CHANCELLOR’S FALL MESSAGE

Oct. 12, 2005

As we begin the 2005-06 academic year, I want to extend a warm welcome to all students, faculty and staff.

I am very excited to be here at this point in the University of California, Irvine’s evolution, and my inaugural year as chancellor. The future holds great promise for the university, as we continue to build on the outstanding accomplishments of my predecessors, and of the faculty, staff and students whose efforts have made UCI what it is today. It is a foundation I am fortunate and grateful to inherit.

In the coming year, and in years to come, we will continue to build upon these strengths. We will add to our graduate and professional programs to better serve the changing needs of society. We will grow and enhance our already outstanding undergraduate programs. And we will continue to increase our contributions regionally, nationally and internationally.

We will accomplish all this by working together as a community – a community that I would like to see embrace and exemplify these values:

Integrity: Telling the truth; saying what we mean and meaning what we say. Holding high personal standards and living our lives – on every level – in accordance with what we stand for. These values enhance the quality of our lives, and the quality of the lives of those around us.

Respect: Appreciation and compassion for one another, for people of different backgrounds and cultures and for ideas and positions that may be different from our own. In disagreement, a receptivity to the circumstances by which others have reached their own conclusions.

Intellectual Curiosity: The passionate, enthusiastic and continual expansion of our minds and our knowledge base. This is essential to the pursuit of research, learning and creativity.

And finally: Fun. We are given one life – we must do all we can to enjoy it to the fullest.

I look forward to working with all of you in the coming year.

Michael V. Drake, M.D.
Chancellor

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