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We were extraordinary fortunate to receive a
$25 million dollar gift from one of our
most generous alums, Rajen Kilachand,
to endow the Honors College and to make sure that it goes on in perpetuity.
It's amazing that after this gift of $25 million that
Mr. Kilachand has followed with a gift of $10 million that will allow us to renovate
what is now Shelton Hall.
Not only to have the administrative offices of the college in a central location,
but to have the students live together
and gives us the opportunity to have faculty and students meet outside of the classroom.
We are all living together so that when there is a history assignment,
I can just walk down the hall
and find my friends who are in international relations.
We're all there to help each other out
and give each other advice.
It's very much part of the rest of the university.
We expect to have
non-Kilachand students in the hall.
I think there are certain things you learn about each other
from being in class together.
But it's no substitute for the kind of closeness and intimacy
that the students develop with each other.
Education is going to be a key driver
of how we handle the future.
I was lucky to get education from a great country and a great institution
like BU.
And I know how it shaped me.
It was BU which made my mind become truly global.
Living in the residence halls with people from so many different places
really permeates your world view
and that changes the way you learn
and the way you live
and how you tend to act as you grow in your college life.
And the mission of the honors college is
to try to rethink and renew undergraduate education
combining some of the real classic virtues
of liberal education with modern approaches.
And the gift enables us to do things that we certainly would not have been able to do
under any other circumstances.
I think at the end you are going to produce a truly
renaissance person, true leaders of the world of tomorrow.