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Great university. Wonderful campus
I've really been impressed with the facilities across campus I've done a lot
of walking I've had each year the deans
what we ran a lot of their space and I've been impressed with the high
quality
of the teaching space. I'm very impressed with the high quality of the research
space.
I've been very enthusiastic about that
obviously the campus is beautiful. I can't wait
for football. I haven't been at a university with football since I was a
graduate student and so
I will be at the stadium I'm really looking forward to that
As the incoming Provost
my message is we are a learning community we are working together is a
learning community
I consider myself a part of the learning community
I'm here I'm learning a lot of things world will learn a lot of things we are
going to have to work together
as a community I think the community part is very important in what we're
doing
our goal has got to be continuous improvement we need to improve what
we're doing in the classroom we need to
improve what we're doing across campus we need to improve what we're doing in
business systems
everywhere and at the end as long as we keep
our focus on the outcomes with our students I think we'll be in good shape
And the the other issue the other message to everyone is
to: I'm hoping I'm planning to have fun here
so far I'm having fun I hope that I can say that after multiple years that I'm still
having fun
working here at CMU and being part of the CMU community
I collect fountain pens which is not
the most common hobby in the world but it is something that a number of us do
there are other people, actually I do know some of the people in michigan
that collect fountain pens it's an interesting hobby it's
I'm not only a collector, I'm a user
we know whats important to us in life so
you know we have a house but it's not really important in life you know our
relationship is much more important
so we we sort of keep things in balance that way and she likes to sit
behind me on the motorcycle
We will just go out for a three hour ride on a weekend
and that is really keeping the balance there