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President's Letter On Campus Theme For 2007-2008

Dear Campus Community,

Over the past years, our university theme has brought the campus community together at major activities and events. These events have resulted in dialogues both in and outside of our classrooms as well as allowed for all voices to be heard on significant issues: civility, social justice, civic engagement, and a the broad theme of global challenges and personal responsibility. During the 2006-2007 academic year, our university theme, Global Challenges and Personal Responsibility; Cultural Diversity, was supported by an impressive array of events, including presentations by Linda Chavez, Helen Thomas, Clarence Page, Reza Aslan, and Danny Glover; bi-monthly campus dialogues hosted by Western faculty in the University Union and the Art Gallery; and, through many activities organized by student organizations and departments.

President Goldfarb

I am pleased that we will continue our focus on Global Challenges and Personal Responsibility throughout the 2007 – 2008. This year we will focus on environmental sustainability. The University Theme Committee believes this focus demonstrates a commitment to our University’s values set forth in our strategic plan, Higher Values in Higher Education. We hope that faculty, staff and students will utilize the theme to impact campus-wide programming. I am hoping that we will again coordinate efforts by our University Theme Committee, First Year Experience program, faculty, staff and students, so that we can fully explore the global challenges and our personal responsibility in relationship to environmental sustainability.

Judith Dallinger, assistant provost for undergraduate studies, will continue to work with the University Theme Committee in conjunction with our First Year Experience program to ensure the development of shared and diverse experiences for the entire campus community. I want to express my appreciation to the University Theme Committee, under the leadership of Ann Comerford, director of Student Activities, and Matt Blankenship, Associate Professor of Psychology, for their efforts to continue to expand our programming. I look forward to seeing many of you at these events throughout the next year.

Sincerely,

Alvin Goldfarb
President