifice one, I would rather be without lights than to be without joy. Had I remained in California, I might have had that choice. To President Broad, the UNC Board of Governors, the NCSA Board of Trustees, the faculty, staff and students, thank you for allowing me the opportunity to serve as your chancellor. To be a preeminent conservatory for the arts will require changes of culture and priorities.