USD Magazine Summer 2010

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[ p r e s i d e n t ] Mary E. Lyons, PhD [ v i c e p r e s i d e n t o f u n i v e r s i t y r e l a t i o n s ] Timothy L. O’Malley, PhD [ a s s i s t a n t v i c e p r e s i d e n t o f p u b l i c a f f a i r s ]

Pamela Gray Payton grayp@sandiego.edu

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co-directors of the Center: Carlton Floyd, assistant professor of English, and Mayté Pérez-Franco, director of the United Front Multicultural Center. Professor Floyd was also appoint- ed Associate Provost for Inclusion and Diversity. The Center is now under development and will focus on these strategic directions: Diversity of Place, of People, of Pedagogy, of Life Experience and of Culture and Community. The University of San Diego has come a long way physi- cally, academically and socially since your arrival in 2003. What further progress do you anticipate for USD in the next several years? I hope that our readers will take a leisurely tour of our website — www.sandiego.edu — and discover the many, many ambitions of our College of Arts and Sciences, our professional schools and the School of Law. A dynamic university like ours requires that our students absorb both the wisdom of the past and participate in the discovery of new knowledge. To that end, each of our divi- sions has plans for developing programs, supporting faculty and student research, and, in some cases, renovating and expanding spaces to accommodate their creative work. Over the next five to seven years, this trajectory toward greater academic excellence will continue, with correspond- ing development of programs that enhance student life, including expanding the fruitful collaborations between academic affairs and student affairs that has resulted in superb programs for first and second year students. Related initiatives that are directed toward moving from “good to great” include achieving the goals of our Sports and Recreation Master Plan and increasing our network of alumni whose involvement is so critical to the future growth and development of their alma mater.

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[ e d i t o r / s e n i o r d i r e c t o r ] Julene Snyder julene@sandiego.edu

[ s e n i o r a r t d i r e c t o r ] Barbara Ferguson barbaraf@sandiego.edu

C O N T R I B U T O R S

[ w r i t e r s ] Ryan T. Blystone Tom Cleary Carol Cujec Nathan Dinsdale Mikki Halpin Amy Keyishian Justin McLachlan Trisha J. Ratledge Anthony Shallat ’10

[ p h o t o g r a p h e r s ] Nick Abadilla Luis Garcia Fred Greaves John Harrington Tim Mantoani Brock Scott Marshall Williams

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