[CED/CD/EAT] Fwd: from Q&A with Pres R

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Subject: RE: from Q&A with Pres R

And another

What do you want homecoming attendees and visitors to know about how you’re going to differentiate your presidential legacy from the last president’s?

I’ve gotten to meet all the living former presidents, except for president Shelton. I haven’t gotten to meet him yet, but I’ve gotten to spend a lot of time talking to him. Those are big shoes to fill. I just hope that my legacy will be one that I was able to get people inspired and excited about the future, transform. Speak to all the former presidents, they will point to President John Schaefer. They all say that President Schaefer, who was president of our university at age 37, was the most transformational president in our history. And when I ask him about that, he says, “Yes, I was.” I don’t for a minute think that I’ll be as transformational as President Schaefer, but I’d like to be known as the person who really inspired and brought all the stakeholders at the university together to have a second transformation, if you will, in reference to Schaefer. [A transformation ] that we will bring people together, that we will educate in a different manner. I’m really a big fan of active learning and collaborative learning, so I’m hoping that we will buy into that methodology of education and also we’ll bring all of our great colleges together in a collaborative, cooperative way so that we will discover new knowledge, that we will have discovery of the next new process in human health, or in astronomy, or optical science, or economy — with these three disciplines coming together: physical, biological, and digital science.

I think we have an opportunity and a moment in time where the U of A is ready for something huge and transformational again, just as they were in the days of President Schaefer. And I hope that I’ll be known as the president who willed us to the Rose Bowl and won a national championship in multiple sports. So that’s a lot.

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Shane C Burgess
Vice President for Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension;
Dean, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences;
Director, Arizona Experiment Station

The University of Arizona
Forbes Building, Room 306 | 1140 E. South Campus Drive | P.O. Box 210036 Tucson, AZ 85721-0036
PHONE: 520.621.7621
EMAIL: sburgess at cals.arizona.edu<mailto:sburgess at cals.arizona.edu>

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Subject: from Q&A with Pres R

So what is your vision for the direction of the university?
I believe as a land-grant university we’ve got the opportunity to, and the responsibility to, look at all segments of the mission of the university, whether it be agriculture, whether it be human health, engineering, philosophy, the arts, humanity. We have such a broad and diverse mission. I believe we are positioned with all of our accomplishments, being one of the top 35 research universities that at the same time is very student-centric, that we have a tremendous opportunity and responsibility to leverage all of our assets together to prepare our students for a life of work in a rapidly changing world. I often reference the fourth industrial revolution, where there’s an emergence of physical science, biological science, digital science and the dramatic effect that this rapidly changing world is going to have on humanity and society. I think that the vision I have for the University of Arizona would be to step up over the next 10, 15, 20 years and be a global leader as we contemplate all of these changes, to prepare our students for a lifetime where they’ll have five, 10, 15 jobs in their lifetime, prepare them by giving them an education, the highest quality of education and skills that will allow them to be successful in the early stages of the fourth industrial revolution. However, I think we need to focus our research strategies around the collaborative efforts of the convergence of these three areas of expertise so that we can discover the next new thing, the next transformational technique, or service, or device, or process that will simply make the world a better place. I think we’ve got a great opportunity to do that.

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Shane C Burgess
Vice President for Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension;
Dean, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences;
Director, Arizona Experiment Station

The University of Arizona
Forbes Building, Room 306 | 1140 E. South Campus Drive | P.O. Box 210036 Tucson, AZ 85721-0036
PHONE: 520.621.7621
EMAIL: sburgess at cals.arizona.edu<mailto:sburgess at cals.arizona.edu>

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