Nearly 50 years ago, our founding Board of Regents was charged with a monumental undertaking: to set in motion the myriad tasks that would build a new university from the ground up.
In its first year of existence—which began with the inaugural meeting in September 1968—the Board had to help with the campus site selection, choose a president and other administrators, work out a plan to merge with a community college, establish a budget and find a way to finance the groundwork leading to the first classes.
These founding Regents taught us to be builders on behalf of our university and its future. They taught us how to care deeply about our students and how to weave them into every dimension of our work.
