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Presidential Spotlight Dr. Lloyd H. Elliott Cherry Tree: You ' ve been the president of the University forever twenty years now. As far as you know, your tenure will be ending in the next few years. How do you hope to be remembered? Elliott: Well, I ' d like to feel that the University made some progress while I was here, and 1 think it has. And Ed like to be remembered in the sense that it ' s a better institution educationally, that the academic program for a student that comes here is indeed better than it w r as twenty years ago, that it ' s first-rate. That the experience is first rate compared with the best universities throughout the country. And I think there ' s a lot of evidence to support that kind of an observation. I ' m one of those who would like to be remembered as having had a part in achieving that on behalf of G.W. Cherry Tree: Is there a particular moment or a particular accom- plishment in the last twenty years that really stands out? Elliott: I would have to say the building and the strengthening of our libraries. You realize that we have a new law library, a new medical library, and a new university library. A whole lot of new resources now, which we didn ' t have twenty years ago. And also that the library is really the heart of the institution. My point, seriously, is that now technology is coming into the library. Domitory rooms are going to be equipped to handle computer readouts. You can find out what you want from the library hy punching the keyboard in the dormitory. Maybe not in every rtx m, hut by walking down the hall to the study room! So when you ask what Em proud of, 1 think that ' s something that goes to the hear! of the so-called learning experience, and the more accessible it can be the more enriching it can be. Cherry Tree: What are some of the things you still think are wrong with G.W ? How are you Irving to reconcile these wrongs? Elliott: I want to do two things. I want to focus on stronger academ- ics, that is, faculty, and keep pushing the admission standards for students up, and next year I think we ' ll he able to take another step up in terms of admission standards. And w hat this means is stronger students and stronger faculty. And those are the two ingredients of the best education that can be provided in my opinion. Cherr ' Tree: What is the procedure to go about actually doing that? Just saying that you ' re going to accept fewer students of higher quality is different than actually financially being able to absorb that. Elliott: Well, as the financial base of the institution is improved, the institution becomes less and less dependent on tiution, and again, can push admission standards up. Next year, we ' re going to admit 200 fewer freshmen than we have this year. And, in all probability, we ' re going to have more applications from which to choose. So, that ' s going to more the notch up. Cherry Tree: How would you compare this year ' s senior class to senior classes of years past? Elliott: My impression is that, year by year, more and more G.W. graduates are going to law school, med school, MBA programs, further graduate work, Ph.D. programs, and so on. I think we need to find out more about that specific kind of information. The second thing is that going on to further education doesn ' t necessarily mean that the student has done well in his first four years. There are plenty of students who get into the things that they want to do. And so success is not measured simply by going on to further education. But my general impression here again is that this year ' s graduating class is probably better satisfied with the educational experience they ' ve gotten here than it was, let ' s say, than the graduating class of maybe five years ago. And that ' s the general trend that I would like to see kept going. Cherry Tree: As you ' ve been here twenty years, we ' d like to know if you have any hints on picking up G.W. women. Elliott: Did you hear Bob Hope the other night? Ell give you Bob Hope’s answer to the end of the women question. At the end of the program, he said women are taking over the world, and so on. Then he said, in the story (as you recall), ' There was this beautiful young woman, absolutely beautiful, she married this fellow and after some months of living together, the man said to her one morning, ‘How could you be so beautiful and still so stupid? ' And she said, ‘Well, the Lord made me beautiful so 1 would be attractive to you, and He made me stupid so I would marry you. ' M 20 FEATURED FACULTY
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