USD Annual Report 1980/81

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FROM THE PRESIDENT

BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 1980-1981

IS) The Most Reverend Leo T. Maher, D.D. Chairman of the Board Anita V. Figueredo, M.D. Vice Chairman of the Board Reverend Monsignor I. Brent Eagen

In considering the various messages which might appropriately be conveyed to our University constituents and friends in this second Annual Report, I recalled a question asked of me in a recent interview: what would I wish to see included in a report on the University in another decade. The answers I gave then focussed on two major areas: growth, both in academic programs and in campus facilities; and stature, the achievement of regional and national recognition for the excellence of this institution. As I review the year just passed, I have a •clear and strong sense of how capably, how dynamically we have already moved towards the accomplishments I would wish to report on in 1991. Each of the University's academic units has broken new ground, launching new programs such as the Organizational Skills Certification program and a number of interdisciplinary courses in the four professional schools . Each unit is engaged in a continuing, meticulous evaluation of curricula. Each is growing in terms of faculty members, faculty quality, and student enrollment. At the same time, our plans for campus development-needs created by average annual enrollment increases of 9%-are only a few months away from initial actualization, and we expect in the very near future to see construction begin on the new School of Business Administration building, the executive conference center, the expanded library, and the student center. Regional and national recognition of the University's growing stature come in many forms . We see, for example, the growing number of significant grants coming to our campus from such sources as the National Endowments, the National Institutes of Mental Health, the W. K. Kellogg, Weingart, Ahmanson, Irvine, Kresge, and Scaife foundations. We see the cachet of prestigious accrediting agencies such as the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, and I am fully confident that the National League for Nursing will grant accreditation to the graduate program in the School of Nursing, as it already has to the baccalaureate program of that school. Our faculty members are serving in offices of critical importance not only to the region and the nation but to the world at large . But in the final analysis, the University's finest achievement is what it has always been and, I trust, always shall be: the ongoing creation of an academic community where young men and women may grow, not just intellectually but spiritually, culturally, physically, and socially-to become fully human in the most profound sense of that word. "Whole" and "holy" come from the same etymological root. The implications of that fact inform the University's approach to what we call holistic education and our grounding in the traditions of the Roman Catholic faith.~

Secretary of the Board Mr. J. Philip Gilligan Treasurer of the Board Manuel Barba, M.D.

Mr. Thomas C. Barger Mrs. Wilson B. Baugh Reverend Robert T. Callahan Dr. H . John Cashin Mr. James W. Colachis Mrs. Helen K. Copley Sister Frances Danz, RSC} Mr. Daniel W. Derbes Mrs . William G. Duflock Mrs . Ernest O. Ellison Mr. Kim Fletcher Mr. Charles M. Grace Mrs . Philip Y. Hahn Mr. Bruce R. Hazard Dr. Author E. Hughes Mr. Peter J. Hughes Mr. Arthur H. Kaplan Edmund L. Keeney, M.D. Mr. Tawfiq N . Khoury Mrs . Ray Kroc Sister Rita Maginn, RSCJ Mr. Douglas F. Manchester Mr. George M. Pardee, Jr. Mr. Leland S. Prussia Mr. 0 . Morris Sievert

Reverend Monsignor William D. Spain RADM Gerald E. Thomas, USN (Ret.) Mr. A. Eugene Trepte Mr. Richard P. Woltman Mr. Walter J. Zable

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