My word for Willamette is...
- Community--WU provided me with many opportunities to be involved in worthwhile and fulfilling community projects. For example, I enjoyed helping other students as a member of residence hall government. Student government also allowed me to participate in significant projects that helped people outside of Willamette.
- —Vincent Pontier '01, M'03
- Balancing--Regardless of the set of skills and lacks one owns when arriving at Willamette, the balance with which a graduate departs, and the tools to re-balance as needed in the face of accelerating change, are a unique gift of the WU experience.
- —Steven Fullmer '78
- Continuation--Great education, inspiring and continuing into later life. Continuing into marriage with a WU athlete (later to become a NY Yankee minor leaguer). Continuing with son's marriage to another WU student. Son to continue as a college prof and Dr. of Criminology--author and scholar. So the WU tradition continues!
- —Esther Manning '36
Technology Innovation
In a global society, where ideas and even innovations move at the speed of light, technology literacy has joined reading, writing and critical thinking as a hallmark of a liberal education. Debra Ringold, Dean of the Atkinson Graduate School of Management, says, “Willamette must teach all of our students to be proficient users and critical evaluators of technology, now and in the future. Our University must be a place where the desire to innovate, the desire to develop technologies that enhance teaching, research and learning is encouraged. Of course, our graduates must understand today’s technology. More important is the development of their ability to learn, use and manage the technologies of tomorrow. We want our graduates to be influential participants in the technology decisions that profoundly affect today’s organizations.”
Willamette continues to need gifts that support technology on campus. If you are interested in helping us move to the next level with our technology resources, please contact us at development@willamette.edu or 866-777-8122.