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DC Scores, in Similar Fashion, the GW Community for Several Years Has Bright Beginnings, and Martha’S Table ON A Vision 2021 EMBARKING on a DECADE of TRANSFORMATION In 2021, the George Washington University will celebrate its 200th anniversary. GW President Steven Knapp details the dynamic changes that will prepare the university for that milestone. George Washington University Museum Law School Science and Engineering Hall Gelman Library School of Public Health and Health Services will oversee it. Our Career Service Task Force which will finally give our university library the Q You’ve been calling 2011-12 developed a model of career preparation that grand and welcoming entrance it deserves! a “pivotal” year. Why? will begin that process earlier in a student’s Finally, we will soon break ground on program of study. And, with the help and President Steven Knapp: Well, in the GW Museum, which will incorporate the the first place, 2012 is the centennial of the advice of the Board of Trustees, we began a historic Woodhull House and contain the establishment of our main campus in Foggy strategic review of our athletics program. One Textile Museum and the Washingtoniana Bottom, its third and I hope its final location! result was the recruitment of Patrick Nero, our Collection of Albert H. Small. The new We are using the occasion to celebrate all that it new director of athletics and recreation, who is museum will attract visitors and scholars means to be a university located at the heart of deeply committed to supporting the academic from around the world and will provide this nation’s capital. At the same time, we begin as well as the athletic success of our student wide-ranging opportunities for students in this year a decade of transformation leading athletes. We will be unveiling the athletics anthropology, history, and museum studies, up to our bicentennial in 2021. We are hiring strategic plan early this year. among other disciplines. new faculty and building academic facilities across the university, and we are supporting Q You mentioned that we are Q How do these changes those efforts by bringing in external resources continuing to build new strengthen GW as an more rapidly than at any previous time in the facilities; what specific academic institution? university’s history. changes will we see this year? SK: Improved infrastructure supports our Under the provost’s leadership, we are SK: We broke ground on our new Science recruitment not only of stronger students developing our first strategic plan in a decade. and Engineering Hall in October, and the but also of world-class teachers and The Strategic Plan for Academic Excellence excavation is well under way. This half-million- scholars. A splendid example is Nobel goes all the way back to 2002, and since square-foot building, due for completion by laureate Ferid Murad, who joined us last then every one of our schools has welcomed early 2015, will be the largest academic facility spring and has already set up the biomedical a new dean. We also have a new team of we have ever built—and certainly the largest laboratory in which he intends to work vice presidents, only two of whom were science building ever likely to be built within toward his second Nobel Prize! I’m very glad here when we wrote the last plan. The time six blocks of the White House! It will nearly to note that Dr. Murad is a member of our is right to take stock of our unique strengths double the amount of research and teaching cadre of University Professors, who combine and opportunities and set a course to achieve space we have for our science and engineering groundbreaking research with the teaching the world-class stature that I am sure this disciplines and will enhance collaboration by of undergraduates. university is poised to attain. bringing all the relevant departments together under one roof. On the Mount Vernon Campus, Q And the end goal? Isn’t GW also engaged in we have completed renovations to Ames Hall, Q SK: It’s simple, really: to be the university new fundraising? which will house state-of-the-art classrooms, where students most want to study, faculty student gathering spaces, and offices. Those most want to teach, and where scholars SK: We are actively exploring the possibility of launching a comprehensive fundraising are going to be some of the most beautiful serve the nation and the world by combining campaign. The fact that we are simultaneously classrooms anywhere on the East Coast, theory and practice in ways unmatched by developing a strategic plan will give us an unusual looking right out over the Potomac River! any other institution. With the support of our opportunity to make sure if we do go forward This spring we will break ground for the quarter-million alumni, the unique opportunities with a full-scale campaign that our fundraising new home of the School of Public Health and afforded by our location, and the inspiring goals dovetail with our institutional priorities. Health Services. There is a plan to expand example of our namesake, I have no doubt that the Law School, perhaps above the new the achievement of these aspirations is, sooner Q What about the planning underground garage we are constructing on or later, within our grasp. And the coming you did with faculty, staff, G Street, and we are developing additional decade will move us steadily closer to and students last year? space for the School of Business. This year we that destination. Important changes resulted from those will also begin a major renovation of Gelman SK: For a list of events happening during GW’s efforts. We created an Office of Diversity Library. Among other changes, we will move celebration of 100 years in Foggy Bottom, and Inclusion and recruited Terri Harris Reed the library entrance from the ground floor on visit www.gwu.edu/~fb100. from Princeton as the new vice provost who H Street to an elevated location on Kogan Plaza, 3 in GW D.C. Beautifulin the Days Neighborhood GW’s signature community events and year-round activities bring students and neighbors together. By Mary Dempsey ach morning, Graham Galka wakes up with the Kennedy Center for the annual neighborhood festival, which includes booths by on one side and GW on the other. more than 100 restaurants, information tables from D.C. businesses, “Foggy Bottom is great because of its diversity and its nonprofits, community groups, and city agencies, face painting for Eopportunities,” says Mr. Galka, BA ’08, who still lives in Foggy Bottom. children, free concerts, and dance performances. “This neighborhood is near the White House, the State Department, and “Our university has a strong commitment to our community and the university is right here.” how our students and neighbors interact,” says Britany Waddell, GW’s Mr. Galka, who co-founded a tanning salon and spa in Foggy director of community relations. “Volunteering and working on these Bottom when he was a student, now represents his apartment complex events instills character in our students. They come to realize they are in the Advisory Neighborhood Commission, the local group that advises a part of the community, and Foggy Bottom is not just some place they the District government on issues affecting neighborhoods. come to and then leave.” Mr. Galka is certainly an involved neighbor, and he’s not alone. Each An integral part of the block party is FRIENDS, a neighborhood year, students experience what it truly means to be a part of one of D.C.’s group that emerged in 2002 as a result of community discussions. Since most historic and vibrant neighborhoods. then, FRIENDS membership has grown to more than 400. Half the meetings address neighborhood issues and the other half are designed The GW community actively participates in the Foggy Bottom/ around social activities. West End Neighborhood Block Party, sponsored by FRIENDS. The annual event has drawn thousands of students, neighbors, and other GW’s annual Senior Prom, a collaborative event involving GW’s community members for the past 10 years. Office of Government and Community Relations, GW’s Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service, D.C.’s Department of Aging and “From the student perspective, I think it’s a great day,” says Jake Department of Parks and Recreation, and even members of the D.C. City Miner, a student whose internship in GW’s Office of Government and Council, has been one of the most popular neighborhood events. Community Relations included work on the block party. “At the block party you see the power of being in a city and how you can be a part of On prom night each spring, seniors arrive from all over the District, bringing people together.” some on transportation provided by their housing complexes and others, like residents of St. Mary’s Court in Foggy Bottom, aboard shuttle Neighbors, students, and university staff all participate in planning buses provided by the university. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 4 Steve Timlin Graham Galka William Atkins William Atkins teve Timlin was raking leaves f you want to be involved in the outside his house when a man arts, in academia, take advantage walking by in a suit called out of cultural offerings, it’s all right “hello.”S That man was Michael Akin, who Ihere,” says Graham Galka, BA ’08, who at the time, served as GW’s community lives in the Columbia Plaza apartments relations director. Mr. Timlin jokingly in Foggy Bottom. “And it’s a beautiful, asked if he wanted to help him rake. clean, and safe neighborhood, a vibrant neighborhood.” To Mr. Timlin’s surprise, Mr. Akin took him up on the invitation and raked In early 2008, Mr.
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