University of Santa Clara - Redwood Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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..a kick somewhere or other... Part of my job is to work with the Deans of the five Schools and Colleges in general matters of curriculum and academic budget. Another part - and the one to which I give most of my time - could be called ' faculty and student relations. ' People for whom the rest of the system is not working right often come to me and we try to see if a kick some- where or other will get the machinery going again. The kick could come from a student, a faculty member, a depart ment chairman, a dean or other administrator, or on occasion from me. James Albertson, S.J. Academic Vice-President

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J ...listening to the warm... I am the most minor of the vice presidents. The only one who has been maintaining that his job should be abolished. (They ' ll probably take me up on it.) But maybe having no jurisdiction except over the secretary or a Committee, one has no special territory to defend, few axes to grind. University Relations are indefinable. It could be shere all the other areas at Santa Clara - academics, student welfare, finances and development meet. Or where they don ' t meet, but should, A unity being sundered is a problem. So, standing free, I have tried as a member of the Cabinet, this year to be an honest counsellor to the presi- dent. The potential for this school is big. What ' s been done here in ten years impresses me. But Santa Clara ' has miles to go before it sleeps. ' Day in and day out I keep pondering priorities. How to determine them?and which and why? Eight years as president of Ganzaga in Spokane and last year on the Campus of Utah State as a visiting pro- fessor in philosophy plus just ' listening to the warm ' convinces me that change is the raging phenomenon. It ' s not a question of whether, but what kind and how soon. Santa Clara either adapts with resiliency and almost abandon to this new headiness and moves to listening and shaping and being heard or it suciimbs to the passion for security. Then it could cease to be an effective force. It has not been decided yet which. The Christian university holds up in megalopolis the luminous vision of what man can become. It nourishes hope and helps faith beget the dreams men have always fed upon. Often I feel that being on the way, the right way, may be as important as getting there. John Leary, S.J. Vice-President for University Relations