Fairleigh Dickinson University Teaneck - Cygnus Yearbook (Teaneck, NJ)

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board of fellows Behind the formulation of new plans for the University stands the Board of Fellows. Composed of business and industrial leaders, this group of men and women provide guidance and direction for the development of the campuses, each according to its own need. Since the needs of each campus diHer, the Board is divided into three committees. In this manner the com- puses are dealt with most emciently. 181

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odvvard t.t. xx'illianls university trustees Indicative of the responsibility placed in this groups' hands is the title-Boord of Trustees. These men have been with the University from its birth and have done much to nurture it to its present stage of de- velopment. In their hands lies the responsibility for University Funances, land, and investments. Their wise di- rection in these areas has guided the expansion of our campus. Their continual guidance will assure our continual growth. dr. harold 1. 810311 henry p. becton sarnuel j. silber'man fairloigh s. dickinson. jr. 180

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h 4 message from the president Each year blends into the next one, and it is difficult to limit con- sideration of any aspect of growth to one particular year. The 1964-1965 year, however, has been emerging as one of dramatic growth and of thrilling development. Because of the university policy on sabbatical leave, more of our faculty than ever before have been traveling and lecturing abroad. Many books and articles have been published, and I have been impressed by the professional efforts of our staff. As the Committee on the Future closed its sessions, the maior portion of its recommendations was being put into the action. In many other institutions this dreaming into the future remains purely dreaming. In our case, the Trustees have transplanted most of the recommendations into reality. For those that could not be eFiected immediately because of money, the Trustees have set up a long range $25,000,000 drive for funds that would eventually mean the realization of brick and mortar proiects. Even as I am writing, the plans for some of these buildings are being drawn up. We shall probably see them built within two or three years. One outgrowth of the Committee on the Future was the one-year management study made by an outside team of experts to stand- ardize business and management procedures on the three cam- puses. h e v . I a 9- JV . :a 2X- -lL'Pgt; tq' ' i 4:sz Wm. xwv - .ujr t'u 182 I - .W :C'tt a;u mugtf'egttg iu s $3 Wuthun -nn 'Q 4'5.th I v university president d r. peter sammartino .I ll; We are proud of our University Council which, as far as we know, is the most democratic and the most efiective such organization in any multiple campus institution in the United States. Edward Williams College in Hackensack, made possible by a gift from Mr. Fairleigh S. Dickinson, started with 130 students. Why an experimental two-year college? We believe that in about twenty years, the pattern of higher education will be divided into two parts: the first two years followed by a three-year period leading directly to the Master of Arts. Edward Williams College is ex- perimenting with a purely liberal arts curriculum, with tri-weekly convocations on the persistent problems of living, and with an enriched out-of-class cultural activities program. Wroxton Abbey in England is being prepared to receive its first students in l965-maiors in English literature who will be studying for their Master's degree in the most picturesque and historic region of England. This too may establish a new trend. Imagine the impact if one hundred other universities each established a center in some foreign country. Graduates of American colleges would then have a choice of one hundred centers for foreign study. And so, another year rolls by and Fairleigh Dickinson University becomes a little stronger academically and physically.