Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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My teachers have given me an interest in the subjects I ' ve studied and the thinking process itself. — Kevin VVilhams Arts Sciences ' 82 Acedcmii c. 19

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Academics 18 Academics I

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A Message from the President One year ago, writing of my aspi- rations from Tuiane, I stated my personal commitment to insuring Tulane ' s primacy among Southern private universities and to securing its position as a national resource. In the intervening twelve months, there have been many encouraging developments at Tuiane, and I be- lieve that we are well on our way to achieving these goals. Through its Five Year Plan, Tu- iane has committed itself to work for dramatic improvement in vital areas desperately in need of atten- tion. Our faculty remains seriously un- derpaid, and our library acquisitions lag far behind comparable universi- ties; moreover, the University cur- rently suffers from a backlog of de- ferred maintenance totalling about $17 million. Over the next five years, there- fore, we are committed to raising the average faculty salary to the me- dian level of the American Associ- ation of Universities and we are committed to improving our li- brary ' s position relative to our peer institutions. We can point to some successes. No summary can capture an entire year. A broad stroke at best suggests the complete portrait. For some, I suspect the two high- lights of the year were a drubbing of LSU in football and in basketball four months later. For others, the highlights may have been visits to our campus by Jorge Luis Borges, Polish poet Czes- law Milosz, John Kenneth Gal- braith and William F Buckley; and Robert Massie, a noted biographical historian who taught and lectured at Tuiane during the fall semester. Tuiane is many different things to its alumni and friends, staff, stu- dents, faculty, and administration. The University is complex. Next year, we will shift our atten- tion to long-range concerns: What will Tuiane look like in the 1990 ' s and into the year 2000? This focus compels us to ask the most funda- mental questions about the nature of society and what it means to be educated. Such planning cannot be com- pleted in a month or in a year, or even in five years, but rather looking outward to insure that the institu- tion remains responsive to society ' s needs. 1 1 Eamon M. Kelly n n H M 1 KM HH m Hl mm HI n l I R - - H l ■■■■ ' - jtf 1 ■ ■ ' ' ■ f ' kW •jM H r jjRf T J m i Bf IK ' ' jH jMMj jl l M m Eamon Kelly, President of the University John Phillips, Chairman of the Board 20 President Board of Administrators I