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New School University: Pres. Kerrey Reflects on 9/11

Excerpts of President Robert Kerrey's Commencement Address:

"Today we grant 892 undergraduate and 784 graduate degrees to students from 100 countries and all continents on the face of the earth except Antarctica. At the Graduate Faculty our graduates have learned to understand what it means to be human and to help us understand what is going on between human beings throughout the world. At Parsons School of Design our graduates have gained the ability to design solutions to human problems and to create art which helps us understand our humanity. At Eugene Lang College our students have gotten a progressive education in small, seminar style classes. At the Actors Studio Drama school our students now have the skills to write, direct and act the stories that allow us to connect with the pathos and humor of our lives. At Mannes College of Music our students have prepared for orchestral and operatic careers in order to bring music's unique power into our lives. At the Jazz and Contemporary Music Program our students have acquired a thorough grounding in a special and endangered idiom which has the capacity to change the way we feel about our lives. At the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy our students have thoroughly prepared themselves to solve the problems of modern urban civil society. And, finally, at The New School our students have juggled careers and classes and faced other obstacles in their pursuit of greater knowledge and richer lives.

"Students aren't the only ones facing challenges at our university. This is my second commencement and I have learned a lot since last year. Most of all I have learned how much love there is between the students, faculty and staff of New School University. I have seen that love expressed by men and women who were willing to go above and beyond the call after the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center. The men and women who have chosen to work and teach at this university simply decided to work a little harder, to sustain the effort through physical fatigue and in short do the one thing that has confounded skeptics over and over again: They refused to give up.

Let me stop my address and gaze across the faces of great accomplishment and promise, and say: I am proud of your success, hopeful for your future, and prayerful for the courage you will need to carry you through the fascinating disappointments of every good life. Best wishes to you all.”

Honorary degrees were presented to investment banker and New School Trustee Henry H. Arnold; President and CEO of Thirteen/WNET William F. Baker; Middle Eastern historian Bernard Lewis; jazz singer Abbey Lincoln; Chairman of the September 11th Fund Franklin A. Thomas; and Chairman and CEO of Tishman Realty & Construction and New School Trustee John L. Tishman.#

 

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