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Vision forTaft Robert Falcetti
A Geologist’s Vision forTaft with Wold Chair Peter Saltsman Our children do not inherit our world, we borrow it from them. — Native American saying Taft’s mission is the “education of the whole student.” Can you talk about how you see the Wold Chair extending that mission? Please see page 27 for a description of the new Wold Chair. A I see Taft as a place that wants to make substantive long-term change, to become a role model as an institution and to serve the community at the cutting-edge of this emerging field of environmental stewardship. I believe this new chair will serve to build community awareness and individual interest in some of the most important issues of our time. The Wold Chair ensures that a Taft education takes into account global issues relating to environmental science and stewardship that impact businesses, local governing bodies and international relations. In every campus in the country, and in virtually every community around the world, people from farmers to biologists, and fishermen to hurricane hunters are thinking deeply about how climate change may be impacting their world. The school’s goals and vision are remarkably aligned with my own ideals. Coming from a background in applied earth and environmental science, I wanted to lend a fresh perspective to an educational institution with an excellent science curriculum. Based on my thesis research at Harvard, leadership from the top is critical to furthering on-campus initiatives, and here was a well-established school intent on making intentional and well-thought strides in the direction I was interested in moving. Given the rigor of the academic program offered at Taft, this would be the kind of school where intelligent students and faculty could reflect upon how best to serve their community and the world. Here was a place that would create the kind of local, regional, national and global leaders who would take on significant roles in adapting the world toward a newer, better and more environmentally aware future. Taft Bulletin Winter 2012 23
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