As some of you know, I have expressed my concern at times over the “futuristic” look of the new Business and Engineering Center and tower in the quadrangle. I apologize for being a “doubter” of our new architecture style for these buildings.

Yes, they are different, but at the topping off ceremony, it dawned on me just how hypocritical my views really were.

We are preparing students for the future! The world is changing so rapidly now that the future our students face will likely be vastly different from what we see today.

I am probably the most vocal advocate for innovation and change on campus, but, sadly, I had not thought that way in terms of the new University architecture. I teach innovative thinking in the classroom, but I did not do what I taught when I looked at the designs for our two new buildings! I am sorry for that.

I have repented! True, we cannot blindly disregard the “traditional” in education or life, but we must embrace the future. While much of the future can be planned, we cannot be so dogmatic in our attachment to the past that we limit our thinking about future possibilities. I have caught the “vision” of our new architecture style.

Change is difficult to get used to at times, but change (like death and taxes) does come!

POST CONTRIBUTED BY: Dr. Les Nunn, associate professor of business law and chair of the Department of Accounting and Business Law.

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