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Good morning.

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Like to

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welcome all of you to the University
of North Florida, I am Pierre

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Allaire, vice president
for institutional advancement.

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You've been in, but

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you've been invited today
to help us celebrate

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a new beginning
in the College of Arts and Sciences,

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one that starts
with the physical structure, but

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ultimately will lead to much, much more ,
as you'll hear later from our speakers.

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Before I begin, I would like to introduce
some special guests.

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We have from our board of trustees
Willie Gonzalez,

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Carol Thompson supposed to be here,
who is our chair, and Judy Solano.

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You'll also hear from Tom Ferron

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and Ann Hicks a little later,
who are also trustees.

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We have members of our Foundation Board

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of our Alumni Association

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of our Osprey Club,
which is our Athletic Booster Group,

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as well as the Dean's Advisory Boards
and the Student Affairs

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Council Advisory Board.

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We have the firm, the

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architectural firm of Smith McCrary
and Tom McCrary is here

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and also Barry Allred,
who is the CEO of Elkins

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Constructors,
the firm putting up the building.

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We have faculty, staff and administrators,
but most importantly,

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we have our students and you'll see them
walking back and forth as classes change.

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At this time, I'd like to introduce
our president, John Delaney.

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[audience clapping].

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Thank you for coming out,

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and the reason I am wearing this shirt
today, as opposed to a coat and tie,

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is because I get to get up on that backhoe
in a few minutes and

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it's every nine year
old's dream to do that.

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And I was the forklift plant champion
at the Atlas

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cement company many, many years ago
while I was working through college.

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And the reason I was the forklift
champion is because I didn't

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want to be on the end of the conveyor belt
stacking cement bags.

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And the reason
I am no longer driving a forklift

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is because it's hot outside in the summer
and decided to go a different way.

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But want to give greetings to everybody

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for coming out today because this is an a
another important step forward.

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I was trying to add up the hundreds
of thousands of square feet

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of classroom and professors offices
that we're going to be adding

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in about a 24 month period
between about a year ago and next year.

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And I think we're in the third
of 1,000,000 or so category.

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That's an immense, immense expansion
of the of the space here on campus

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and several weeks ago stood about 100
feet back behind us and to the left

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to announce really a ratification

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of our branding here,
which is the really kind of find

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a way to communicate
why UNF is so distinct and different.

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And it frankly dates back
to when the founding faculty began

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to establish an approach
to dealing with students and classes here.

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And that is really to focus on

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the students, the learning experience
and that's what our faculty

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are just predominantly excellent at
is that its teaching.

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They want these students to learn.

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They'll visit with
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take didn't hold there.

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That's the problem.

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Problem.

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Mr. Mershon with.

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Yeah, OK.

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Duct tape usually works well to.

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All right.

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Yeah, make sure you continue to donate
to public broadcasting, by the way.

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[audience laughing].

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And one of our commitments

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is to continue to maintain
and ultimately reduce the class.

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The class ratio, really,
the ratio of the faculty to the students.

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Two years ago was 22 to one.

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Last year, 21 to one.

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We're down to 20 to one this year.

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We've added 36
new professors to the faculty this year.

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An even larger amount last year.

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Almost one
fifth of our faculty are essentially new

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and when completed in a year,
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is a number of classrooms for the students

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that are going to work
with some of those faculty members,

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but especially those that are
in the disciplines such as sociology,

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anthropology,
political science and criminal justice.

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Now that we know the buildings
don't teach.

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But we do believe that we have to help
create a learning environment

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for the faculty
as they continue to pass on knowledge

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and to make those experiences easy
to learn and easy to teach.

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Classrooms are going to be
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faculty offices on the floors above that.

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Our board of directors approved
transferring some money from another side

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of the ledger to put more money into this
building than the state legislature

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originally authorized to enhance
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and also in terms of the facilities
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The classrooms are going to have
the latest teaching, the latest

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technology,
including wireless communications,

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smart classrooms,
as they're described nowadays,

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and the Office of the Dean
is going to be on the second floor of what

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we are hoping to continue to do is to add
signature buildings, in other words,

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trying to make our buildings
as near to a work of art as we can get.

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The buildings are going to be with us
for many, many, many, many years.

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So if we present them,
we want them to do it right.

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Separately, from that,
we're going to be going back around

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and trying to enhance
the existing facilities over time.

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We're really excited

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about the possibilities for this
first class educational facility,

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not only for the classroom instruction,
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outreach activities that are very much
a part of our faculty lives here.

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They all research,
they all do scholarship work,

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and they also are involved in service
activities with the community at large.

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And our mission as a public university
takes into account those two things,

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as well as what I mentioned up front,
which is the the focus

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on a relationship between faculty members
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The last thing I want to mention before
turning it back over to Pierre

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is what we call transformational
learning experiences, which is actually

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a phrase that was coined by our provost,
Mark Workman, a number of years ago.

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And what we're trying to do here
is to establish the benefit

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an opportunity to have an experience
that can transform a student's life.

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And you can get that in a college setting
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it's something that really is a life
changing exposure or experience,

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perhaps sociology
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to see how other governments and cultures
handle their social issues.

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Criminal justice
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Yard to study Britain's approach
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Those kinds of things
that really make an experience

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at a university like UNF unique.

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We have envious student
teacher ratios, state of the art

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facilities, a incredibly dedicated faculty

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establishing now opportunities
for unique learning experiences.

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And this is about quality education
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our Board of Trustees is established to
excellence to focus on the fundamentals,

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to be relevant to the world at large,
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to be able to demonstrate
that we've added value to the community.

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Provost Workman,
you've got a huge responsibility

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as the guardian of all that surrounds

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the building, and I know you
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to enhance the level of education
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Well, that back to Pierre and thank you.

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[audience clapping].

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Thank you, John,
for your thoughtful comments

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and your genuine enthusiasm for what
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to our campus will bring to our students
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And now I'd like to introduce Ann Hicks
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member, chairs
the Education and Policy Committee.

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She is an alumna, a past
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and a very good friend.

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Ann. [audience clapping].

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Thank you, Pierre.

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I'm particularly honored to be here today
representing the board of trustees.

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And it's no coincidence that I'm here.

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I believe that every trustee has
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and mine is decidedly
the College of Arts and Sciences.

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First,
let me express as a trustee our enthusiasm

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over the construction
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It represents
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who will be served, but more importantly,
it represents growth

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in the quality of education
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The building,
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ten year master plan,
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as an institution
serving the First Coast and beyond.

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The Board of Trustees is extremely proud
of this university and we're thrilled

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about the addition of this magnificent
classroom and laboratory building.

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Now, we look forward to seeing it
filled with students

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going about the serious
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Thank you for asking me to be here today.

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It's a great day.

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[audience clapping].

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Thank you, Ann.

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And now I'd like to ask our acting
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Workman, to share his thoughts.

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Mark is a outstanding academician

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and will provide great leadership
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Mark.

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[audience clapping.] Thank you.

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This is a very exciting day.

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I would like to elaborate for a moment
upon the president's comment

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that this will be a signature building
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The rapid growth of the college has placed
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on space,
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This building will go a long way
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providing our students and faculty
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and dedicated environment
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interests in the social sciences.

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For our itinerant social sciences faculty,
this building will provide a home

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after years of living in a diaspora
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to the science and engineering
building to locations elsewhere on campus.

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The college's inviting office
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beautiful new quarters in this building,
appropriate to the central role

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that advising plays
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The Dean's office will move
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not on the second floor,
but in fact on the third floor,

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where its staff will be better able
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and where after the enormous growth,

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of the

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past decade, there will be adequate
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to track the burgeoning
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And I should add that
the relocation of the deans

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and advising offices will provide
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for those landlocked departments remaining

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behind in building eight.

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All these practical improvements
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this new building has an even greater

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symbolic significance for the college.

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Think for a moment about the phrase
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is based on the premise

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that the world is rule-ordered
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That the phenomena
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and rational and knowable.

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The social, on the other hand,
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in forms of activity
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and sensible justice
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which do not readily lend themselves
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classification or comprehension.

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In fact, social behavior results

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as much from conflict as from cooperation

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and from individual idiosyncrasy,

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as much as from collective conformity.

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As often as not the social strains
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reasons, it is appropriate
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is bracketed by the Fine Arts Center
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a space where one can explore new ways
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the inexhaustible,
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and the science and engineering
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A space dedicated to finding patterns

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in the apparent diversity of life.

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Situated between them physically,

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in a sense,
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also will be situated
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providing what I would like to suggest
will be not just a physical,

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but as importantly, a symbolic center
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among whose primary purposes, is the study

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and interpretation of
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Let me return to the building

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not as an intellectual,
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Total square footage will be 63,000

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feet square feet and will house

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auditorium classrooms,
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We expect to open next fall.

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This will be the first green
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in Jacksonville, according to the US
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The organization has created
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Design Rating System, which measures
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I know our president is proud of this
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since he has strong environmental values.

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Thank you,
President Delaney, for your leadership

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in the conservation of resources, energy
efficient systems

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and campus beautification,
using native plant species.

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And to our students, you have my word
that the faculty will provide you

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with the best educational opportunities
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You are indeed the reason
we are here today.

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Thank you very much.

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[audience clapping].

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Thank you, Mark.

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Our final speaker is Tom Ferran.

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Tom is president
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He also wears the hat as a trustee.

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Student representative on the board

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is a junior and a political science major.

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And so this building will be home to him
next year.

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Also, he is undergoing what was described

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earlier
as a transformational learning experience.

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When you consider that he oversees
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and also has a budget that well exceeds $2

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million, that's an opportunity
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And Tom is doing a great job in that role.

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I present to you, Tom Ferran.

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[audience clapping].

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Good morning, everyone.

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It's truly a blessing, honor and privilege
to be here with you all today

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as our university embarks
on a new strive towards greatness.

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As student body president,
I can say that it cannot be

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a more exciting time
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where the student union, Greek housing

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and additional on campus
housing all in the master plan.

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The construction of new social science
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a teaser of what is going to be happening
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As a student of political science,

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I considered the new social science

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building will provide students
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share ideas, and most importantly,
it will foster an environment

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that is conducive to individual
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Students are very excited
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and we cannot wait for its completion
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Thank you.

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[audience clapping].

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Thank you, Tom.

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And now we're going to ask our president
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his hard hat and roll up his sleeves
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equipment
to conduct the official groundbreaking.

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While he's getting ready,
I do want to thank everyone

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for being here today.

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[audience

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clapping].

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Not much dirt,

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but we got it [audience laughing].

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All righty.

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That's right, that's right.

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Yeah, this is the first green

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building on our campus, but ultimately
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And what that means is that we're using
all kinds of techniques

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to preserve energy, reduce energy use over
time to reduce water use over time.

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And so it's kind of a different
kind of insulation on it.

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The roofing is different, those sorts of.

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We're paying a little bit of premium
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But over time,
we're really getting back to electric.

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Yeah, from here on out,
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talking